Pricing
Free. All of it.
BIShare costs nothing. Unlimited device-to-device transfers, encrypted links up to 100 GB, no account, no subscription, no ads. Open source under MIT.
$0forever — no account, no card
- Unlimited transfers between nearby devices — no size cap at all
- End-to-end encrypted on every path, including links
- Encrypted share links up to 100 GB, with QR and 6-character codes
- Links auto-expire after 24 hours; nothing is kept
- Rooms — share with a group over one short code
- iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Open source under the MIT licence — no ads, no tracking
Get BIShare
There is no paid tier, and none planned. Nothing here is a trial.
What the alternatives charge
| Service | Free tier | To send more |
|---|---|---|
| WeTransfer | 2 GB per transfer | About $12/month |
| Smash | Large files, throttled speed | About $6/month |
| Dropbox Transfer | 100 MB per transfer | About $12/month |
| BIShare | 100 GB per link · unlimited nearby | Nothing to buy |
Competitor prices are their published list prices and change over time; check their sites for current figures.
Questions about the price
- Why is BIShare free?
- Because it costs us almost nothing to run. Nearby transfers go straight between your devices and never touch a server, so the expensive part of file sharing simply does not happen. Links stream through storage in chunks and delete themselves after 24 hours, which keeps that side to pennies. The size caps other services impose are pricing decisions, not physics — and BIShare is open source, so you can read the code that proves it.
- What's the catch?
- There is no catch, and that is checkable rather than a promise: the source is public under MIT, there are no ads, no tracking, and no account to create — so there is no profile to sell. Files sent over your own network never reach us at all, and files sent by link are encrypted before they leave your device, so we hold bytes we cannot read.
- Are there any limits?
- Transfers between devices on the same network have no size limit — the ceiling is the receiving device's free space. Share links carry up to 100 GB per transfer and expire after 24 hours. Both are free, with no account on either end.
- Will you start charging later?
- There is no paid tier today and none planned. If a paid service is ever added it would be something new alongside this, not a wall placed around what already works — and because the project is MIT-licensed, the version you have today stays free regardless.