Share educational videos free, straight from your browser
WeTransfer is a straightforward way for educators, students, and institutions to share video content without software or subscriptions. Sign up for a free account, upload your video files, and send them to anyone via email or a shareable link. The person receiving them can watch and download without creating an account.
The simplest, free way to share
Teachers distributing lecture recordings, students submitting video assignments, and training teams sharing course content all have the same basic need: get the file to the right person without it being mangled along the way. WeTransfer sends every video in its original quality, with no re-encoding and no resolution loss, so a 4K lecture capture or a high-resolution tutorial arrives exactly as recorded. Recipients can preview video directly in the browser before downloading, which is handy when someone needs to confirm they have the right version before committing to a large file. If you're distributing to a whole class via a shared link, there's no limit on how many people can open it, and adding a password keeps access limited to the people you intend. For institutions or educators who need deliveries that stay live beyond the default window, want to recover a link after it expires, or prefer to distribute content under their own branding, upgrading to Ultimate handles all of that.
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 and send video files from any browser, no software required. You can deliver them straight to a student's email or share a single download link that the whole class can open. Students never need to create an account to watch or download the files.
No. WeTransfer sends files without any re-encoding or compression, so a 4K lecture recording or a high-resolution tutorial arrives exactly as you exported it. There are no resolution changes and no artifacts introduced in transit, which matters when video quality is part of the learning experience.
Yes. Recipients can watch video files directly in the browser without downloading anything first, which is useful when students need to confirm they have the right assignment file or when bandwidth is limited. Previews are supported for common video formats including MP4 and MOV files up to 300 MB, and viewers can also leave comments and mark favorites on individual files in the transfer.
On the free plan you can send up to 10 transfers per rolling 30-day window with up to 3 GB total, and transfers expire after a maximum of 3 days. That works well for individual assignments or short clips, but for longer course videos, ongoing delivery throughout a semester, or links that need to stay active beyond a few days, upgrading to Ultimate removes the transfer size cap, lets you set a custom expiry or keep transfers live indefinitely, and adds the ability to recover expired transfers even retroactively.
Yes, on any plan you can lock a transfer behind a password so only recipients who know it can access the files. You can also restrict downloads to a specific list of email addresses, meaning students outside your class cannot open the link even if they have it. Download tracking is also available on all plans, letting you see exactly who has downloaded the video and when.