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KitSlate or Dropbox Transfer and Replay for sending video files?
Dropbox Transfer sends a copy of files by link or email, and the recipient needs no Dropbox account. Dropbox Replay is a browser-based review and approval tool for video, audio, images and PDFs. Both come with Dropbox plans, and Replay's paid Add-On unlocks more.
KitSlate’s Media Center sends up to 1 TB per transfer, plays the clips for the person you send to, takes their notes at a timecode and keeps the transfer beside the job’s quotes, call sheets and invoices. Dropbox Transfer and Replay’s side of the table is from its own pages, read on 8 October 2026. “Not stated” means their pages do not say.
KitSlate and Dropbox Transfer and Replay
Where Dropbox leadsReplay is a dedicated review tool: comments on an exact frame or a range, drawing on the frame, versions and live review, with integrations for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, LumaFusion and Pro Tools. Transfer comes with every Dropbox plan, file requests let clients upload, and Dropbox lists SOC 1, 2 and 3 reports and ISO 27001.
Where KitSlate leadsLarger single sends than Transfer's biggest plan, a link that works before the upload ends, every audio track with its own meter, LUTs, part downloads in original quality where the file allows and a spec sheet read from the file. KitSlate does not read, analyse or train on the files you transfer.
Side by side
| What | KitSlateMedia Center | Dropbox Transfer and ReplayTransfer and Replay |
|---|---|---|
| Sending | ||
| Largest transfer | Per transfer: 5 GB on the free profile, 500 GB on Solo, 1 TB on Studio and above, up to 500 files. | Transfer: Basic 2 GB; Family and Plus 50 GB; Standard, Professional, Education, Essentials, Advanced and Business 100 GB; Business Plus and Enterprise 250 GB. The paid Replay Add-On raises Transfer to 250 GB. Replay itself takes files up to 150 GB. |
| Storage | Your live links share your storage: 100 GB on the free profile, 500 GB on Solo, 2 TB on Studio, 4 TB on Production House, 10 TB on Enterprise. | Transfer copies do not use your Dropbox storage. Plans: Basic 2 GB; Plus 2 TB for one person; Standard from 3 TB per team; Advanced from 15 TB per team; Enterprise customised. Replay uploads from your computer count against storage; files already in Dropbox do not count twice. Largest single file uploaded to Dropbox: 2 TB. |
| Link before the upload ends | Yes. The link exists the moment the upload starts, so you can share it while the files are still on their way; their page shows what has arrived and fills in the rest as it comes. | Not stated |
| Uploads from clients | No. Recipients can write back to you on the page; they cannot send files to you. | File requests: anyone can upload to you without a Dropbox account, with an optional password; files go to a folder in your Dropbox and count toward your storage. Request size limit 2 GB on Basic, Plus and Family; 250 GB on Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, Standard, Advanced and Enterprise. Email on each upload. |
| Speed | ||
| Transfer engine | In the browser over HTTPS, with nothing to install. Each file goes up in parts over as many as 32 parallel connections, set by a speed test before you send; an interrupted upload carries on from the last part saved, and downloads resume too. No accelerated UDP protocol and no desktop app. | Transfers are created in a browser at dropbox.com, in the desktop app (right-click, Transfer a Copy) or in the iOS and Android apps. Dropbox says it resumes interrupted transfers automatically (stated for Dropbox generally, not for Transfer by name). Transfer protocol: Not stated. |
| What the sender uses | A browser. There is no desktop or mobile app to install. | Transfer: send from dropbox.com in a browser, the Dropbox desktop app (Windows, Mac) or the Dropbox iOS and Android apps. Replay: works in a browser on Windows, macOS or mobile (Chrome recommended); Dropbox also lists a macOS desktop app. Dropbox's Linux desktop app can be controlled from a command line; sending a transfer from a command line: Not stated. |
| Speed, as published | Measured from our office in Manhattan on a 2 Gbps fiber connection: 1.82 Gbps up to KitSlate storage over 12 connections, 2.04 Gbps back down. That is 100 GB in about 8 min, 1 TB in about 1 h 21 min (measured 7 October 2026). A speed test on the Send page, and on kitslate.app/transfers, measures your own line before you send. | A transfer-speed figure for Transfer or Replay, a speed test or a calculator: Not stated. Dropbox's FTP page says its transfers are faster than FTP servers. Its plans page cites a 2023 Principled Technologies study sponsored by Dropbox on Dropbox uploads and sync (not Transfer), e.g. 71% faster uploads of folders with 10,000 files than Google Drive.File transfers with Dropbox are faster and more secure than FTP servers.dropbox.com/ftp, 'What's the difference between FTP and Dropbox?' |
