What are the differences between MediaFire and ShareFile?

Let us understand the concepts of MediaFire and ShareFile before learning the differences between them.

MediaFire

MediaFire is a cloud storage service and file hosting service which became more popular as a platform for sharing large files. It was owned by MediaFire LLC in 2006. Actually, it has a reputation for having poor privacy which is difficult for it to overcome, and because of its limited capabilities it has been kept aside from the list of the best cloud storage services.

MediaFire is providing 10GB storage for free and up to 50 GB free with bonuses, we can store all our files, photos, audio and videos. It helps us to easily share large files through emails. It provides unlimited ad-supported downloads with no waiting times.

Features

The features of MediaFire are as follows −

• Instantly recover deleted files

• Share and collaborate files

• Easily share large files and folders

• File sharing management

• Cloud storage security

• Cloud Administration.

Advantages

The advantages of MediaFire are as follows −

• 10GB free storage

• Very large file size limit

• More transfer speeds to and from MediaFire

• Easy to use

• Cost-effective consumption based-model

• Very reliable and secure platform

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of MediaFire are as follows −

• No file encryption

• Too many ads

• Very few features

• Terrible design

• Poor customer support

• Data consumption is more customizable

ShareFile

ShareFile was launched by Jesse Lipson in the year 2005 and was later owned by Citrix system in the year 2011. It can be integrated with any third party applications and current file storage systems to ensure flexible and synchronous file storage, modification, saving, sending and retrieval of files. It accommodates the secure sending of large files, with the ability to send and receive files of up to 100 GB in size.

It helps us to access the files from any device, mobile or desktop, allowing you to work anywhere. We can also add an e-signature feature to our documents, provide tracking tools and get notified when files are received.

Features

The features of ShareFile are as follows −

• ShareFile Sync

• Desktop Widget

• Version Control

• Collaboration Tools

• Compliance

• Tracking

• Document Archiving

• Document Assembly

• Document Indexing

• Document Retention

• e-Signature

• File Recovery

Advantages

The advantages of ShareFile are as follows −

• We can share documents

• Unlimited storage

• Send and receive files in a more safe and secure way.

• Software includes a number of features.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of ShareFile are as follows −

• Difficult to non-tech people to handle

• Outlook extension of ShareFile is not good

• Sometimes documents are shown as corrupted and forced to reload.

• Transferring takes a lot of time.

Differences

The major differences between MediaFire and ShareFile are as follows −