You exported the proposal hours ago and it is sitting in your downloads folder, finished. Then it bounced off their inbox size limit, or it arrived and they are squinting at it on a phone. Rebuilding it as a web page is not going to happen for that. Drop the .pdf in exactly as it is — no conversion, no export step, no second version to keep track of — and you get one private, unguessable link. It opens in any browser, on any screen, with nothing to download and no account on their end. The bytes we serve are your file, unchanged.
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Drop the PDF straight in — the same file that came out of InDesign, Figma, Keynote, Word, or whatever you built the document in. Nothing rewrites it: miinideck stores your bytes untouched and generates the viewer page around them, so there is no conversion step for your layout, your spacing, or your embedded fonts to survive. You get an unguessable link in seconds, and for a quick one-off you don't need an account at all.
The person you send it to taps the link and reads the pages in their browser, scrolling straight through — no PDF reader to install, no download prompt to accept, no bouncing out into another app on a phone. That is the practical difference between a link and an attachment: your email carries a URL, so the size ceiling that belongs to their mailbox — not to you — never enters into it, and there is nothing sitting in their downloads folder to go stale.
The link is private by default. It is unguessable and carries a no-index tag, so the document stays out of search results and reaches exactly the people you sent it to. Add a password when the numbers are sensitive, and let the link expire when the window closes. Replace the PDF later — a corrected figure, a second round — and the link stays the same, so the URL they bookmarked always opens the current version instead of a copy you can no longer reach.
On a paid plan the miinideck badge comes off the page, so what the client opens reads as yours end to end, and while every plan shows how many times the link has been opened, Solo and up add when it was last opened and a day-by-day count — which is the question you are usually asking two days after you send a proposal.
No. Drop the .pdf itself. miinideck stores the file byte for byte and builds a viewer page around it, so there is no conversion for your layout to get lost in — the pages your reader sees are the pages you exported. Converting is worth doing when you actually want the document to become a web page: live links that update, something interactive, content that reflows properly on a phone. If that is what you are after, export HTML from the tool that made the document and drop that instead. If what you have is a finished PDF and what you need is a link, this is the short path.
Open the link. No account, no sign-in, no app to install, no software on their side at all — the pages render in whatever browser they already have, on a laptop or a phone. Nothing has to be saved to their machine before they can read it, which also means there is no attachment for a mail filter to strip or a size cap to bounce.
Not by default. Every link is unguessable and ships a no-index tag, so the document stays out of search results and is reachable only by the people you hand the URL to. For a second gate, put a password on it — anyone holding the link still needs the passphrase. And if you ever do want a document to be findable, that is an explicit per-document switch you turn on yourself, never something that happens quietly.
A No-account drop — no sign-up at all — takes a file up to 3 MB and self-destructs after 7 days, which suits a one-off text document but not a heavily designed one. The free tier takes 10 MB per file with 10 MB of storage in total. Solo at $4.99/mo raises that to 25 MB per file and 100 MB of storage; Studio at $14.99/mo takes 50 MB per file and 500 MB. Design-led documents climb faster than people expect once photography is in them, so a print-quality export is worth checking before you decide which of those you need — and exporting at screen resolution rather than print usually settles it.
Everything that was already baked in when you exported it. The document is static: no animation, no video, no working form, no transitions — a PDF has never had those and a link does not add them. Type and images are fixed at the size you chose, and pages do not reflow to fit a phone the way a web page does, so a dense A4 layout is still a dense A4 layout on a small screen. And the content is a snapshot of the moment you exported: a figure that changes tomorrow changes in the source document, and you re-upload. We would rather say this on the way in than have you discover it after you send the link — if any of it is a dealbreaker for this particular document, the honest answer is to build it as a web page instead of a PDF.
Depends which password. If it needs one just to open, we stop it at the upload step rather than hand you a link that shows every reader an error — a browser viewer has nowhere to ask them for the PDF's own password. If the password only restricts printing or copying, the file still opens and uploads normally. Either way, if the point of the lock was to control who reads it, put the password on the link instead: it gates the page before anything loads, it is free on any account, and your reader types it once in the browser with no PDF app. [Password-protect the link, not the PDF](/use-cases/password-protect-a-pdf-link) walks through both passwords and which one breaks link sharing.
Yes. Turn on Review and anyone with the link can click the exact spot they mean and leave a note — no account on their end — and each note stays pinned to that spot for you to work through and resolve. Collecting and resolving comments is free on every plan. On Studio you can also export the whole thread as markdown to paste into Claude or Codex, and there every note carries the page it was left on — for example near "Page 3 of 5" — along with its position on that page.
Whenever the file itself is the thing they need, rather than a chance to read it. A contract going into an e-signature flow, a document a procurement or records system wants uploaded, artwork going to a printer, anything a compliance process has to keep its own copy of — send the file. It is also just courtesy: if someone asks for the PDF, give them the PDF. The two are not rivals, and the split most people land on is to attach the file where a system needs it and paste the link where a human is going to read it.
A consultancy proposal goes out as one link in the body of the email, so it never meets an attachment limit and you can replace the file after a scope change without asking anyone to delete the old one. A deck exported to PDF opens as a scrolling document rather than a download, which is how most people read a deck they were sent anyway — and if it is going to a client, a password and an expiry date fit the pitch window. A CV as a link renders the same on the recruiter's screen as on yours; where an employer's portal demands an uploaded file, upload the file there and put the link in the message alongside it.
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