Share documents online, free for educators
WeTransfer makes it straightforward to send course materials, research papers, assignments, and any other documents to students, colleagues, or collaborators. Sign up for a free account, upload your files, and share a download link or deliver straight to an inbox. Recipients open and download everything without creating an account.
The simplest, free way to share
Teachers, lecturers, and students regularly need to move documents between people who have no shared system, no common cloud drive, and no time to set one up. WeTransfer works entirely from a browser, so there is nothing to install on either end, and your PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and presentations arrive exactly as you sent them, with no compression or quality changes. Every transfer produces a unique download link you can paste into a learning management system, a group chat, or an email thread, and any number of people can open it. If a document contains sensitive material, you can restrict access to a specific list of email addresses or add a password to the transfer, both available on a free account. When you need transfers to stay live past the default window, want to recover a link after it expires, or prefer to deliver files under an institutional name and branding, upgrading to Ultimate gives you those options without complicating the day-to-day experience.
What makes WeTransfer different
Our features are designed to minimize how much of your data we — or anyone else — can access, so you can keep what's yours, yours.
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Everything you need
Give people simple tools, and they'll do extraordinary things. Ultra-fast file transfers, built-in customization, easier team collaboration. That's the magic of WeTransfer.
Move your ideas forward
Share content with a unique link, give anyone a free pass to send you 200 GB files, and stay in control of transfers — even after you hit send.
Collaboration tools for teams of all sizes
With tools designed to enhance collaboration, get everyone in your team talking and moving as one, without disrupting their workflow.
Share with confidence and security
From password protection to file encryption, WeTransfer has all the built-in security features you need to safeguard your work.
FAQs
All your questions answered.
WeTransfer supports any file type, so educators can send PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, CSV files, RTFs, and more without any conversion or reformatting. Files are transferred in their original format, so the recipient opens exactly what was uploaded. You can also bundle multiple documents into a folder upload and recipients get the original folder structure intact.
No. Anyone who receives your transfer link can open and download the files without signing up for anything. Only the person sending documents needs a free WeTransfer account, which takes moments to create. This makes it practical for distributing materials to large groups of students or external collaborators who are unlikely to have a WeTransfer account of their own.
Yes. Every transfer generates a unique download link with no limit on how many people can open it, so you can post it to a class forum, a learning management system, or a group chat and the whole cohort can download from the same link. If you prefer to send directly to inboxes, free accounts support up to 10 email recipients per transfer, and paid plans raise that to 50.
You can add a password to any transfer before sending, so only recipients who know the password can access the files. For tighter control, restricted access lets you specify exactly which email addresses are permitted to download, and anyone else who opens the link is blocked. Both options are available on free accounts and take a few seconds to configure.
A free account allows up to 10 transfers and 3 GB of total uploads per rolling 30-day window, and transfer links stay active for up to 3 days. For most one-off document sharing, that is plenty. Upgrading to Ultimate makes sense when you need transfers to stay live for longer, such as distributing materials students return to throughout a semester, or when you want to recover a link that has already expired, which Ultimate supports even retroactively. Ultimate also lets you set up a branded page with a custom URL, useful for institutions or educators who distribute files regularly and want a consistent, professional presence.