Share a folder.
Not your data.
Turn any folder on your Mac into a live link. No upload, no cloud storage, no account.
Free beta · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Mac App Store planned
End-to-end encrypted
How it works
From your Mac to their browser, and the folder never leaves your Mac.
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Pick a folder
Right-click any folder in Finder and choose Share with ordner.link, or add it from the menu bar.
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Send the link
The key sits after the # in the link. Browsers never send that part to a server, so only the people you send it to can open the folder.
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Let people in
Visitors type their name and you get a notification. Allow them once, always, or not at all.
Open it in the browser
Visitors see the folder as it is right now: photos, videos and documents with previews, single files or everything as ZIP. No app, no account.
Made for the folders you actually send
Big files, work in progress and private papers: where a live link beats an upload.
- Photographers
80 GB, no upload.
Set Who can open it to Anyone and send the link tonight. Your client previews the shots in the browser and downloads favourites or everything as ZIP while your Mac is awake and online.
Learn more(Photographers) - Video editors
Cut 3 is in the folder.
Export into the shared folder, and when the export finishes your client's link has it. No new link, no waiting for an upload.
Learn more(Video editors) - Architects and construction
The plans on site are never out of date.
Keep the drawings in a shared folder that never expires. Save a new revision and the trades open it on their phones, while your Mac is awake and online.
Learn more(Architects and construction) - Advisers and lawyers
“Send me your documents.”
One folder and upload-only link for each client. Files reach your Mac without an account or app, and clients can't browse what is already in the folder.
Learn more(Advisers and lawyers) - Recruiters and HR
Applications in a folder, not an inbox.
One folder and upload-only link for each job. Applicants send files without an account or app, can't browse the folder, and everything lands on your Mac.
Learn more(Recruiters and HR) - Flat hunters
A link to your payslips, for seven days.
Give landlords a link with a password, approve each request yourself, and the link ends after seven days. Anything they downloaded stays with them.
Learn more(Flat hunters)
More use cases
- Freelancers and agencies
The client sees today's version.
Share the real project folder instead of keeping a copy up to date. When the job ends, stop sharing and the link goes dark.
Learn more(Freelancers and agencies) - Clubs and associations
A club folder without member logins.
Set Who can open it to Anyone and members open minutes, forms and photos in the browser, while your Mac is awake and online.
Learn more(Clubs and associations) - Teachers and juries
20 submissions, one link.
Use an upload-only link and set Who can open it to Anyone. Work lands in one folder on your Mac, visitors can't browse it, and up to 20 can be connected at once.
Learn more(Teachers and juries) - Bands and podcasters
Stems, not attachments.
Share whole sessions that email would never take, and drop the next take into the same folder. Bandmates can upload theirs too.
Learn more(Bands and podcasters) - Families
Grandma needs no app.
Set Who can open it to Anyone and the holiday photos open in the browser. No account to create, no login to explain over the phone.
Learn more(Families) - You
Your Mac, on your phone.
Share a folder with yourself, set it to never expire and choose Always Allow once. It opens in your phone's browser while your Mac is awake and online, with no cloud storage in between.
Learn more(You)
Everything a shared folder needs
End-to-end encrypted
Files, names and folder listings are encrypted on your Mac and only decrypted in the visitor's browser.
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Live, not a copy
Visitors see the folder as it is right now. Stop sharing and the link goes dark.
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Nothing to install
Visitors preview photos and videos, download files or whole folders as ZIP, right in the browser.
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Collect files too
Turn a share into an inbox. Visitors upload and tidy up what they added, never your files.
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You decide who gets in
Approve each visitor, or remember trusted devices so they come straight in.
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Password protection
Add a password that your Mac checks itself. Too many wrong guesses lock the link for a while.
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Links that expire
Pick 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days. After that the link stops working by itself.
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Hide your IP address
Route a share through a relay so visitors never see where your Mac is. The relay only passes on encrypted data.
What our server sees
Our server introduces your Mac and the visitor, then steps aside. Everything that matters travels end-to-end encrypted, directly between the two.
This is the complete list of what it receives and keeps.
- Share ID
x7Kq9mT2random, says nothing about you- Share public key
q3Z8vN1dK0…a fresh key per share, proves the owner may update it- Dates
created, last online, expireskept after you delete a share, removed once it has been offline for 365 days- IP addresses
203.0.113.24to connect the devices; kept in memory for up to an hour for rate limits, never written to disk- Connection setup
candidate 198.51.100.7 udppassed on, not stored- Key
- never sent
- File and folder names
- never sent
- File contents
- never sent
- Visitor names
- never sent
- Passwords
- never sent
Good to know
Yes. Files come straight from your Mac, so the link works while it is awake and online. Visitors see when it is not.
No. They open the link in their browser and type their name. That's it.
Not for sharing: files are streamed, not uploaded first, so a folder can be as large as your disk, with up to 10,000 items in one folder. Uploads go up to 10 GB per file, and you can set less. Some private browser windows limit downloads to 500 MB (100 MB on phones and tablets).
Nothing. ordner.link is free: no subscription, no account.
Not yet. For now you download it from this website, and the Mac App Store is planned for later.
Those services keep a copy of your files on their servers. ordner.link stores none of your files: they stay on your Mac and stream directly to the visitor, end-to-end encrypted, and the link always shows the folder as it is right now.
The app that shares folders runs on the Mac. Visitors can use any device with a modern browser, including Windows, iPhone and Android.
How does it compare?
A fair, sourced look at ordner.link next to WeTransfer, Dropbox and Google Drive, including where a cloud service fits better.
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