EXPIRING LINKS
Expiring links that stop working on a date you pick
Give a published site a deadline of six hours, a day, a week, a month, or an exact moment. When it passes, the link shows an expired notice instead of your content.
Free plan, free SSL, no credit card.
Plan availability
Which plans include expiring links
Scheduling an expiry starts on Starter. Turning one off is never gated, on any plan.
- Free Not included
- Starter Included
- Pro Included
- Business Included
- Enterprise Included
Read from the plan records this account is billed against, not from a page someone wrote, so it cannot disagree with what happens when you click the button. See every plan and its limits.
What it does
A deadline on the link, not a delete on the files
At the moment you chose, the address stops serving your content and starts serving a short notice saying the link has expired.
You pick from six hours, one day, seven days, thirty days, or an exact date and time in your own timezone. Nothing is destroyed when it fires: the deployment stays where it is, and bringing the site back is a matter of setting a new date, at which point the same address serves the same content again. That is the difference between an expiry and a deletion, and it is deliberate, because the most common reason to want an expiry is that you are not sure yet.
A reminder goes out before the deadline so an expiry does not surprise you, and the switch that turns one off is available on every plan including the free one. That second part matters more than it sounds: a control that can be armed on a paid plan and not disarmed after a downgrade is a trap, so cancelling is always allowed. If what you want is the opposite, a link that never goes anywhere, that is just publishing normally; every plan's links are permanent by default, which is not true of the drag-and-drop tools that delete an unclaimed upload after an hour.
How to use it
Three steps
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Publish the site
Upload as normal. The expiry is a setting on the site, so you can add it now or a week from now.
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Pick a deadline
Six hours, a day, a week, a month, or an exact moment. Custom times are read in your browser's timezone, so midnight means your midnight.
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Let it fire, or change your mind
You get a reminder before it happens. Afterwards, setting a new date puts the same content back at the same address.
Where it earns its keep
When people reach for this
A proposal that should not circulate forever
A quote with prices in it has a natural shelf life. Give it two weeks, and combine it with a password if it should not be forwarded either.
An event page that stops being true
Directions, a schedule and a dress code are actively unhelpful the week after the event. An expiry stops a stale page turning up in a search months later.
A file drop for one afternoon
Sending a large asset to a collaborator does not need to be permanent. Six hours is usually longer than anyone needs. Sharing a PDF as a link covers the document case.
The alternative
Doing this without us
The two habits this replaces are deleting things by hand and never deleting them at all.
| Droply | Remembering to take it down | |
|---|---|---|
| What happens on the day | The link expires on its own, whether or not you are looking. | Nothing, unless you remember. |
| Getting it back | Set a new date; the same content returns to the same address. | Re-upload and hope the address is still free. |
| What a visitor sees afterwards | A short notice saying the link has expired. | A missing page, or the stale content forever. |
| Warning before it happens | A reminder before the deadline. | A calendar entry you also have to set. |
Compared against manual takedown, which is the actual alternative for most people sharing a temporary link. Checked September 2026.
When this is not the right tool
An expiry controls an address. It is not a guarantee about copies that already exist.
- Anyone who downloaded the file before the deadline still has it. Expiry stops new access, it does not reach into a laptop.
- It applies to a whole site, not to one page inside it.
- It is not a delete. The content is retained so it can be restored, which is the point, but if you want the files gone you should delete the site instead. Version history is a separate setting and follows its own plan rules.
- A search engine may still show a cached description for a while after the link expires.