| Watching and review | ||
| Plays in the browser | H.264 video and sound play on the page. Camera files play too, MXF included: from the proxy the camera recorded, or from a preview KitSlate makes on paid plans, within the plan's monthly preview minutes. The download is the untouched master. ProRes and DNxHR .mov files show their specs and download; most browsers play only their sound. | Dropbox previews video such as .mov, .mp4, .mkv, .avi, .mts and .mxf under 100 GB (150 GB with the Replay Add-On); .mxf previews only on Professional, Essentials, Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus, Enterprise and Education, and previews follow the file owner's plan. Someone who doesn't own the file can stream the first 30 minutes (Basic owner), two hours (Plus, Family, Professional) or four hours (Standard, Advanced, Enterprise); previews go up to 1080p on Basic and 4K on paid plans. Replay also accepts .m2ts, .ts, .webm and more, and can download lower-resolution proxies. ProRes by name: Not stated. |
| Spec sheet | A spec sheet read from the file itself: Picture (codec, bit depth, frame rate), Sound (tracks and their names, sample rate) and Source (start timecode, camera, scene and take). | Dropbox says you can see a video's resolution in the file's Details panel, and every file shows its location, size, modified date and type. Codec, frame rate, timecode or audio-track details: Not stated, in Dropbox or in Replay. |
| Comments at a timecode | Pause and write: the note carries the clip's source timecode and opens the clip at that frame; you answer on the same thread. Notes sit as markers on the scrubber, and J, K and L play backwards, pause and speed up, on every plan. Frame step, an A-B loop, snapshots and the timecode display are on paid plans; a recipient whose own KitSlate plan is paid gets them by signing in on the page. | Replay: comments on an exact frame or a time range, drawing on the frame, emoji quick reactions, pinned and labelled comments, versions with comment history, live review sessions, and comment export (XML, FCP XML, JSON, CSV, text, Avid Media Composer text). |
| LUT view | Log footage shows as Rec.709 from the camera's metadata, a LUT in the clip or on the card, or a show LUT you attach; one switch shows the original. On paid plans. | Not stated |
| Download part of a clip | Set an in and an out and download that part: WAV, MP4 and MOV in their original quality (a long-GOP clip starts on the keyframe at or before the in point), and any previewed file as a compressed MP4. On paid plans. | Dropbox's web editor lets you trim video and audio stored in your own Dropbox, then save a copy or replace the original, for files under 1 GB, under ten minutes and below 4K. A recipient downloading part of a clip from a transfer or review link: Not stated. |
| Transcripts | A transcript of each audio and video file, every line with the clip's own timecode: the words light up as it plays, a press on a line goes there, and it is searchable. Select a few words to trim to exactly that part, or attach them to a comment. Download it as text with or without timecodes, or as SRT or VTT subtitles. Made automatically by Workers AI (whisper-large-v3-turbo), with no speaker labels, so check it before you quote it. Off until the sender switches it on; on paid plans. | Not stated |
| Audio | ||
| Every audio track | On paid plans every track gets a lane with a switch, solo and a meter with peak hold and loudness, and the Audio menu adds Left, Right and Reverse; Stereo and Mono are on every plan. On a camera file's preview you hear a stereo mix, with every track listed. | Replay plays audio files (.wav, .aif, .flac, .mp3 and more) with comments. The Replay Add-On adds lossless playback up to 24-bit/96 kHz. Listening to individual tracks or channels, and meters: Not stated. |
| Audio as its own file | A sound recorder's poly WAV downloads whole on every plan; on paid plans also as one track, or split into a mono WAV per track, with the mixer's track names. | Not stated |
| Delivery and tracking | ||
