Sera

Sera is cloud storage for people who work with large files. You make an account on the web, put what you make into folders, and search across all of it. Images, PDFs, video and audio open in the browser instead of downloading first, and a file you delete waits in the trash until you restore it or clear it.

We built it, and it runs: the web application, the share links, the accounts, and the Mac and iPhone clients that open the same library.

Keep it private, find it fast

Files are kept to your own account and reached over encrypted connections, large uploads are broken into parts and checked, search covers everything you keep, files preview in the browser, links carry a password and an expiry, and a trash you can restore from.

Browse, preview and share in one place

A folder listed with its contents, a video opening in place rather than downloading, and a share link with a password and an expiry on it, ready to copy.

Edit straight off the cloud

Sera Drive: tick the folders you are working on and they mount as a drive with their structure intact, so an editor opens a timeline off them. Proxies are made for your video and are not metered, a clip can be pinned to the local disk, a team shares one allowance rather than one each, and the originals stay in the archive.

Mount it from a Mac app

The drive is a Mac application. You sign in with the Sera account you already have and the folders you ticked appear. There are no kernel extensions and nothing to configure.

Open the same library on a phone

Sera for iPhone is on the App Store and opens the same library, with folders and files named beside their type and size, and a bar along the bottom for files, shared, upload and settings.

Say plainly what happens to the files

A page of its own sets out how the product handles data: connections encrypted in transit, passwords hashed rather than kept, sessions that are short lived and can be revoked, and where the files actually sit. It is as plain about what the product does not do.