We’re happy to announce that Infinit is making another leap forward. Today, the desktop app is officially available in public beta meaning that you can now use Infinit without any restrictions.
To highlight this new release, we wanted to show you exactly what we mean when we say, “Infinit is the fastest file transfer application ever built.” After all, everyone and their moms claim their app’s speed is unparalleled. Let’s put that to the test. The chart below shows the performance of Infinit and 7 of the most widely used applications for sending files. The comparison is done for transferring the same 100MB file over the Internet, at fixed upload and download bandwidths of 3Mb/s.
You can see that Infinit clocked in at 5:29, 2.5 times faster than WeTransfer and just under 2 times faster than second place, Hightail’s YouSendIt service, which clocked in at 10:14. CloudApp and Dropbox performed the most poorly, at transfer times nearly 3 times longer than that of Infinit. Because Infinit is a peer-to-peer application, whereas the others are Cloud-based, uploading and downloading occur concurrently, effectively cutting the total transfer time down by nearly 50%.
Using a peer-to-peer configuration has major advantages that largely transcend physical distances. Below we show the same comparison for a 2GB transfer in a local network (e.g. the same Wifi network).
The most noticeable difference is Infinit’s transfer time of only about 13 minutes, versus the next fastest tool, Hightail’s YouSendIt, which logged more than 3.5 hours. WeTransfer came in at 14 times slower than Infinit, and Dropbox was the slowest again at over 5 hours. The peer-to-peer technology underlying Infinit automatically recognizes the quickest way to connect two people. So if you’re on the same Wifi network as your counterpart, your transfer simply goes as fast as your Wifi connection’s speed. Every other tool still has to sync with the Cloud, meaning that the proximity of a sender and a recipient doesn’t matter at all.
Infinit is already being used by hundreds of creatives around the world. Many of you are sound and video professionals, digital artists in communication and branding or freelancers. Some of you use Infinit to send personal photo albums, videos or songs. As an application designed with productivity and speed at its heart, Infinit just makes sending anything easy.
Thank you to the many of you that helped us test our alpha and private beta versions over the past few months. Your feedback and suggestions have been invaluable, and we’re very excited to continue this adventure with you.