Client gallery vs WeTransfer, Dropbox and Google Drive

For a one-off file drop, WeTransfer, Dropbox and Google Drive are fine. For delivering client photos, a purpose-built gallery wins on every axis that matters: it’s branded, it doesn’t expire, clients can view and favourite before they download, and nobody hits a quota wall. The generic tools were built to move files between two people, not to deliver a finished set to a paying client.

The honest comparison

WeTransfer — dead simple, but links expire (typically 7 days) and there’s no gallery: the client downloads a zip or loses it. No branding, no favouriting, no reason to come back.

Dropbox / Google Drive — a shared folder is unbranded, exposes your file structure, and clients frequently hit “storage full”, download-quota limits, or permission confusion. Google throttles bulk downloads; neither lets a client favourite or order prints.

A client gallery (like this) — your studio name and cover, sections to navigate hundreds of photos, favouriting/proofing, one-tap full-resolution downloads with no throttling, and it stays available for years. The client experiences your brand, not a generic file host.

Where each one is genuinely fine

Use WeTransfer or Drive when you’re sending a couple of files to a collaborator, an editor, or a lab — a quick internal transfer with no client experience attached. That’s what they’re good at, and a gallery would be overkill.

The two things a file host can’t give you

Permanence. Transfer links expire; Drive folders get reorganised or hit storage limits. A delivered gallery should still be there, intact, when the client comes back in two years — and never auto-deleted.
Reliability at scale. Uploading 800–2,000 wedding frames to a consumer cloud folder is slow and fragile. Resumable, checksum-verified uploads built for photo delivery resume on a dropped connection and verify every file.

The bottom line

If the photos are a deliverable to a client, deliver them like one — in a branded gallery that lasts. Save WeTransfer and Drive for quick transfers where no client is watching.

CuratePics is a client-gallery delivery platform built for exactly this — branded, permanent, reliable. See how it works →