Great sync. Sharing, not so much.

Dropbox earned its reputation on sync, and nothing here disputes it: for keeping a team’s working files in step across machines, with version history and best-in-class desktop integration, Dropbox remains the benchmark.

Sharing with the outside world is the weaker half. Recipients land in Dropbox’s preview interface rather than on anything that looks like yours; the free Basic plan holds 2 GB; and Dropbox Transfer — the send-a-parcel feature — caps free transfers at 100 MB with links that expire within about a week (as of June 2026). Nippy covers exactly that outward-facing half: drop a folder and it becomes a web page at an address like yours.nippy.site — photos as a gallery with a lightbox and original-quality zip downloads, documents as a tidy download page, websites hosted as-is — with no expiry, no account walls for visitors, and a custom domain on paid plans.

It does none of Dropbox’s inward-facing work: no sync client, no version history, no collaboration. The honest division of labour: Dropbox for files in motion among people who work together; a hosted page when the share itself is the product.