Why Snapy exists
Making a file has never been easier. Handing it to someone is still oddly hard.
A cloud drive will store it, then ask the other person to sign in, or to request access, and wait. Email will carry it until it is too big, which happens sooner than anyone expects. A code host will serve a page, but only after a repository, a commit and a build. Each of those is a reasonable tool solving a larger problem than the one in front of you.
The problem in front of you is usually small: there is one file, and one person who needs to open it. Snapy does that and stops. Upload, get a link, send the link.
It began as a way to publish a single page or an AI-generated artifact without ceremony, and it has stayed deliberately narrow. Narrow is the feature. A tool that does one thing can make that thing take four seconds.
What a link gives you that an attachment does not
An attachment leaves and nothing comes back. It might have bounced on size. It might be sitting unopened. It might have been forwarded to four people. There is no way to tell.
A link reports. On the free plan Snapy counts every open, the country it came from and the referrer that sent it, counts downloads separately, totals the reading time, charts opens over time, and emails you the first time someone opens it.
What the free plan does not do is name the reader. Seeing which individual people opened a link, counting how many different people opened it, and an email on every single open are Pro features, and this page is not going to imply otherwise.
How it works
- Drop a file, or browse to pick one.
- Give the link a name, or let Snapy choose one.
- Copy the link and share it in an email, a chat, a post, or a QR code.
Files are stored on object storage and served from a global edge network, so a link opens fast
wherever the reader is. A link can carry a custom, memorable name like proposal.snapy.page
instead of a long random string, on the free plan.
Built for work that comes out of an AI tool
Generated a page with Claude, ChatGPT or v0 and want to share it? Paste it in and get a live link. See the guide on how to share an AI page, or how to turn a PDF into a link.
Hosting an HTML page or a zip does need an account with a confirmed email address. That is the one place the upload form asks for something, and the reason is in the next section.
What you can do with Snapy
- Share a PDF as a clean link instead of a heavy attachment.
- Host an HTML page with no Git and no build step.
- Share an AI-generated page from whichever tool made it.
- Send a document as a link and get an email the first time it is opened.
See the full list of features, or the complete guide on how to share a file.
Safety and trust
Most file types upload without an account. PDFs, images, text, spreadsheets and Office documents do not ask for one, because asking would stop a first-time visitor from doing the simple thing. HTML pages, zips and video do require an account with a confirmed email address, because those can carry executable content or real bandwidth cost, so those links can be traced to someone contactable.
Dangerous file types are refused outright: executables, scripts, installers, disk images and macro-enabled Office files, because those are the formats used to deliver malware. HTML, SVG and text uploads have their contents read and scored before a link exists, and anything built to collect payments from whoever opens it is refused rather than served. There is no antivirus scan, and Snapy does not claim one.
Links are unlisted. There is no directory of what people upload, no way to browse or search it,
and hosted content is noindex by default, so it stays out of search results unless a page is
deliberately made indexable. A link can be restricted further with a password, view-only
serving, an expiry date or a single use, all on the free plan. Requiring an email address before
opening is a Pro feature.
Every page Snapy serves carries a "Report this page" link, on every plan. It cannot be removed and it cannot be paid to remove. You can also report abuse or ask for a link to be taken down with a deletion request. What is and is not allowed is set out in the Acceptable Use and Content Moderation Policy.
What the free plan is, exactly
20 live links at a time, with unlimited files on each link. 1GB of storage and 150MB per file. A password, an expiry date, view-only serving, a QR code and a custom link name. Every open counted with its country and referrer, downloads counted separately, total reading time, and an email the first time the link is opened.
It is a plan rather than a trial. It does not expire.
What it does not include, so nobody finds out the hard way: naming the individual people who opened a link, counting unique visitors, an email on every open, requiring an email address before opening, lead capture, reader comments, a custom domain, and replacing the file behind an existing link. On the free plan you would create a new link instead of swapping the file under the old one.
The shape of the thing
Snapy is small on purpose. One file, one link, and an honest account of what happened to it.