| Download tracking | Per recipient: opened, played, downloaded, with the time and the speed. Open a transfer you sent and you see their page with an Activity panel only you see. Emails the first time each person downloads, on every download, or never. | Transfer: the Sent tab shows Views and Downloads per transfer; an email on each download is off by default and can be switched on per transfer. Replay: email notifications include share link views; the Add-On's watermark logs viewer IP address, date and time. |
| Your branding | On paid plans the email and the download page carry your company's name, logo, email and phone, for the company you send as. No custom domain. | Transfer: your own logo plus a background colour or image (5 MB limit each) on Standard, Professional, Education, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, Advanced and Enterprise; Professional adds brand name, website and social links. Replay Add-On: project logo and banner colour, watermark. Custom domain: Not stated. |
| Integrations | None for transfers: no editing-software panels, no cloud-storage connectors and no transfer API. Recipients come from your KitSlate crew, client and company books. | Replay: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Pro Tools, DaVinci Resolve (Studio edition), LumaFusion; Resolve comments sync both ways. Replay can import from Dropbox, your computer, Google Drive and OneDrive. Dropbox connects to Zapier on paid plans (Transfer and Replay not named). A Transfer API: Not stated. |
| Security, as published | TLS in transit; transfer files are held in Cloudflare R2, encrypted at rest. KitSlate does not hold a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation. | Dropbox says files are encrypted with 256-bit AES at rest and SSL/TLS in transit. It lists GDPR, support for HIPAA, SOC 1, 2 and 3, and (Trust page) ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, 22301 and ISMAP. Single sign-on and end-to-end encryption are listed on Advanced. Replay Add-On adds password-protected links and watermarking. |
| Terms and your files | ||
| What the recipient needs | A browser. No account and nothing to install; by opening the page or downloading, a recipient accepts the terms. | Transfer: the recipient needs no Dropbox account to open or download. Replay: reviewers need no special software or Dropbox account; they use a browser (Chrome recommended, Firefox and Safari supported).doesn’t need a Dropbox accountTransfer help, 'What is Dropbox Transfer?' |
| Who owns the files | You own the files. The licence is to store them for the period you set, stream previews to your recipients, deliver them and delete them.You own what you send.Terms §32, File transfer | Dropbox says your content is yours and that the terms give it only the limited rights needed to provide the service; you permit it to host, back up, share and scan your files. The terms cover Dropbox's services generally and do not name Transfer or Replay; team members are also bound by their team's agreement. A new version takes effect 1 January 2027 with the same wording on this point.Your Stuff is yours.Terms of Service, 'Your Stuff & Your Permissions' |
| How long files are kept | For the period you set, 1 to 30 days (7 by default); then the files are deleted and cannot be recovered. Transfer files are not part of KitSlate's backups. | Transfer: expires after 7 days on Basic, Family and Plus; on Standard, Professional, Education, Essentials, Business, Advanced, Business Plus and Enterprise you can set a date up to a year ahead (default 30 days). Expired transfers are deleted from servers 30 days later (Basic, Family, Plus) or 180 days later (others), or at once if you delete them. After you delete an account, deletion of files starts after 30 days. |
| Where files are stored | Cloudflare storage in North America (Eastern North America location hint, best effort). Choosing a region: not stated. | Files are stored in US data centres by default. Servers in Australia, the EU, Japan and the UK exist for eligible users; Dropbox ties the choice to team plans (Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus, Enterprise; 10+ licences, annual billing, billing address different from where the data sits now). You cannot pick the server; the move cannot be undone. |
| Scanning and AI training | Transfer files are not read, analysed or used to train anything, and they are not scanned for malware.We do not read, analyse or train anything on transfer files.Terms §32, File transfer | Dropbox says it scans your files to provide features, and its privacy FAQ says models that power search and sorting may be trained on your documents and metadata. Its AI principles say it will not build generative AI models from customer content without consent. It uses hash-matching and human review for its acceptable-use rules, and flags suspected malware.may be trained on your documents and metadataPrivacy Policy FAQ, question 2 ('lawful bases'), improving the Services |
