White-label Dropbox alternative for digital agencies
White-label Dropbox alternative for digital agencies. Tarkle Send provides custom-domain file sharing, branded pages, access controls, and file tracking.
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Dropbox is widely used for file storage, synchronization, and team collaboration. It also offers branded sharing features on eligible plans, including logos, backgrounds, website links, brand names, social links, and branded notifications or previews.
The distinction is that Dropbox remains the underlying platform. Its shared links use Dropbox infrastructure and do not become a fully white-label file-sharing system on your own domain.
For digital agencies, studios, law firms, consultants, photographers, and other businesses that regularly send files to clients, that distinction matters. The file-sharing page is part of how clients experience the business. Some businesses want that experience to use their own domain, brand, and client-facing workflow.
That is where Tarkle Send fits. Tarkle Send is a white-label Dropbox alternative for businesses that need branded file sharing and controlled file delivery, without replacing their existing storage and sync tools.
What Dropbox does well
Dropbox is not a white-label platform, and that is not going to change
Dropbox is strong for desktop sync, internal folders, offline access, cross-device storage, and collaboration. Teams that need to keep working files aligned across multiple computers can benefit from its desktop application, shared folders, version history, and wider product ecosystem.
Dropbox also provides more branding than many buyers expect. Eligible customers can set a brand name, website link, social links, logo, and background. Branding can be used for shared files and folders, file requests, file transfers, email notifications, and previews, subject to plan and file-type restrictions.
These capabilities can be useful for businesses that want a more polished Dropbox sharing experience while keeping Dropbox at the center of their storage and collaboration workflow.
Dropbox branding compared with Tarkle Send
Dropbox lets eligible customers add branding to selected sharing experiences. Depending on the plan, shared item, and file type, this can include a logo, background image, brand name, website link, social links, and branding in email notifications or file previews.
Why custom-domain file sharing matters
A logo and a background image can improve a Dropbox sharing page. A custom domain changes the address where clients receive files.
With custom-domain file sharing, an agency can use an address such as files.youragency.com. The file-sharing page, link, and business identity all sit under the agency’s own domain.
This can be useful for agencies that deliver brand assets, campaign files, video, photography, reports, proposals, contracts, and other client work regularly. The purpose is not to claim that a branded Dropbox link is inadequate for every business. It is to give teams that need a fully branded workflow a different option.
File-sharing workflows that fit Tarkle Send
Tarkle Send is built for businesses that want more control over the external file-sharing workflow.
Branded file-sharing pages
Connect a custom domain and use branded file-sharing pages for files, video, and audio. Starter includes white-label custom branding. Pro also removes the Powered by Tarkle badge.
Controlled access
Use password protection, email protection, file expiry, and access revocation to control how recipients access a shared file. Pro adds view-only transfers and burn-after-read controls for more restricted sharing.
File requests
Create file-request links that clients can use to submit documents and assets.
Paid downloads and media delivery
Use Stripe payment gates to require payment before access to a file or folder. Tarkle Send also supports branded video and audio pages, while Pro adds embeds for files, video, and audio.
Activity notifications
Pro includes real-time Slack notifications when files are opened or downloaded. This helps a team follow up on an important delivery without checking a dashboard repeatedly.
Tarkle Send pricing
Tarkle Send is included in Tarkle’s unified subscription. Tarkle Starter is $29 per month. It includes Send, Portal, and Crew for five shared team seats. In Send, Starter includes 1 TB of storage, transfers up to 50 GB, unlimited transfers and file requests, custom domains, white-label branding, password and email protection, file expiry, access revocation, Stripe payment gates, and video and audio hosting.
Tarkle Pro is $59 per month for ten shared team seats. It includes 3 TB of Send storage and transfers up to 100 GB. Pro also adds real-time Slack notifications, view-only transfers, burn-after-read links, 90-day file recovery, file, video, and audio embeds, team roles, custom permissions, AI Assist, and removal of the Powered by Tarkle badge.
Both plans include a seven-day free trial with no credit card required. Additional storage costs $9 per TB per month. Additional team seats cost $5 per seat per month.
