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Both put your brand on shared files. ShareFile is $594 a year for three users with branding. Loop is $49 once, for one person, on your own domain.
You share from a Mac and want your brand, tracking and signing, paid for once.
Not for: a client portal with logins and tasks, or sharing from Windows.
You run client work through a portal with signing, workflows and compliance support.
Not for: anyone who would rather not pay per user, every year.
Loop
Loop is a Mac app that turns any file into your own branded link, and follows every open, page and signature.
Loop sends files to clients as your own branded links and collects files back with Requests. You see who opened each link and how long they read every page, and clients can mark up and sign without an account. Files stay in your own Cloudflare account. It is $49 once for one person, or $199 once for five.
ShareFile
ShareFile is a file sharing and client portal service from Progress, with e-signatures and workflows for businesses.
You upload files and share them by link or through a client portal that carries your logo, colours and subdomain. Premium adds e-signatures, requests, tasks, forms and workflow automation, with HIPAA, FINRA and SEC eligibility. Every plan has unlimited client users, link expiry and activity logs. Plans run from $16.50 a user a month to $69.30 for data rooms, billed yearly, with a three-user minimum.
| Feature |  Loop | ShareFile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ||
| Smallest purchase | $49 once, one person | $594 a year, three users |
| Five people | $199 once | $990 a year |
| Over three years | $49 | $1,782 |
| Free trial | 14 days | Premium and up |
| Sharing | ||
| Your brand | Logo, colours, typeface | Logo, colours, subdomain |
| Your own domain | Included | A ShareFile subdomain |
| Where files live | Your Cloudflare account | ShareFile's cloud |
| Platform | Mac app | Web, desktop and mobile |
| Link expiry | 1 to 90 days, or never | Every plan |
| Client portal | Not offered | Enhanced on Premium |
| Tracking | ||
| Who opened it | Every open and page | Activity logs and reports |
| Reader analytics | Time, video, company | Click trails, Virtual Data Room |
| Review | ||
| Signatures | Included, in order | Premium and up |
| Notes and markup | Draw, highlight, type | Feedback and approval |
| Workflows and forms | Not offered | Premium and up |
Compared by the Loop team. Loop Pro against ShareFile Advanced, the first plan with your own branding, billed yearly at $16.50 a user a month with a three-user minimum. ShareFile's figures read from sharefile.com/pricing and its client portal page on 13 October 2026. Every price comparison.
Loop costs $49 once. ShareFile Advanced, its first plan with custom branding, costs $594 a year at the three-user minimum. That is $16.50 a user a month billed yearly, or $18.15 billed monthly, so three years comes to $1,782. Premium, which adds e-signatures, is $26 a user a month.
For five people, Loop Team is $199 once and ShareFile Advanced is $990 a year. Loop's only running cost is Cloudflare storage, free up to 10 GB a month.
Both put your logo and colours on what the reader sees. ShareFile includes custom branding on every plan, with a subdomain, and its portal carries your brand from the login screen to the last task. Loop adds your own typeface and your own domain. Choose ShareFile for a branded portal your clients return to, and Loop for a branded link you send once and then follow.
With Loop, your files and links live in your own Cloudflare account. Every file, view and signature is kept there, and links you have sent keep working after the trial. ShareFile keeps your files in its own cloud, up to 1 TB a user, and 1 GB a licence on Virtual Data Room. That storage is included in its price. Loop's is billed to you by Cloudflare, and is free up to 10 GB a month.
For ongoing client work, ShareFile is the better tool. Premium and up add a client portal where clients log in to files, tasks, requests and e-signatures, with workflows, forms and HIPAA, FINRA and SEC eligibility. Its e-signatures add signer identity checks and support for eIDAS signatures. Loop shares files as links and takes a simple electronic signature, but has no portal, tasks or workflows.
Loop is $49 once for one person. ShareFile Advanced is $16.50 a user a month billed yearly, with a three-user minimum, so $594 a year.
Yes, for sharing files under your own brand with tracking and signing. Loop is a Mac app you pay for once, with your own domain and your files in your own Cloudflare account. It has no client portal, tasks or workflows, so for client work run through a portal, ShareFile is the better fit.
Billed yearly, Advanced is $16.50 a user a month, Premium is $26, Enterprise is $35 and Virtual Data Room is $69.30. Billed monthly, they are $18.15, $28.59, $42 and $77. Every plan has a three-user minimum, and Virtual Data Room five. Prices checked 13 October 2026.
Not on its pricing page, which lists four paid plans from $16.50 a user a month billed yearly. Premium and up show a Try Free link. Loop has a 14-day free trial with everything included, then costs $49 once.
No. Loop gives each person a branded link with your logo, colours and domain, and Requests lets people send files to you. It has no client logins, tasks, forms or workflows. If you run client work through a portal, ShareFile is the better fit.
Yes. Loop signing runs in the order you set, with reminders you send in one click, a simple electronic signature (a typed name) and a signed copy with a record. ShareFile e-signatures start on Premium, with templates, bulk send and signer identity checks.
Not as a migration. Download Loop and connect a free Cloudflare account, which Loop walks you through in a few minutes. Then share the same files again as new links with your own logo, colours and domain. Tracking starts from the first open.