Introducing WarpSend
Most teams still ship hard drives, wait overnight for WeTransfer, or pay six figures for Aspera. We built a third option — fast enough to make couriers redundant, cheap enough that you don't need an IT project to deploy it.
The median US upload speed in 2025 is 59 Mbps. At that rate, 200 GB of raw footage takes seven and a half hours — which is why a “morning upload” so reliably turns into “Slack at 2 AM asking if it’s done yet.”
We built WarpSend because nothing in this category has materially improved since the early 2000s.
The space, honestly
There are roughly three options if you need to move serious volumes of data:
- Ship a drive. Still common in post-production. Reliable, but you’ve just put your project on FedEx.
- WeTransfer / Smash / Dropbox Transfer. Easy to use, but built for one-off sends, not for teams. WeTransfer’s free tier now caps you at 10 transfers and 3 GB combined per month, with links living 3 days.
- Aspera / Signiant / MASV / FileCatalyst. Genuinely fast over long distances. Genuinely priced like enterprise software — Aspera deployments routinely land in the $75K–$150K range once you add licensing, infrastructure, and support.
The middle of that market — fast enough for terabytes, cheap enough for a 4-person studio, simple enough to set up before lunch — has been empty for a decade. That’s the space WarpSend is built for.
What WarpSend does
Three things, on purpose:
- Send — large files directly between two devices at full network speed
- Share — generate a link that stays alive even when your machine is off
- Sync — mirror folders across locations in real time
All three run on the same UDP-based engine. There is one app, one mental model, one config to learn.
How it’s different in one line
We use the same class of transport protocol the expensive incumbents use — UDP with custom congestion control, tuned for long-distance high-throughput transfers — and we sell it for $5 per TiB over the free 1 TB monthly quota. No per-node licensing, no infrastructure to provision, no enterprise contract.
Concretely:
- 618× faster than FTP on bursts of small files, 5.6× faster on a single large file (US East ↔ Frankfurt, real machines, real conditions)
- No server setup. P2P with NAT hole-punching where possible, Cloudflare relay where not
- NAS-native. Ships in the Synology Package Center and QNAP App Center — install via the same UI you use for everything else
- End-to-end encrypted. Files never sit unencrypted on our infrastructure, even when relayed
- No expiring links on PAYG. WeTransfer’s 7-day clock is one of the most-complained-about pieces of file-sharing UX on the internet; we don’t have one
Who this is for
We’re rolling out first to the people who feel the pain most acutely:
- Video and post-production teams. Shoot in New York, edit in LA, ship the rough cut to a client in London without anyone touching a drive.
- Synology / QNAP power users. NAS-to-NAS replication across offices without VPN gymnastics or port forwarding.
- Distributed engineering teams. Move build artifacts, ML datasets, or backups across regions on a schedule.
If you’ve ever spent a weekday debugging why your FTP upload stalled at 87%, or written a Slack post-mortem starting with “OK so the drive landed but then…”, we built this for you.
Start free at app.warpsend.io — 1 TB of traffic per month, 200 GB of share storage, no credit card. If you don’t move more data than that, you’ll never see a bill.