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    Work / 02 · Whimsy

    Branded client galleries — running on the storage you already own.

    Deliver branded photo & video galleries straight from the Drive, Dropbox, or drives you already own. Find duplicates across clouds and devices, back up encrypted, never re-upload. Built for photographers and creative studios.

    Role

    Multi-cloud file manager

    Year

    2025 — ongoing

    Surface

    Web · Desktop connector

    Status

    Open beta

    01The problem

    Deliver client work straight from your existing storage, under your own brand.

    Most client gallery platforms require you to upload your files to their servers, paying for a second storage quota. Whimsy turns the storage you already own into a client delivery system.

    Your Dropbox, Google Drive, or local drives serve proofs and deliverables directly to clients with your logo, custom domain, and custom styling. Downloads and client uploads land right back in your folders.

    Quiet light, busy desk — 35mm, in studio.

    Quiet light, busy desk — 35mm, in studio.

    02The approach

    A distributed control plane for your files. Direct, secure, and private.

    Whimsy is a control plane, not a hosting provider. We do not store your files. Transfers between your cloud accounts happen direct through provider APIs without passing through our servers, keeping your data private and your bandwidth cost zero.

    Connect with standard OAuth, and manage your assets with cross-cloud duplicate detection, unplugged drive indexing, and client-side encrypted backup.

    Specifications

    Use caseBranded client galleries · proofing · photo delivery
    Storage pathDirect from Drive, Dropbox, S3, or your local drives
    Duplicate cleanupExact, visually similar, and repeated video matching
    SecurityClient-side encryption; keys never leave your machine
    IntegrationMac, Windows & Linux local connector · 11 cloud backends

    “We do not want to hold your bytes. We just want the manager to feel like one place.”

    — Studio note

    Every provider above is available today — connect as many as you like.

    Index / Topic guides

    The Whimsy pages that are already live, linked from one place.

    These guides cover the concrete jobs Whimsy replaces: duplicate cleanup, client delivery, encrypted backup, cloud migration, desktop connector workflows, and the rest of the live topic cluster.

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