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You made something — a report, an invoice, a little landing page — and it's an .html file on your computer. Now you want to send it to a person and have it just work when they open it. The trick is to share a link, not the file. Here's the fastest way, in about a minute and with no signup.
The instinct is to attach the .html file to an email or a chat message. It almost never lands the way you picture it. Depending on the recipient's app, they get a download prompt instead of a page, or they see the raw source code, or the page opens locally with broken images and dead links because it can no longer reach the files it was built alongside. Plenty of corporate mail systems strip or quarantine .html attachments outright as a security measure, so your message arrives with nothing attached at all.
A hosted URL fixes every one of those problems at once. You send a link; the other person clicks it; the page opens in their browser exactly as you see it — on their phone, their work laptop, whatever they have. Nothing to download, nothing to open locally, nothing for a mail filter to object to.
.html file onto the drop zone (or click to pick it). Anonymous files can be up to 2 MB.slug.htmldrop.app URL it hands back and paste it into your email, Slack, WhatsApp, or wherever you're sending it. That's your live page — it opens for anyone, no download. The anonymous link stays up for 7 days.That's the whole thing: a file in, a link out. No repository, no build step, no framework — and the person on the other end never has to think about what an .html file even is.
Every drop gets an unguessable URL, so it's effectively unlisted — it won't show up in search and nobody stumbles onto it. That's enough for most "just send it to my client" cases. When you need an actual lock, paid plans from $5/mo add password protection, so only someone with the password can open the page. That's the difference between a link that's merely hard to find and one the recipient has to prove they're allowed to see — handy for quotes, drafts, and anything you'd rather not have forwarded around.
Anonymous links are perfect for a quick hand-off, but they expire after 7 days — no good if you're putting the link on a business card or in a signature. To keep a page permanently, create a free account — it raises the limit to 10 MB per file and keeps your drops as long as you log in. Paid plans from $5/mo add permanent drops that never expire, more storage, and version history so you can update what you shared without ever changing the link. On Plus and up (from $10/mo) you can point your own custom domain at the drop, so you share a URL on your own brand instead of a htmldrop.app slug.
.zip and share it all at one URL.Anonymous, free, no signup. In seconds you'll have a link to send anywhere — one that just opens.
Try it freeA raw .html attachment rarely opens the way you meant. Depending on the recipient's mail app, it downloads as a file, shows the source code, or opens locally with broken images and links because the page can no longer reach the files it references. Corporate mail filters often strip or quarantine .html attachments entirely. A hosted URL sidesteps all of that — click it and the page just opens in the browser.
Every drop gets an unguessable URL, so it's unlisted by default — only people you send the link to can find it. For a real gate, paid plans from $5/mo add password protection, so the recipient needs the password to view the page.
An anonymous link stays live for 7 days. A free account keeps your drops as long as you log in, and paid plans from $5/mo give permanent drops that never expire — the right choice when you're sharing a link that needs to keep working.