Plans
We make Loop, a Mac app that also shares tracked links. Every DocSend fact on this page comes from DocSend's own pricing page and help pages, read on 6 November 2026, or from the Internet Archive's capture of that pricing page, and each links to the page it came from. The one exception is a sentence about search results, which says what we saw. Our Loop vs DocSend page compares the two tools feature by feature. This page does not.
DocSend's pricing page lists four paid plans on the list shown here, each with a one-line label: Personal for secure sharing, Standard for multi-file secure sharing, Advanced for advanced security and Advanced Data Rooms for complete deal control. Below them the page says "Contact us for customizable solutions built to your specific needs", with a Contact Sales button.
| Plan | Billed Yearly | Billed Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | $10 a user ($120) | $15 a user ($180) |
| Standard | $45 a user ($540) | $65 a user ($780) |
| Advanced | $150 ($1,800) | $250 ($3,000) |
| Data Rooms | $180 ($2,160) | $300 ($3,600) |
The last row is Advanced Data Rooms, shortened to fit the table. These are US dollars a month, with the year's total in brackets, read on 6 November 2026 with the pricing page's Billed yearly and Billed monthly buttons each pressed. Personal and Standard are priced per user, and the two Advanced plans are priced for 3 users, because the page says "3 users included". The page prints no yearly total, so each bracket is the monthly figure times 12, worked out in a script. A footnote on the page says sales tax "will be automatically included for jurisdictions where Dropbox Inc. and Dropbox International are registered". We could not confirm whether these list prices already include tax.
Paying yearly saves $60 a user on Personal, $240 on Standard, $1,200 on Advanced and $1,440 on Advanced Data Rooms across a year. The page's own label is "Save up to 40%". By our arithmetic, Personal saves 33.3 percent, Standard 30.8 percent and the two Advanced plans 40 percent.
The page serves a second list on other loads. In 20 fresh loads in a web browser on 6 November 2026, roughly half showed the list above and roughly half showed a list with no Personal plan and Standard at $30 a user a month billed yearly ($360 a year) and $43 billed monthly ($516), with Advanced and Advanced Data Rooms unchanged. Our Loop vs DocSend page shows both. The Internet Archive's capture of 17 August 2026 lists $10, $45, $150 and $180 on its yearly setting and $15, $65, $250 and $300 on its monthly one, the same figures as the list above. If you were quoted $30 for Standard, you saw the second list, so check the page in front of you.
Trial
The pricing page answers its "Is there a trial?" question with a free 14-day trial of Advanced Data Rooms, and a footnote says unlimited visitors are not available on free trials. Every plan's button reads Get Started Free, and the page lists no free plan beyond the trial.
Features
These are the rows of the pricing page's comparison table where the plan changes, read icon by icon on 6 November 2026. The exception is screenshot protection, which is not in that table and appears only on the Advanced plan card.
| Feature | First Plan | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Branded viewer | Standard | None on Personal |
| Visitor export | Standard | Shows downloads |
| Multi-file link | Standard | Personal must upgrade |
| Verified email | Advanced | Confirms the address |
| Watermarks | Advanced | Email, IP address, date |
| NDA step | Advanced | Before the visitor views |
| Screenshots | Advanced | Protection, data room links |
| Audit log | Advanced Data Rooms | Group permissions too |
The pricing page gives 10 GB a user of storage on Personal and 50 GB a user on the other three plans, and a 2 GB largest upload on every plan. Its table puts "Share multiple files with single link" on Standard and up, and the link settings page says a Personal subscriber who wants to share several pieces of content must upgrade. DocSend's screenshot protection page, updated 28 August 2026, says the setting is for Advanced and Advanced Data Rooms and can be enabled on data room links and groups.
Downloads
Whether a reader can save or print a document is one setting on the link, Allow downloads, in the Add extra security settings section. DocSend's link settings page, updated 3 February 2026, says visitors can then download and print straight from the document viewer, and recommends exporting the file as a PDF if you want the saved copy to stay un-editable. The page says its features are on all plans unless it states otherwise, and it names no plan for this setting. The pricing page's Personal card lists only "Basic sharing controls", so we could not confirm that Personal has the setting.
| Control | What It Does | Lowest Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Allow downloads | Shows save and print icons | No plan stated |
| Password | Visitors must enter it | No plan stated |
| Expiration | Ends access on a date | No plan stated |
| Verify email | Confirms the address | Advanced |
| Watermark | Text or visitor details | Advanced |
| Agreement | NDA or terms first | Advanced |
The rows come from the link settings page, which marks the plan only where a setting is limited.
You can change the setting after the link is out. In Content library, open the document, click the more options icon next to the link, choose Edit link settings and click Update Link. DocSend's update page, updated 10 December 2025, says link changes happen in real time. The disable page, updated the same day, adds a Link accessibility toggle in the All links section that restricts access to a document immediately.
Some files can only be shared as a download: archives such as zip and rar, rtf and txt files, and spreadsheets over 40 MB. The download-only files page, updated 9 February 2026, says this applies to Standard and up, that these files always have downloading on, cannot be previewed or watermarked, and get no page-by-page analytics.
