Toldacuccot.hu stopped on 1 July 2022 after 16 years, and today the domain serves nothing. Anyone who sent a large file in Hungary between 2006 and 2022 most likely did it through this site, and old guides, forum answers and university course materials still point to it. If you arrived here from one of those links: the service really is gone, but what replaced it is better than anything Toldacuccot ever offered. This article goes through what happened, what Toldacuccot could do, and the seven working alternatives as of September 2026.
What happened to Toldacuccot?
Toldacuccot launched in 2006 and, for its time, did exactly what Hungarian users needed: you uploaded a file without registering, the recipient got a link, done. In the mid-2010s it allowed 400 MB for free, 850 MB with registration and 2 GB with a subscription — plenty for a photo series or a presentation back then.
On 1 July 2022 the operator announced the shutdown; HVG covered it under the headline "Hungary's most popular file-transfer site closes after 16 years". There was little official explanation, but the background is familiar across the industry: free file transfer is expensive (storage, bandwidth, abuse handling), and the international players arrived with bigger limits. The same fate met Mozilla's Firefox Send in 2020 after a year and a half, and several smaller Hungarian services (Oriáslevél, Nagydarab, Fileposta) that vanished quietly.
What remains: thousands of web pages still linking to toldacuccot.hu. If you run one of them, it is worth updating — your readers land on an error page.
What Toldacuccot could do, and what you get for free today
The comparison is unambiguous: what Toldacuccot sold as a subscription in 2016 (2 GB) is exceeded today by every serious free service, in several cases without any sign-up.
What did not grow along with the limits is convenience: WeTransfer has required an account for free transfers since 2025, and several services cap the link's lifetime at 3–7 days. Toldacuccot's appeal was precisely that it was Hungarian, simple and asked for nothing — so we ranked the alternatives from that angle. We covered WeTransfer's changes and the international alternatives in a separate article.
The 7 alternatives, in order
1. FileMv – the Hungarian successor, no sign-up
FileMv launched in 2026 with the explicit goal of there being, once again, a Hungarian, no-registration service for free file sharing. Drag the file in, get a link, done; free up to 100 MB per file without an account and up to 5 GB with a free account, the file and the link never expire — nothing is deleted automatically — and it is stored on servers in the European Union (France), which matters for GDPR in business use. With a free account you can protect the link with a password. Hungarian interface, Hungarian support, and the recipient does nothing but download. If you loved Toldacuccot because it was simple, this is the closest experience.
2. SwissTransfer – for really large files
The free service of Swiss provider Infomaniak allows up to 50 GB, no sign-up, the link lives up to 30 days, and a password can be added for free. Files are stored in Switzerland. The downside: the link lives 15 days by default (extendable to at most 30), and the interface is not Hungarian.
3. TransferNow – 5 GB, 7 days, with a password
A French service, free up to 5 GB, no sign-up, 7-day expiry, free password protection. One of the most balanced free plans, with EU storage. The interface is English or French.
4. Filemail – 5 GB, simple interface
A Norwegian service: 5 GB, 7 days, no sign-up. Password protection is only on the paid plan, so we do not recommend it for sensitive material.
5. WeTransfer – the best known, but it now asks for an account
For a long time the international default. The free plan goes up to 3 GB, but since 2025 it requires an account, allows 10 transfers per 30 days, and the link expires after 3 days. If your recipients know it, it works, but the Toldacuccot-style "just upload and done" feel is gone.
6. Mammutmail – the other Hungarian one, up to 1 GB
Mammutmail still works: free up to 1 GB, up to 20 recipients, files kept for 5 days, password protection available. Hungarian interface; the site does not say where its servers are. The limit is small by today's standards (a 4K phone video easily exceeds 1 GB), but for smaller files and Hungarian recipients it is perfectly fine.
7. Google Drive / OneDrive – if you have an account anyway
Not a transfer service but storage — yet Gmail and Outlook automatically offer it above 25 MB and 20 MB respectively. 15 GB (Google) or 5 GB (Microsoft) of free storage, and the link lives until you delete it. More cumbersome for one-off sends (sharing settings, the file occupies your space), but the best option for collaboration.
Which one should you pick?
If you want a Hungarian interface and fast, no-sign-up sending: FileMv or Mammutmail. If the file is over 5 GB: SwissTransfer. If the recipient is a business and expects a password: FileMv or TransferNow. If you work on the same file together for weeks: Google Drive. The detailed method guide, the email limits and the decision chart are in our article on sending large files by email.
Website owners: fix the dead link
If your site still references toldacuccot.hu (an old "useful links" page, a 2017 blog post, a course handout), your readers end up at a dead address, and Google also devalues dead outbound links. Replace it with a live service; if you choose FileMv, we will gladly send you a sentence of fresh facts so you do not have to look them up. Write to hi@filemv.com.
