A Dropbox alternative for sending finished work
You finish a video edit. It's 1.4 GB. The client needs it today.
So you drop it in Dropbox, wait for the sync icon to stop spinning, right-click, copy link, paste it into an email and write the email yourself. Then you wait. Did it arrive? Did they open it? You have no idea, so on Thursday you send the "just checking you got this" email that neither of you enjoys.
Dropbox is good at what it's for. Handing over one finished file isn't that.
Sync and delivery are different jobs
Dropbox is a sync product. It keeps a folder identical across your machines and everyone you share it with, and it keeps doing that forever. Every feature follows from that: folders, permissions, version history, selective sync, shared team spaces.
All of it earns its place when two people work on the same files for months.
Handing over finished work is a different job. The file doesn't need to stay in sync with anything, because you're never touching it again. What you need is for it to arrive once, and to know that it did.
What a delivery tool does instead
Campsend takes files, a note and one email address. That's the whole composer.
It emails the recipient a link. The link stops working after 30 days without you remembering to clean anything up. If you need it gone sooner, you revoke it and it stops working immediately.
And you can see what happened. Campsend records when the delivery was first opened and when a file was first downloaded, and shows both on your Sent page. That's the whole reason the Thursday email exists, and it's on every plan including the free one.
The files stay in your library afterwards, so sending the same deck to a second client doesn't mean uploading it twice.
Where Dropbox still wins
If two people are editing the same files, use Dropbox. Campsend has no shared folders, no sync and no collaboration, and adding them would make it a worse version of a tool that already exists.
If you need a file to stay available indefinitely, use Dropbox. Campsend links expire on purpose.
If you're sending to five people at once, Campsend makes you send five deliveries. That's deliberate, because it's what keeps "was this opened?" a question with a real answer, but it's a genuine limit and you'll feel it.
What it costs
The free plan is 15 deliveries a month and 5 GB of storage, with tracking included. Pro is $9 a month or $89 a year. It removes the delivery limit, raises storage to 250 GB and lets you brand the delivery page or connect your own S3 bucket.
You can also run Campsend on your own server. It's open source under the MIT license, and a self-hosted install has no storage limit and no delivery limit, because plans don't exist in that code at all.
If that 1.4 GB edit is your week rather than an example, here is what Campsend looks like for video editors.
I was on Dropbox's free tier. I stopped opening it to send one file.