--- title: "Privatta — Send Files Without the Cloud" description: "Send a file from your computer or phone straight to someone else's. Never uploaded to a company's server, and nobody can push a file onto you uninvited." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- [All products](https://royalsoftworks.com/#products) Nobody can send you a file uninvited No cloud copy of your file. Ever. # Send files straight to the person. Your file travels from your computer or phone to theirs and nowhere else. It is never uploaded to a company's servers and never sits in storage you don't own. Works with colleagues, clients, friends and family — same room or other side of the world. [Buy Privatta](https://royalsoftworks.com/pricing/) [Or try it free](https://royalsoftworks.com/download/#privatta) A file travels directly from your computer to another person's, with no cloud in the middle. 01 How you use it ## Three steps. That is the whole thing. No accounts to create for the other person, no links that live forever, no upload bar to sit and watch. 1 ### Pick what to share Drag in the files or folders you want to share, and choose who is allowed to see each one: everyone, one person, or one team. Nothing else on your computer is visible. Ever. 2 ### Hand over a code Privatta gives you a one-time code. Send it to the person however you like — a message, a call, a QR code they scan with their phone. It works once, then it is dead. 3 ### They take what they need They enter the code, see only the files you chose for them, and download the ones they want — straight from your machine to theirs. You can see exactly who took what. On your own office network you do not even need the code — Privatta finds the other machines by itself, and the internet is never involved at all. ↔Every route · Local + Remote ## Phone to laptop. Laptop to phone. Anywhere to anywhere. Windows, Mac or Linux on one side, the phone in your pocket on the other. In the same office or on the other side of the planet, the file takes the same short trip: from your device to theirs, with nothing in between. MobileDesktop DesktopMobile MobileMobile DesktopDesktop Local Remote A file travels directly from a mobile device to a desktop device, over the local network, with no server holding it. SAME NETWORK · INTERNET NEVER INVOLVED To Mobile To Desktop From Mobile Mobile → Mobile Local Remote Mobile → Desktop Local Remote From Desktop Desktop → Mobile Local Remote Desktop → Desktop Local Remote 8/8 Two device families, two directions, two distances — every combination works. There is no unsupported route. For your IT team - **Transport** — Identical on every route: a WebRTC data channel with DTLS encryption, negotiated directly between the two devices - **Pairing** — QR scan on the LAN; across the internet, a single-use 32-char connection key (5-minute expiry) plus a 6-char security code sent by a different route - **Pull-only** — Every route is pull-only — the receiving device requests each file; no push path exists in the protocol If both ends run Privatta, the route exists — and nothing sits in the middle. 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Over the internet a tiny open-source service does nothing but introduce the two machines to each other, then forgets them — it never sees the file itself. Everyone else Via a server You You ☁ Their cloud Them Them Your file is copied onto a company's server, and waits there until they decide to delete it. Privatta Direct You You Them Them Your file goes straight across, locked the whole way. There is no copy to leave behind. 03 The safety net ## Nothing lands on your computer unless you ask for it. Privatta has no way for someone to push a file at you. They can show you a list and say “here, take this” — but you have to reach out and take it, every single time. That one rule means a virus or an unwanted file simply cannot arrive on its own. Being sent things What Privatta makes impossible Normally the sender decides what lands on your machine, and when. That is how unwanted and malicious files arrive — you never got a say. Going and getting them What Privatta does instead Only you can start a download. The other side can offer you a list of files — and that is all they can do until you choose one. For your IT team - **Enforcement** — The host process only answers list/get requests the connecting peer sends — there is no command path that pushes a file to a peer - **Applies to** — Every transport, identically: LAN and internet (P2P) alike The only server involved — and it never sees your file [https://signal-server-df8l.onrender.com/](https://signal-server-df8l.onrender.com/) When you send over the internet, Privatta uses this address for one thing: telling two computers how to find each other. Your file never passes through it. It runs our open-source [WebRTC Relay Server](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/webrtc-relay-server/), and you can point Privatta at a self-hosted instance in Settings. Explore Privatta ## Want more detail? What you can share, how a file gets there, and why it stays yours the whole way. [Features ### What you can share Give one person, one team, or everyone access to a file. Group files into folders. Trust a device once and be done. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/features/) [Use cases ### Is it for my line of work? Site teams, government, film crews, clinics and the trades — the same direct transfer, used differently by each. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/use-cases/) [How it works ### How a file gets there At the office, across the internet, or with no internet at all — it always takes the direct route. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/how-it-works/) [Security ### Why it is safe Locked end to end, four separate checks before anyone gets in, and no way to push a file at you. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/security/) [Whitepaper ### The technical paper For your IT and security people: the encryption, the identity checks, and how the connection is made. