Share PDFs for free with anyone in education
WeTransfer makes it simple to send course materials, research papers, assignments, and any other PDF 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. No software needed, and recipients open everything without creating an account.
The simplest, free way to share
Teachers, lecturers, and students spend enough time on admin without fighting clunky file-sharing tools. WeTransfer lets you send PDFs from any browser in seconds, with files arriving exactly as they left you, no compression, no formatting changes. Every transfer gets its own unique download link you can post into a learning management system, a group chat, or an email thread, with no cap on how many people can open it. Before downloading, recipients can preview PDFs directly in the browser, which is handy when students want to confirm they have the right document before saving it to their device. Free accounts also include password protection and restricted access, so sensitive materials like exam papers or confidential reports stay with the right people. When you need transfers to stay live beyond the default window, or want to recover a link after it expires, upgrading to Ultimate gives you those options as your needs grow.
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.
Yes. A free WeTransfer account lets you upload PDFs and share them via a download link or send them directly to recipients' inboxes. Students can download everything without creating a WeTransfer account, which removes a common barrier in education settings where not everyone will bother signing up for yet another platform.
Link transfers have no recipient limit, so you can post a single download link in your course portal, virtual classroom, or group chat and the whole class can access it. If you prefer email delivery, free accounts support up to 10 email recipients per transfer, while paid plans raise that to 50.
You can lock any transfer behind a password, sharing the code separately from the link, so only students who need access can download the files. You can also restrict a transfer to a specific list of email addresses, meaning only verified recipients matching your list can open it. Both options are available on free accounts.
No. WeTransfer sends files without altering them, so your PDFs arrive with the same formatting, fonts, and layout you uploaded. There is no re-encoding or quality loss, which matters when sharing formatted lesson plans, research papers, or official documents where layout accuracy is important.
On the free plan, transfers expire after up to 3 days, so time-sensitive distribution like sending materials before a lecture works well, but longer-running access is limited. If you regularly need PDFs to stay available for weeks or semesters at a time, or want to recover a link after it has already expired, upgrading to Ultimate lets you set a custom expiry or keep transfers live indefinitely.