Filemail

Filemail has been doing one thing for years: sending large files quickly without making the recipient sign up for anything. The 2026 free tier handles transfers up to 5GB with files available for 7 days, and includes antivirus scanning on the receiving end.

Paid plans take it considerably further. The Individual Pro tier at $12/month bumps the transfer cap to 250GB, retains files for 30 days, and adds 1TB of storage with unlimited recipients. The Business tier at $18/user/month allows unlimited file sizes and stores files indefinitely.

The Enterprise managed file transfer plan at $48/month adds 5TB of per-user storage and the kind of audit and compliance features bigger companies need. For podcasters, the typical use case is moving 20-40GB of multi-track raw audio between a recording session and an editor.

Filemail handles that comfortably and the recipient gets a clean download link without needing an account, which matters when your guest is a 70-year-old academic who's never used Dropbox. The trade-off is that this isn't a workspace.

There's no folder structure, no collaborative review, no version history, just transfer. If you want to host shared assets long-term, you still need Box, Google Drive, or Dropbox.

End-to-end encryption, 2FA, and password protection are standard on paid plans, which addresses the security objection some guests will have to email attachments. Yearly billing knocks two months off.