File sharing software that proves it got read
Send a PDF or an image as one link, with a short walkthrough from you attached to it, and see exactly which pages the other side spent their time on.
Getting the file there was never the hard part
File delivery has been a solved problem for about fifteen years. Dropbox, Drive, WeTransfer, a link in an email, they all get the bytes from you to them and they all work. That is not where deals go wrong.
Where it goes wrong is after. The file arrives, it gets opened on a phone in a queue somewhere, someone skims two pages and forwards it to a colleague with no context on it. I spent years in growth roles sending decks and proposals and then spending the weekend guessing what happened to them. A sent file is not a read file, and almost no file sharing software will tell you the difference.
Three steps, and the file explains itself
Upload the document
Drop in a PDF or an image. No conversion, no re-formatting, no asking the other side to install anything.
Share your proposal
Anyone with the link can view. No sign-in.
Record the walkthrough
Talk over it for two minutes the way you would if you were in the room, and mark the sections you want the reader to land on.
Send one link
They open it in a browser, watch, read, and you see page by page where their attention actually went.
Opened 9:14amYour voice arrives with the file
Record once and every recipient gets the same walkthrough, on their own time, at two in the morning if that is when they open it. This is the part general file sharing software cannot do, because a folder has nobody in it.
Highlights that jump to the right moment
Click a highlighted section on the document and the video jumps to where you explain it. It means someone can skip straight to the pricing question at 4:12 instead of scrubbing a twelve-minute recording.
Page-level analytics, not just an open ping
See how long each page held them, what they went back to, and when they opened it. Knowing someone spent four minutes on the scope page and none on the pricing tells you what the follow-up call is about.
Opened 9:14amThe best file sharing software depends on the job
I would rather send you somewhere else than have you sign up for the wrong thing, so this is roughly how I split it.
Storing and syncing everything your team works on
Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. LiveDocument is not storage and never will be.
Sending one very large file once, to someone you may never email again
WeTransfer or similar. Fast, no account needed on their end, job done.
Sharing a folder of files with a group who need to browse it
A shared cloud folder. A walkthrough attached to twenty files helps nobody.
Sending one document that has to be understood, not just received
This. A PDF or an image, your walkthrough, one link, page-level analytics.
We do one narrow thing. If your problem is capacity or syncing, the tools above are better at it than we are, and there is more detail in the Google Drive comparison and the WeTransfer comparison.
The rest of what it does
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File sharing software FAQs
Any tool that gets a file from you to someone else without emailing it as an attachment, usually by putting it behind a link. Most of the category is built around storage and capacity. A smaller group, including this, is built around what happens to the document after it arrives.
If the client just needs the file, a cloud link is fine and free. If the document needs explaining, and most proposals, decks and reports do, pick something that lets you attach a walkthrough and shows you which pages they read.
LiveDocument takes a PDF or an image file. It is not general file storage, so spreadsheets, video files and zip archives are not what it is for. Use a cloud drive for those.
Links can be set to expire and can be revoked at any time, which covers most day-to-day sharing. There is no watermarking and no NDA gating, so if your process requires either of those, you need a data room instead.
No. They open a link in a browser and everything plays there.