Nippy vs Tiiny.host: the honest comparison.

Tiiny.host and Nippy do the same simple thing: drag a folder in, get a live link, no build pipeline and no config. Either is a fine choice for putting a static site online fast, and switching between them is trivial because both just host the files you bring.

The differences are in what happens to those files. Nippy generates presentation automatically: a folder of photos becomes a gallery with thumbnails, a full-screen lightbox, and a download-as-zip button, and any folder of documents becomes a tidy listing — which makes it useful for galleries, hand-outs, and client deliverables, not only websites. The workflow stays the same on every plan: drop files to stage changes, publish in one click, and edit text or HTML right in the browser.

Free sites stay online with no expiry conditions, and paid plans add password protection, custom domains connected with one CNAME record, and cookie-free visitor analytics that need no consent banner. Tiiny.host, for its part, has been at this longer, is a well-known home for quickly hosting a PDF or a single HTML file, and has a bigger ecosystem of small tools around that job. For one HTML file today, both work; for photos, files, and links that need to stay alive and grow, Nippy was built for exactly that.