The watermark page, updated 25 September 2026, covers Advanced and up. It allows static text plus the visitor's email address, IP address, account name, date and time in UTC, on PDF, Keynote, PowerPoint and Word files, and says watermarks help deter unauthorized downloading and sharing. It does not say whether a saved download carries the watermark, so we leave that open.
If you are the sender and lost your own copy, the owner download page, updated 31 July 2026, says to open the document in Content library, click more options and choose Download.
Readers
A reader has one lever, which is to ask. The table shows who decides each case, from DocSend's pages for visitors and for Spaces.
| Situation | What You Can Do | Who Decides |
|---|---|---|
| Download icon | Click it to save | Sender allowed it |
| No download icon | Ask the sender | Sender's setting |
| You need to print | Use print icon, or ask | Sender's setting |
| Word or Excel file | Download first, then print | Sender's setting |
| Many files, one link | Use the download icon | Space owner's setting |
| Space link expired | Contact the Space admin | Space admin |
DocSend's visitor page, updated 10 December 2025, says you can click the download icon in the top right corner of the viewer when the owner has enabled downloading, and that the print icon sits in the same corner. It adds that PowerPoint, Word and spreadsheet files cannot be printed in the viewer, so you download them first. If the icons are missing, the page says the owner has restricted downloading or printing and recommends reaching out to the owner to update the link settings.
In a data room, which DocSend calls a Space, the Spaces page updated 9 February 2026 says a visitor can download folders, zip files or the whole Space when downloading is enabled. It offers Email download link for large downloads, leaves out files that are not downloadable, and says URL links cannot be downloaded.
In search results for saving a DocSend deck as a PDF (we used Brave Search on 6 November 2026), most of the first ten were tools, or guides to tools, that say they copy a deck whatever the sender chose. We do not name or link them. A sender who turned downloads off made a choice, and DocSend's own advice is to ask. A short message does it: "Could you turn on downloads for this link, or send me the original file?"
After a Download
The sender can see that a download happened. DocSend's export page, updated 9 February 2026, says the visit export for Standard and up has a Downloaded at column, "When downloaded from the DocSend document viewer", and a Space export adds Printed at. We did not check what Personal's activity view shows.
What a reader does with a saved file is outside the sender's view. None of the help pages linked here says a saved copy can be recalled or made to stop working. That is a gap in what DocSend published, not a statement about the product. The disable page describes switching a link off as restricting access to the document, and says nothing about copies already saved.
For a sender, that points to a short list:
- Send a link, not a file. Switch Allow downloads off for a deck you want read in the browser.
- Add a watermark on Advanced and up if the reader's details should sit on every page.
- Screenshot protection is on Advanced and up for data room links. DocSend's page on it says it cannot guarantee that people will not take screenshots, screen recordings or photos with another device.
- None of these is copy protection. A reader can still photograph a screen, as DocSend's own page says.
Loop
Loop is a Mac app by Theodore HQ that turns a file into your own tracked link, and it fits one narrow case: you send from a Mac and want a few DocSend-style controls without a yearly plan. Its sender settings carry similar names: Allow Downloads ("Turn off and they can only read it in the browser."), Ask for Email, Watermark (shows the reader's email on every page, and needs Ask for Email), Password and Expires. Loop records each download and notifies you of the first one per reader's browser, while Loop runs on your Mac. Our Loop vs DocSend page has the full comparison.
Your own branded link, with notes on the exact second. $49 once.
Limits
Loop is not a DocSend replacement for a deal.
- It has no data rooms. There is no NDA step before viewing, no group permissions and no data room audit log.
- Turning Allow Downloads off is not copy protection. It hides the download buttons and refuses the download link. The page can still be read in a web browser, and a reader can still photograph a screen.
- The watermark is on the pages in the reader. The file a download hands out is the original as you shared it, as far as we read the app, and we have not tested a download with a watermark on.
- A typed email is checked for format, and against any Allowed or Blocked list you set. Loop does not send a message to confirm the address, so the watermark shows whatever address the reader types.
- It works from a Mac only. Readers open links in a web browser.
- Alerts are Mac notifications while Loop runs. Loop itself sends no email or phone alert.
- We do not promise a maximum file size.
Cost
For one person on yearly billing, the list with Personal puts DocSend Personal at $120 a year ($360 over three years) and Standard, the first plan with a branded viewer, at $540 a year ($1,620 over three years), read on 6 November 2026. Loop is $49 once for one person, so across three years Standard costs $1,571 more than Loop, and Personal costs $311 more, though Personal has no branding. On the page's other list, Standard is $30 a month, $360 a year ($1,080 over three years), which is $1,031 more than Loop.
Loop's files live in your own Cloudflare account, which charges nothing up to 10 GB and bills you past that. Cloudflare's pricing page, updated 30 October 2026, lists $0.015 per GB-month and no data-transfer charge for downloads. The 14-day free trial starts the first time you open Loop and takes no payment, with a "Shared with Loop" badge on your pages until you add a licence. For other costs of sending files, see File Sharing Cost.