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title: "Privatta vs Dropbox: Transfer, Not Storage"
description: "Dropbox keeps your files in its cloud so every device can reach them. Privatta sends a file straight to one person and stores nothing. When to use which."
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Privatta vs Dropbox

# Privatta vs Dropbox: one keeps your files, the other hands them over.

Dropbox and Privatta are different kinds of tool, which is exactly why people compare them. Dropbox is storage: your files live in its cloud so every device and every collaborator can reach them. Privatta is transfer: a file goes from one computer to another, and nothing keeps a copy in between.

Free to download, no account · Pro €19 a month · Windows · Android [Download free](https://royalsoftworks.com/download/#privatta)

## vs Dropbox, in 3 short pages

1. [1 Privatta and Dropbox, side by side. What happens to your file with each of them, and the two side by side, row by row.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/vs/dropbox/side-by-side/)
2. [2 When to use which. When Privatta is the better tool, when Dropbox is, and what each costs.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/vs/dropbox/which-to-use/)
3. [3 Questions people ask. Whether the other person needs Privatta, whether both computers have to be on, and whether the file passes through a server.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/privatta/vs/dropbox/questions/)

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