What is Spike
Keep your files.Get paid on the same link.
Spike is a private library for photos, video, audio, and documents. Share a blurred preview when you want people to see the work, and put a price on the folder when you want them to pay for it.
How it works
Four states of the same folder
You upload once. After that the link can be a preview, a password gate, or checkout.
Upload your files into a private, encrypted folder.
Drag your files into a private, encrypted folder. Everything stays in your library, safe and yours.
Send one link with a blurred preview. Add a password or expiry when you need it.
Set a price and the link becomes checkout. Buyers pay and the full files unlock instantly.
Payment clears and the download opens. You get paid on your own link, no invoice chase.
The folder
What a folder can do
Stay private
Every file lives in an encrypted folder. Your library is yours. Nothing is public until you turn on a link and choose who sees it.
Show a preview
Blur images so the work is visible without giving the originals away. Full-quality files stay locked until you release them.
Take payment
Price a folder in pounds. Buyers check out on that same link and the download unlocks. No separate invoice.
Set the rules
Leave the link open, lock it with a password, or give it an expiry. You decide who gets in and for how long.
Look like you
Name, logo, and appearance on the page people actually open, so it reads as your delivery, not a generic drop.
See what landed
Views and downloads as aggregate metrics. Enough to know what is working, without a tracking pitch or a profile of who opened what.
The usual tools
Not a transfer. Not a store.
Transfer tools move a file once. Marketplaces list a product.
Spike keeps the files in your library and lets the same link preview, gate, or charge.
You sell on your own link, not a catalogue listing. Spike's plan fee is 5%, 1%, or 0% of the sale, taken from your payout.
Buyers pay the price you set. Stripe's card fee still applies. See pricing · Fees in the FAQ
Who it is for
If you send files for a living
Photographers, designers, producers, and anyone tired of expiry dates plus a separate payment step.
Journal
From the articles
Longer notes on paid links, previews, and why a library beats a transfer that expires.
Straight answers
Worth knowing before you start
Do my files expire?
No. Files stay in your library. Free-plan share links last three days; Pro and Business links stay until you turn them off.
Do I need an account?
You can drop files on the homepage without signing in. An account keeps the folder, lets you sell, and syncs across devices.
Does Spike take a cut?
You sell on your own link, not a catalogue listing. Spike's plan fee is 5%, 1%, or 0% of the sale, taken from your payout. Stripe's card fee still applies.