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/whitepaper/) [FAQ ### Common questions Is anything stored on a server? Does it work without internet? What does the free version do? View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/faq/) [Compare ### How it compares Side by side with 26 other ways to send a file, Dropbox and WeTransfer included, on the ten things that matter. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/compare/) [Changelog ### What is new Every update in plain language. The latest one adds guest access, automatic updates and a second code at the door. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/changelog/) [Open source ### The one piece we run The little service that introduces two computers to each other. The code is public — read it, or run your own copy. View](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/webrtc-relay-server/) •Editions ## Free for one person. Ready for a whole company. Every version sends files the same way — directly, and locked the whole way. Paying adds transfers over the internet, control over who sees what, and the tools a company needs to manage it all. ### Free Quick personal shares - Share on your local network - Pull-only, locked transfers - Up to 10 transfers a day - No account needed ### Pro Most popular Professionals & small teams - Private per-person sharing - Approve trusted devices - Internet transfers - Unlimited volume, QR pairing ### Enterprise Whole organisations - Groups modeled on your org — legal, finance, compliance - Folders with shared policy - Immutable audit trail - Trusted-network ranges 04 Full feature comparison ## Every feature, every edition. Pull-only transfer and QR pairing are baseline, on every tier. Pro unlocks internet P2P, offline license activation, and private access control. Enterprise adds an immutable audit log and user groups pre-modeled on real org structures — no features are removed, only added. | Feature | Free Quick LAN shares | Pro★Private & internet | Enterprise Organisations | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Core Transfer | | | | | Pull-only transfer — recipient always initiates, sender can never push | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Any file type, any size — no upload quota | Yes | Yes | Yes | | LAN (local network) direct transfer | Yes | Yes | Yes | | WebRTC end-to-end encryption (DTLS, negotiated peer-to-peer) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Real-time transfer progress | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Internet P2P transfer (WebRTC + one-time connection key and security code) | No | Yes | Yes | | Daily transfer limit | 10 per day | Unlimited | Unlimited | | LAN-only mode (zero outbound calls, air-gap capable) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Access Control | | | | | Public (globally shared) files — no account required | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Guest access over P2P — connect with no account, see only files marked Everyone | No | Yes | Yes | | Per-user private file access control | No | Yes | Yes | | Single-use connection key + out-of-band security code over P2P; MAC address whitelist on LAN | No | Yes | Yes | | Four checks over P2P: connection key + security code + credentials (or guest) + file permission | No | Yes | Yes | | Per-file optional description | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Virtual folders (shared permission set across grouped files) | No | Yes | Yes | | Trusted CIDR ranges (Tailscale, ZeroTier, company VPN) | No | Yes | Yes | | User groups with group-level file permissions | No | No | Yes | | Group membership file-access inheritance | No | No | Yes | | Security & Audit | | | | | DTLS-encrypted handshake on every connection (WebRTC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | P2P rate-limiting (5 wrong codes or passwords → session locked until a new key and code) | No | Yes | Yes | | LAN login rate-limiting (20 failures / 15-min window → block) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Path enumeration prevention (requests never reveal whether a path exists) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Immutable access log (channel, IP, machine, MAC, device ID, user, file, outcome — no delete capability exists in the code) | No | No | Yes | | Internet (P2P) sessions audited: sign-ins, refusals, denied files, transfers, disconnects | No | No | Yes | | Hash-chained log entries — edits made outside the app are detected | No | No | Yes | | Offline / air-gap license activation (signed, machine-bound license file — zero network calls) | No | Yes | Yes | | AES-256-CBC encrypted transfer counter (tamper-evident free-tier limit) | Yes | N/A | N/A | | Connectivity & Platform | | | | | Windows 10+ / macOS 12+ / Linux desktop app | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Code-signed Windows installer and portable build (Authenticode, Royal SoftWorks) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Automatic update check at launch, installed on your confirmation | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Interface and in-app help in nine languages | Yes | Yes | Yes | | QR code device pairing (scan-and-pin, no typing) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Android companion app (browse + download) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | iOS companion app | In dev. | In dev. | In dev. | | Automatic mDNS LAN discovery (zero config) | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Saved devices for quick reconnect | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Open-source, stateless relay introduces peers (default or self-hosted) | No | Yes | Yes | | STUN-assisted NAT traversal for direct WebRTC connections | No | Yes | Yes | | Enterprise Organisation | | | | | On-premise, zero cloud dependency | Yes | Yes | Yes | | User groups pre-modeled on real org structures (legal, finance/compliance, etc.) | No | No | Yes | | Group-scoped virtual folders | No | No | Yes | | Group-level access check across full membership hierarchy | No | No | Yes | Included~Partial Not included