A shoot does not fit a consumer link
Photography studios move large sets of files in both directions: RAW shoots to a retoucher or lab, finished galleries to a client, catalogue images to an e-commerce team, and cards from a second shooter back to the studio. A single wedding runs to hundreds of gigabytes in RAW; a catalogue shoot runs to more. Consumer file-sharing tools cap the size or meter every gigabyte, and their browser uploads run over TCP, which stalls over distance and fails at the last percent of a big folder.
Whole shoots, at full speed
Boita moves data with an accelerated transfer engine over UDP with its own rate control. A transfer holds your line rate whether the retoucher is in the next suburb or another country, and a folder of thousands of files runs as parallel sessions sized to your plan. In the desktop app, a dropped connection or a closed laptop resumes by itself rather than restarts; from a browser or the phone app, an interrupted transfer starts again.
Drag a shoot folder into the desktop app, or point a watch folder at the folder where cards are ingested so a shoot uploads on its own while you edit. Files are sent only once they have stopped changing, and the queue runs with the window closed.
Galleries clients can open; cards assistants can send
Send a finished gallery as a share link with an expiry, an optional password and a download limit, by email from Boita with a message. The client opens a page, sees a preview of every image, and downloads without an account. The sender dashboard shows when they downloaded.
An upload portal is a request link into a folder you choose: a second shooter, an assistant or a client sending reference images uses it to upload straight into your workspace. Each upload lands in its own dated inbox folder with the sender’s name attached, and both of you get an email when it completes. Your logo and colours on share pages and portals, on your own domain, come with Scale and above.
Flat plans for studios that shoot every week
Every file shows the checksum the server recorded on arrival, so a corrupt RAW is caught before the retoucher opens it. Deleted files sit in the trash for a recovery window, and storage usage is shown on every page with an email before you reach your quota.
A 300 GB wedding in RAW reaches the retoucher from a studio on Pro, over a 1 Gbps line, in about an hour and a half, plan-limited at 450 Mbps; the calculator on the home page models your own line.
Plans are flat monthly amounts sized by storage, share retention and seats: Free gives a 10 GB workspace with three-day share retention; Pro gives 1 TB, 14 days, three seats, the desktop app, password-protected links and portals; Scale gives 10 TB, 30 days and fifteen seats. There are no per-GB fees and no charge when a client downloads their gallery again, and Indian studios are billed in INR with GST invoices.
- Whole RAW shoots at line rate; automatic resume in the desktop app
- Share links with expiry, password and download limits; no client account
- Upload portals for second shooters and assistants
- Checksums on every file; trash with a recovery window
- Previews and branded pages; flat plans, no per-GB fees