| Download and fair-use limits | No download cap is stated. Transfers that exceed an allowance or break the terms may be refused, slowed or stopped. | Daily sharing bandwidth caps (stated for shared links and file requests, not Transfer by name): Basic 20 GB and up to 100,000 downloads; Plus, Family, Professional, Essentials, Standard, Business 1 TB; Advanced, Business Plus, Enterprise 4 TB. A breach pauses sharing for 24 hours or more. Egress fees: Not stated. Replay zip download: up to 10,000 files and 250 GB. |
| When a plan lapses | A cancelled plan keeps its paid features to the end of the period paid for. If a downgrade leaves you over the lower plan's limits, you are told what exceeds them and given a reasonable chance to export or reduce it before anything becomes read-only (Terms §16). Transfer links you have already sent are not ended by cancellation: each keeps working until the expiry you set, and its recipients can still download; the Pro review tools on them follow your plan at the time the page is opened (Terms §32). | Individual plan cancelled: the account becomes free Basic (2 GB) at the end of the billing period. Over 2 GB, you may not be able to sync, upload, share, move or preview, and Dropbox may delete files you own (least recently modified first, after several emails); deleted files stay recoverable for 30 days. Cancelling the Replay Add-On keeps your Replay files, but you cannot add new passwords. |
| Price | ||
| Published price | The Media Center is on every plan, the free profile included (5 GB per transfer). Solo $19, Studio $49, Production House $149 a month; Enterprise: custom pricing. Save 20% billed annually. A plan price with its seats included (1 seat on Solo, 3 seats on Studio, 8 seats on Production House); nothing per gigabyte, and recipients never need a seat. | Plans page, 'Billed yearly' view: Plus $9.99/month (1 person), Standard $15/user/month, Advanced $24/user/month. 'Billed monthly' view: $11.99, $18 and $30. Basic is free; Enterprise is contact-us. Replay Add-On: $10/user/month billed annually ($120/year) or $12/user/month billed monthly. Transfer comes with every plan. |
| Beyond transfer | ||
| What else it does | The transfer is one part of KitSlate: on paid plans the same account sends quotes that become invoices, call sheets and agreements, and keeps your crew and client books and your inventory. | Transfer is delivery only; Replay is review and approval, not an editor. Both sit inside Dropbox plans that also bundle cloud storage, sync, file recovery, PDF editing and e-signatures. |
About speed. Dropbox has a desktop app and mobile apps, and says interrupted transfers resume. KitSlate is a browser with nothing to install. Measured from our office in Manhattan on a 2 Gbps fiber connection: 1.82 Gbps up to KitSlate storage over 12 connections, 2.04 Gbps back down. That is 100 GB in about 8 min, 1 TB in about 1 h 21 min, measured 7 October 2026.
No side-by-side measurement against a desktop app has been published, so this page does not claim KitSlate is faster than one. The speed test on the Send page measures your own line before you send.
Where Dropbox Transfer and Replay’s figures come from
Read on Dropbox Transfer and Replay’s own site and help centre on 8 October 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
Dropbox Transfer and Replay · read 8 October 2026
- Largest transfer
- Storage
- Uploads from clients
- Transfer engine
- What the sender uses
- Speed, as published
- Plays in the browser
- Spec sheet
- Comments at a timecode
- Download part of a clip
- Every audio track
- Download tracking
- Your branding
- Integrations
- Security, as published
- What the recipient needs
- Who owns the files
- How long files are kept
- Where files are stored
- Scanning and AI training
- Download and fair-use limits
- When a plan lapses
- Published price
- What else it does
KitSlate · its own pages
- Largest transfer
- Storage
- Link before the upload ends
- Uploads from clients
- Transfer engine
- What the sender uses
- Speed, as published
- Plays in the browser
- Spec sheet
- Comments at a timecode
- LUT view
- Download part of a clip
- Transcripts
- Every audio track
- Audio as its own file
- Download tracking
- Your branding
- Integrations
- Security, as published
- What the recipient needs
- Who owns the files
- How long files are kept
- Where files are stored
- Scanning and AI training
- Download and fair-use limits
- When a plan lapses
- Published price
- What else it does