drop a deck →DocSend alternative
Every deck tracker starts with a signup. This one starts with your deck.
DocSend is a Dropbox product, priced per seat, per month. It has no free plan. Deckhand hands you a tracked link in 20 seconds and charges once, ever.
No account. Free forever.
What DocSend costs
Published prices, read off their page 25 Aug 2026. Month-to-month billing costs more on every plan. The full breakdown.
Standard
$30
per user, per month
1 seat, unlimited eSignatures, no watermarking
Advanced
$150
per month
3 seats, watermarking, NDAs, lightweight data rooms
Advanced Data Rooms
$180
per month
3 seats, full data rooms, audit logs
Deckhand
Free, or $99 once
Free covers the real job: unlimited decks, a tracked link each, the reader's email, and open notifications. $99 adds the rest, forever.
Side by side, including where we lose
Get a tracked link
- DocSend
- After you sign up and verify
- Deckhand
- Before you make an account
Free tier
- DocSend
- None — a 14-day trial only
- Deckhand
- Free forever, unlimited decks
Price when the round closes
- DocSend
- Cancel, or keep paying
- Deckhand
- $99 once, or nothing
Who read it, and how far
- DocSend
- Yes
- Deckhand
- Yes
Watermark the reader's email
- DocSend
- On Advanced, $150 a month
- Deckhand
- Included in $99, once
Data rooms and due diligence
- DocSend
- Yes, from $150 a month
- Deckhand
- No, and we are not building them
eSignatures and NDAs
- DocSend
- Yes
- Deckhand
- No
Recognized by investors
- DocSend
- Yes, the category default
- Deckhand
- Not yet
The last 3 rows are where DocSend beats us. Deckhand does one job: get a deck read and tell you who read it. If you need a due diligence room, buy DocSend.
Either way, the signals read the same. How to know if a VC read your deck.
Switching takes 20 seconds
1
Drop the same PDF
The deck you already sent. Pages render as images in the browser, so it is read, never downloaded.
2
Copy the link
It is live before you make an account. Paste it into the investor email you were already writing.
3
Watch your board
A reader types their email to open it. We email you within seconds, and the row turns green.
Questions
- Is there a free DocSend alternative?
- Deckhand is free forever: unlimited decks, one tracked link each, the reader's email, and open notifications. DocSend has no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Papermark is the other credible free option, and it is open source.
- How much does DocSend cost?
- On 25 Aug 2026 their page showed Standard at $30 per user per month, Advanced at $150 a month for 3 users, and Advanced Data Rooms at $180. Enterprise is quoted on a call. Month-to-month billing costs more.
- Do I need an account to send a deck with Deckhand?
- No. Drop the PDF in and the link is live. We ask for your email after the link exists, only so we can tell you when someone opens it.
- Can readers download my deck?
- No. Pages render as images in the browser, so the deck is read, never downloaded. On Lifetime, every page is watermarked with the reader's email.
- What does the $99 buy?
- Named links, so each investor gets their own URL with no email wall. Plus page-by-page attention, the reader-email watermark, revoke, expiry and a custom domain. Once, ever.
- What is Deckhand missing?
- Data rooms, eSignatures and NDAs. If your raise needs a due diligence room with audit logs, DocSend and Papermark are the right tools and we will say so.
Live demo
Watch it work on our deck first
A 12-page sample deck, and a public board where your own read lands within seconds.
No deck of your own needed.
Your deck is on your desktop. Send it tonight.
Drop it here. No account, no card, and the tracked link is yours in 20 seconds.
PDF only, up to 25 MB. Investors read it page by page in the browser, so there is nothing to download.
Get Lifetime, $99Deckhand is run end to end by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is part of why the price is $99 once instead of $30 a month.
Drop it here
Or click to pick your deck. PDF only, up to 25 MB.
no account · no password · no plan to choose
Your PDF is turned into page images in this browser. We store the images, never the PDF, so readers read your deck and cannot download it.