The same subscription also includes Tarkle Portal for client management and Tarkle Crew for contractor management. This article remains focused on branded file sharing through Tarkle Send.
These features are useful for businesses that want to add their identity to Dropbox sharing. They are different from a fully white-label file-sharing workflow.
Tarkle Send is built around branded file sharing. Businesses can connect a custom domain, configure their visual identity, and share files through pages designed for their own client-facing workflow. Tarkle Send also adds file requests, password and email protection, expiry dates, access revocation, payment gates through Stripe, and file, video, and audio delivery.
Dropbox remains stronger for desktop sync, internal collaboration, offline access, and its wider productivity ecosystem. Tarkle Send is focused on the point where files leave the team and are shared with a client.
Dropbox and Tarkle Send at a glance
This is a simplified comparison. Verify current plan details before choosing a product.
Feature
Dropbox
Tarkle Send
Primary use
Storage, sync, collaboration, and branded sharing
Branded file sharing for external recipients
File-sharing link
Dropbox-hosted sharing link
Custom-domain file-sharing link
Branding
Brand name, logo, background, website, social links, and selected email or preview branding
White-label branded file-sharing pages and branded email delivery
Recipient account
Usually not required for view or download access
Not required for view or download access
Password protection
Available on eligible Dropbox plans and workflows
Included
Link expiration
Available on eligible Dropbox plans and workflows
Included
File requests
Included
Included
Shared folders and desktop sync
Core Dropbox workflow
Not a desktop-sync product
Paid file access
Not listed as a standard Dropbox sharing feature
Stripe payment included
Branded video and audio pages
Not the core Dropbox sharing workflow
Included
Real-time Slack delivery notifications
Not listed as a standard Dropbox sharing feature
Included
Team pricing
Per-user pricing
5 or 10 shared seats, with additional seats available
Tarkle Send is the white-label Dropbox alternative
Tarkle Send is the white-label Dropbox alternative
Tarkle Send is not designed to replace every Dropbox feature. It is designed for a different part of the workflow.
Use Dropbox when your priority is desktop synchronization, internal team folders, offline access, storage, or integration with the wider Dropbox ecosystem.
Choose Tarkle Send when your business needs to share files through your own domain, present a branded file-sharing page, collect file requests, control access, track activity, or charge for downloads.
Many businesses can use both. Dropbox can remain the internal storage and sync layer, while Tarkle Send manages branded file sharing with clients. Tarkle Send also supports file masking, so teams can keep files in Dropbox or another storage provider while presenting them through a branded page.
This article was reviewed on August 17, 2026. Dropbox plan features, branded-sharing controls, and pricing can change. Tarkle plan details are based on the current Tarkle pricing page. Dropbox and Tarkle are independent products. Businesses should verify current product terms before making a buying decision.
Frequently asked questions
Tarkle Send is a white-label Dropbox alternative for branded file sharing and client-facing delivery. It is not intended to replace every Dropbox storage, sync, backup, or productivity feature.
Yes. Dropbox plans support branding such as logos, background images, brand names, website links, social links, and branded notifications or previews. These features remain within Dropbox-hosted sharing experiences and do not provide the same custom-domain white-label workflow as Tarkle Send.
Dropbox’s current branded-sharing documentation describes branding elements and website links, but does not document custom-domain file-sharing pages. Tarkle Send is designed specifically for custom-domain branded file sharing.
Recipients can generally access shared links without having a Dropbox account. Some collaboration, editing, or workspace actions may require an account.
Yes. A team can keep files in Dropbox and use Tarkle Send’s file-masking workflow to present selected files through branded pages.
Tarkle Send includes file-sharing features for team use. The unified Tarkle subscription also includes Tarkle Portal for client management and Tarkle Crew for contractor management.
Yes. Tarkle Send is designed for agencies, studios, consultants, law firms, photographers, and other businesses that regularly share files, video, or audio with clients.
Tarkle Starter is $29 per month for five shared team seats, 1 TB of Send storage, and transfers up to 50 GB. Tarkle Pro is $59 per month for ten shared team seats, 3 TB of Send storage, and transfers up to 100 GB. Both include Send, Portal, and Crew.
Yes. Tarkle includes a seven-day free trial with no credit card required.
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