StrongFolder does one thing: it sends files and folders directly from your browser to someone else's. Files are never uploaded to or stored on a StrongFolder server. No size limit set by StrongFolder. The practical limits are free disk space on the recipient's device, connection speed, and how long both devices stay online. Below is how different people use that — and, for each, when another tool fits better.
Families & events
A wedding video, a birthday's worth of phone clips, a scanned family archive — these files are too big for chat apps, and chat apps shrink them anyway. With one StrongFolder link, every relative gets the original files in full quality.
At an event, show the QR code on a laptop screen and let people scan it. Phones download files one by one or as a ZIP; to save a whole folder with its structure, open the link in Chrome, Edge or Opera on a computer.
If grandparents will download "sometime next week", a shared cloud album is easier — a StrongFolder link works only while you keep sharing.
Creators
Video creators and editors send camera footage, proxies and whole consolidated project folders to editors and clients without recompression or an upload wait. See How to share large video files and How to send large video files.
Photographers hand RAW + JPEG folders — with XMP sidecars in place — to retouchers, second shooters and agencies. Client galleries remain the better tool for proofing and print sales: see How to send RAW photos.
Gamers
Mod packs, save files, worlds and playtest builds are all folders that only work with their structure intact. Drop one link into your group chat and everyone gets the same setup. Share only what you have the right to share — your own saves, worlds and builds, and mods whose authors allow it. See How to share game files.
Business
Architects and engineers send packaged CAD and BIM projects — AutoCAD xrefs, Revit links, SolidWorks assemblies — with relative paths intact: How to send CAD files.
Agencies and studios deliver design files, video edits and campaign assets to clients without zipping and without a copy left on a third-party server. Event teams pass photo and video material to organizers the same evening. For large PDFs and document sets, see How to send large documents; for confidentiality, secure file sharing.
For daily collaboration on the same files, a cloud drive or a project platform is the better fit — compare in StrongFolder vs Google Drive.
Education
Teachers share recorded lectures, datasets and software for a class: put the folder on the screen as a QR code and students download it during the lesson. Students send large projects — films, 3D scenes, design portfolios — to a teacher without hitting email limits (see email attachment size limits).
Course material that must stay available all semester belongs in your learning platform or a cloud folder.
Developers
Developers move builds, logs, datasets, VM images and whole working folders between machines and colleagues — including between their own computers, for example from Mac to Windows. Exclude folders you can regenerate (such as dependency caches) to save time. Curious about the mechanics? Read how WebRTC file transfer works and advanced file transfer.
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Which use case is not a good fit?
StrongFolder is the wrong tool when the sender can't stay online, when files must stay available for weeks, or when people need to preview and comment online. In those cases use a cloud link — P2P vs cloud file transfer explains the trade-off, and WeTransfer alternatives compares the options.