For replacing a file-transfer link
Sending client photos without a countdown timer
WeTransfer moves a file. It was never built to deliver a shoot, and its free tier keeps getting smaller while the clock on it stays the same three days.
Why a transfer link is the wrong tool for a shoot
A WeTransfer link on the free tier is gone in three days whether or not the client downloaded it, capped at 3 GB per transfer, and limited to individual, non-commercial use. Send a wedding at the end of a long week and there is a real chance the couple opens the email after the link has already expired, with no grace period and no way to extend it after the fact.
What arrives on the other end is a download button and a file list, not something that reads as delivered work. And in December 2025 WeTransfer discontinued Portals, the feature that let photographers collect files back from clients, so even people who built a workflow around it have had that workflow taken away.
No expiry clock
A Photobari link just stays up. There's no 3-day countdown on a free account; you can set an optional expiry date yourself if a job genuinely needs one, but nothing disappears on its own.
A gallery, not a file list
What a client opens is a gallery with a cover, sections and captions in your own look, not a generic download page with your files listed by name.
Full resolution, not a transfer-sized preview
Every screen, phones included, gets a visually lossless image up to 2560px, and one tap downloads the untouched original. There is no separate compressed viewer standing in for the real file.
One zip that doesn't fail partway through
Downloads are streamed ZIPs with exact sizes, split into parts, so a large delivery doesn't fail three-quarters of the way through the way a big transfer sometimes does.
No account needed to open it
A client taps the link and sees the photos. No sign-up, no email capture. Add a password or PIN yourself if a delivery should be private.
Nothing takes a cut, and nothing trains on your work
There is no store here, so there is no commission on anything — there is nothing to take a percentage from. And your photographs are never used to train an AI model, on any plan, not opted-in and not for an “internal” one.
Where Photobari is the wrong tool
If what you actually need is to collect files back from a client, Photobari doesn't do that today: it delivers your finished work, it doesn't have anything like WeTransfer's discontinued Portals for gathering files from someone else. If that's the job, this isn't the tool for it yet.
If you're moving one huge RAW folder or a 4K video file to someone who will download it once, today, a plain file transfer is still the more direct tool. Photobari is built for a delivery a client comes back to, not a single one-off handoff.
The comparisons say where each alternative genuinely wins.
Questions
Is Photobari a replacement for WeTransfer?
For delivering finished client photos, yes: a Photobari share link doesn't expire on a countdown, opens as a gallery rather than a file list, and serves full resolution on every device. It is not a general file-transfer tool and it does not collect files back from clients the way WeTransfer's now-discontinued Portals did.
Does a Photobari link expire like a WeTransfer link does?
No. There is no automatic expiry. A link you send keeps working until you choose to revoke it or set an optional expiry date yourself.
Can I password-protect a delivery?
Yes. You can add a password or PIN to any share link if a delivery needs to stay private, and revoke the link entirely once a job is done.
Can clients send files back to me through Photobari?
Not today. Photobari delivers your finished work to clients; it doesn't have a feature for collecting files back from them.
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