How it works
whispers sends files straight from one browser to another. You don’t need an account, and your files are never stored on a server.
Start a channel
Click New channel to get a link. Anyone who opens the link joins the channel, so send it only to people you want to have your files.
For more safety, tick Require a PIN to join first. The channel then gets a six-digit PIN too, and joining takes both.
Share files
Click Share a file and pick one, up to 512 MB. It stays in your browser, and the people in the channel download it directly from you, so keep the page open until they have it. While the page is closed, nobody can get your files from you.
Download files
Files appear in the channel’s list as people share them. Click Download, and the file saves itself when it’s finished: to your downloads, or, in some browsers, to a place you choose.
Keep files available
Usually a file can only be downloaded while the person who shared it is in the channel. Turn on Assist peers by uploading files, and the files you download stay in your browser for others to get from you too, even after the person who shared them has left. It’s off unless you turn it on.
When a channel ends
A new channel waits for its first file for as long as someone is on its page. After that, it stays open while someone in it is sharing a file. About ten minutes after nobody is, the channel closes for good: its link stops working, and browsers delete its files. Files you saved are yours to keep. Leave channel deletes the channel’s files from your browser straight away.
Browsers
whispers works in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, and in other browsers built on Chrome’s engine, such as Brave, on computers and phones. On an iPhone or iPad, other browsers usually run on Safari’s engine, so the same goes for them.
- Chrome and Edge on a computer can save downloads straight into a folder you choose. Other browsers save them to your downloads, and Safari may ask first.
- Phones pause pages you aren’t looking at, so keep whispers on screen until a transfer finishes.
- Private windows in some browsers, Safari’s for one, can’t keep the files whispers needs. If yours can’t, whispers says so.
- It doesn’t work in Tor Browser, or in Brave’s private windows with Tor, which don’t allow direct connections between browsers.
- Older browsers that lack what whispers needs get a message saying so.
Good to know
- Files are encrypted from end to end with keys that come from the link, so the whispers server can’t see them.
- Up to ten people can be in a channel at once.
- Your browser can have up to 100 files in a channel at once: ones it shares, is downloading or keeps for others.
- People in a channel connect to each other directly, so they can see each other’s IP addresses.
- Some networks don’t allow direct connections between browsers. Two people who can’t reach each other can’t swap files directly, and whispers says so.
- whispers checks that each file arrives exactly as it was shared, not that it’s safe. Only open files from people you trust.
- A browser can only have a channel open in one tab at a time.
- To ask a question, or report a channel that’s being used for something harmful, use the contact page. A report needs the channel’s link.
What whispers collects, and who can see what, is on the privacy page.
Use it lawfully
Please don’t use whispers to send or receive anything that’s illegal where either the sender or the receiver is. Laws differ between countries, so something allowed where you are may be illegal where someone in your channel is.
whispers doesn’t make you anonymous: people in a channel can see each other’s IP addresses, and whispers’ server sees yours while you use it.
Keep this website alive
whispers is free, shows no ads and needs no account, but its server costs money to run. If it’s useful to you, you can help keep it going with a donation on Ko-fi.