The story of Tarkle, formerly Cloudbrand and Sharebrand

The story of Tarkle is a story about names. The product ran under the names Cloudbrand and Sharebrand, and all of those names now belong to one product: Tarkle. The move from Cloudbrand is also told in Cloudbrand is now Tarkle.

The idea behind the product stayed the same. A business that sends work to clients should be able to do it from its own domain and under its own name.

Why the product was built for branded file sharing

The product was built for branded file sharing: sending files to clients through your own link, with your own logo on the page they open. Today Tarkle describes itself as a cloud storage and file-sharing platform for freelancers, agencies, and client-facing businesses.

The story of Tarkle: one name, one product

Cloudbrand and Sharebrand are now Tarkle. There is one product, and it comes in three plans: Free, Pro and Agency. You can start on Free and upgrade to Pro or Agency for more storage, team collaboration and client workspaces.

What Tarkle does today

• Share by link. Send files and folders with one branded link, decide who can open it and see what happens next.

• Brand the pages. Your logo, colours and favicon on every transfer page, request page and portal.

• Collect files. Anyone with the link can send files to a folder in your workspace, with no sign-in.

• Set an expiry. Set a date after which a transfer or request link stops working.

• Protect and limit. You can protect a transfer with a password, also on Free. Burn after read lets a transfer link be used once: the first download uses it up and later attempts are refused.

• Show without downloads. View-only transfers let people look at files without a download.

• Give clients a portal. On Pro and Agency, each client signs in with their email and sees what you shared with them.

• Get paid. Paid transfers let you charge for access through your own Stripe account, on Pro and Agency.

If you want to test first, Free includes file sharing and file requests.

Free, Pro and Agency

Free costs $0 forever and needs no credit card. It gives you 5 GB of storage, uploads up to 1 GB each, and file sharing and file requests. Free keeps deleted items in the recovery bin for 30 days.

Pro costs $29 per month when billed monthly or $228 per year when billed annually. It adds 3 TB of cloud storage, uploads up to 200 GB, two workspaces, unlimited team members, a fully branded client portal and 90-day file recovery. Slack alerts for views, downloads and uploads are on Pro and Agency.

Agency costs $59 per month when billed monthly or $588 per year when billed annually. It includes everything in Pro, plus 20 workspaces for your clients, 6 TB of cloud storage and a 100% white-label platform. Your clients log in and manage their files and team on your own domain, and the Powered by Tarkle backlink becomes your agency name when White label is on and the Agency plan is active.

Compare the plans on the pricing page for the prices. For the full list of what Pro includes, read what is included with Tarkle Pro.

Try the next feature: file requests

If you have only sent transfers so far, try a file request next. A file request gives clients one link, and what they send lands in a folder in your workspace, so you stop chasing attachments. Read file requests to see how it works, or start with how to create a file transfer, which adds files, then sets the title, access choices and link.

Deleted items are kept too. The recovery bin holds them for 30 days on Free and 90 days on Pro, so a file you remove by mistake can still be restored for a while.

What to remember about Tarkle

Tarkle is the one product behind the names Cloudbrand and Sharebrand. Free costs $0 forever and needs no credit card. Pro adds 3 TB of cloud storage and uploads up to 200 GB, and Agency adds 20 workspaces for your clients. Start for free.