The Firefox Send alternative
Mozilla shut Firefox Send down in 2020. FileVanish works the same way: your file is encrypted in your browser, the key lives in the link, and the file deletes itself when the link expires.
Send a file free →AES-256-GCM · no signup · up to 100 MB free
What people loved about Send was simple: share a file without handing it to anyone. That's the whole design here.
Your browser encrypts the file. Only scrambled bytes reach our storage on Cloudflare.
It sits after the # in the URL, which browsers never send to a server. We can't open your file.
Pick an expiry and a view limit. When either is hit, the file is deleted for good.
Firefox Send figures are as Mozilla ran it before shutting it down in September 2020.
| Firefox Send | FileVanish | |
|---|---|---|
| Available today | No, shut down 2020 | Yes |
| Encrypted in your browser | Yes | Yes, AES-256-GCM |
| Signup needed | No (1 GB); yes for 2.5 GB | No (100 MB); Pro for 2 GB |
| Expiry | Up to 7 days | 1 hour to 7 days free, 30 days on Pro |
| View limit | Yes | Up to 5 free, unlimited on Pro |
| Password protection | Yes | Pro: password or generated passphrase |
| Encrypted text snippets | No | Yes, with syntax highlighting |
| Ask someone to send you a file | No | Pro: file requests |
The short version of what people ask before switching.
Yes. Files are encrypted in your browser with AES-256-GCM before upload. In Quick mode the key is in the link after the #, which browsers never send to the server, so we can't decrypt your files.
No. Free sharing needs no signup: files up to 100 MB, 10 uploads a day, links that last up to 7 days and up to 5 views.
The encrypted file is deleted from storage and the link stops working. There's no copy to recover.
Pro is $5/month or $48/year: files up to 2 GB, 30-day links, unlimited views, burn after reading, password or passphrase protection, file requests and an encrypted vault.