Nippy vs Hightail
From the YouSendIt era to links that stay.
Hightail has been sending big files since it was called YouSendIt, and under OpenText its centre of gravity has shifted to creative collaboration: Spaces for sharing work-in-progress, visual previews, comments and approval workflows. Teams that review video cuts and design rounds inside large organisations are its real audience.
As a simple sharing tool its free tier has thinned — individual files cap at 100 MB (as of June 2026), and pricing has crept upward — which is what sends individual users looking elsewhere. Nippy makes a different offer: instead of sending files or routing them through review, it publishes them. A folder becomes a page at an address like yours.nippy.site — photos as a browsable gallery, documents as a tidy download page, websites hosted as-is — with no expiry, updates landing on the same link, and passwords, custom domains and cookie-free analytics on paid plans.
It has no approval workflow, no version comments and no enterprise admin — if structured creative review is the job, Hightail’s category (alongside tools like Frame.io) keeps it. If the job is getting work to people at a link that lasts, hosting beats sending.
Last reviewed: 12 June 2026
Side by side
The differences, at a glance.
| Nippy | Hightail | |
|---|---|---|
| Free file limits | One site, 25 MB total | 100 MB per file (June 2026) |
| Link lifetime | No expiry — until you take it down | Send links expire; Spaces persist on paid plans |
| Purpose | Publish and present — galleries, pages, sites | Send files and run creative review rounds |
| Review and approvals | None — it’s a host, not a workflow | Comments, versions and approvals built in |
| Recipient experience | A web page at your address | Hightail’s download and review interface |
| Updating a share | Same link, new files, one-click publish | New versions flow through the review thread |
Which one?
An honest fork in the road.
Choose Nippy when…
- The share should live at a permanent, presentable link
- You’re delivering finals, not gathering feedback rounds
- Galleries and tidy pages beat a download interface
Choose Hightail when…
- Structured creative review — comments, versions, approvals — is the job
- Your organisation already runs on OpenText tooling
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What are Hightail’s free limits now?
Individual files cap at 100 MB on the free tier (as of June 2026), with larger files and the full review features on paid plans — which have crept up in price since the OpenText changes.
Is Nippy a YouSendIt-style sending tool?
No — nothing is “sent”. Files are published at a permanent address and people visit it, which suits deliveries and portfolios better than one-shot handoffs.
What should creative teams use for review?
A review tool — Hightail Spaces or Frame.io-class products — where comments and approvals are first-class. Host the approved finals afterwards so the delivery link outlives the project.
Can recipients comment on a Nippy page?
No — visitors browse and download. That keeps deliveries clean, and it means Nippy doesn’t replace review workflows; it follows them.
More questions? Visit the help center or email support@nippy.host
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