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See who opens your documentswithout a per-seat subscription

DocSend no longer has a free plan — there's a 14-day trial, then $15 per user per month to keep tracking a single document. Link in Seconds turns a deck, proposal or contract into one clean link with open tracking, a password, view-only mode and an expiry date, starting free. And the person you send it to never makes an account.

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Free: 20 links, up to 100 MB · Pro: unlimited links, bigger uploads

The closest free DocSend alternative is a trackable link service. Upload the PDF, share the link it gives you, and you get a timestamped record of every open — plus password protection, view-only mode and an expiry date on the same link. Unlike DocSend, there is no per-seat monthly fee to start and no sign-up wall for the person reading your document.

Replace a DocSend link in about a minute

  1. 1

    Upload the deck, proposal or contract

    Drop the PDF onto the card and sign in with Google — one tap, no form and no card. If you're mid-trial on DocSend, do this with the same document and compare the two links side by side before the trial runs out.

  2. 2

    Turn on the controls that matter for this document

    Password for anything confidential, view-only to hide the download button, an expiry date for a time-limited quote, and a view limit if the document should only be opened a set number of times. Each is a switch on the link, not a different product.

  3. 3

    Send the link instead of the attachment

    Paste it into the email you were about to attach the PDF to. It can't bounce on an attachment size limit, it can't get clipped by Gmail, and it opens in the recipient's browser with nothing to install.

  4. 4

    Watch the opens, then follow up at the right moment

    The view counter shows every open over the document's whole life, so you can call the investor the afternoon they read the deck rather than a guessed week later. Update the file behind the link and the same URL serves the new version.

The free plan is gone — that's why you're here

DocSend spent years as the default because it had a usable free tier: a handful of tracked documents, no card. That tier no longer exists. New users get a 14-day trial of the Advanced plan and then choose a paid plan, starting at $15 per user per month ($10 billed annually) for Personal, with Standard several times that. For a fundraising founder sending one deck, or a freelancer sending four proposals a quarter, that is a subscription priced for a sales team attached to a job that happens a few times a year. Link in Seconds starts free and stays free within its limits — no trial clock, no card, no seat count.

Your reader doesn't sign up for anything

This is the friction DocSend charges you to introduce. A DocSend link commonly asks the viewer for an email address before the document opens — that's how it attributes an open to a person. It works, and it costs you opens: an investor skimming twenty decks, or a client opening a quote on their phone between meetings, sometimes just closes the tab. A Link in Seconds link opens the document immediately in the browser. If you do want to know who specifically is reading, Pro has an optional email gate you can switch on per link — the difference is that it's your choice per document, not the default on every one.

What you actually learn about an open

Be clear on the trade here, because it's the real one. DocSend's analytics are genuinely deeper: page-by-page time on a deck tells you the investor stalled on slide 11, which is useful intelligence. Link in Seconds gives you opens over time, and on Pro a breakdown by device and country. What that answers is the question most people are actually asking — did they read it, and when — which is enough to time a follow-up. If your job depends on per-slide heatmaps across a large pipeline, DocSend earns its price. If you want to stop guessing whether the proposal was opened, you don't need a per-seat subscription to find out.

Password, view-only, expiry and view limits on the same link

The control set is where the two overlap most. You can put a password on a link, hide the download button so a document is read rather than kept, set an expiry date on a time-limited quote, and cap how many times a link can be opened. We're honest about the ceiling: view-only deters casual saving but cannot stop a screenshot, and there is no DRM here — no tool short of a managed viewer truly prevents a determined copy. What it does do is make a document unmistakably look-don't-keep, which is what a draft or a pre-signature contract usually needs.

Update the deck without re-sending the link

Fundraising means version churn — v4 on Tuesday, v5 after the Thursday call. Replace the file behind a Link in Seconds link and the same URL serves the new document, so nobody holding the old link is reading a stale deck, and you don't have to email around a correction. The view history stays attached to the link, so you can see who opened it before and after the update.

It isn't only decks

DocSend is priced and positioned around fundraising, but most of the documents people want tracked are smaller than that: an invoice you'd like to know was seen, a contract sitting in someone's inbox, a resume you sent to nine companies, a scope of work waiting on sign-off. Each is the same shape of problem — you sent a PDF and went quiet. Because a tracked link here costs nothing to create, it's worth using on all of them rather than rationing a seat licence for the two documents a year that seem to justify it.

Where DocSend still genuinely wins

An honest comparison has to name this. DocSend's per-page analytics, virtual data rooms, NDA gating, Dropbox Sign integration and team-level content management are real products that this is not. If you are running a diligence process with a data room, gating documents behind an NDA click-through, or managing a shared content library across a sales team, DocSend is built for that and Link in Seconds is not. The overlap is the common case — one document, sent to someone, and you want to know it was opened and control what they can do with it.

What it costs, plainly

Free covers 20 links that never expire, which for most people is more tracked documents than they send in a year. Pro is $7 a month or $29 a year and adds passwords, custom slugs, expiry, the email gate, advanced analytics and your own domain — and it is priced per account, not per seat. There is also a $49 one-time Lifetime option, which is roughly what three months of DocSend's cheapest plan costs.

A link you'd actually put your name on

On Pro you can set a custom slug so the URL reads like a document you meant to send rather than a random string, and serve it from your own domain or subdomain with automatic SSL. For a proposal that lands in a client's inbox next to your name, that matters more than it sounds — the delivery reads as yours end to end, and the same permanent URL can go in an email signature, a bio, or a printed QR code.

Link in Seconds vs DocSend

Link in Seconds compared with DocSend
FeatureLink in SecondsDocSend
Free planYes — 20 permanent linksNone — 14-day trial only
Starting price$7/month, per account$15/user/month ($10 annual)
Priced per seatNo — per accountYes
Viewer needs to give an emailOptional, per link (Pro)Commonly required
Open trackingFree counter; Pro adds device + countryPage-by-page time — deeper
Password on a linkProYes
View-only (no download)ProYes
Expiry date / view limitProYes
Update the file, keep the linkYesYes
Custom domainProHigher plans
Virtual data room / NDA gatingNoYes — its strength
Also hosts images, video, ZIP, websitesYesDocuments only

DocSend plan details as publicly reported for September 2026 (no free tier; Personal from $15/user/month, $10 billed annually). Plans change — check docsend.com for current terms.

Frequently asked questions

Still stuck? Ask us directly — a real person answers.

No. DocSend removed its free tier; new users get a 14-day trial of the Advanced plan and then need a paid plan, starting at $15 per user per month ($10 billed annually). This is the main reason people go looking for an alternative — free document tracking effectively disappeared from the market.

Keep reading

The free DocSend alternative, in detailWhat disappeared when DocSend dropped its free plan, and how to replace it.
Send a pitch deck and see who opened itThe fundraising version: watch opens roll in without an investor signing up.
How to know if someone opened your PDFFive honest methods, from free to enterprise, and what each really tells you.
Send a proposal your client will actually openStop attaching PDFs and hoping — and follow up at the right moment.

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