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24 alternatives to Papermark – the open-source DocSend alternative with custom domains

Hi HN! We’re Marc and Iuliia from Papermark (https://papermark.io). We're building an open-source, modern document sharing platform with real-time engagement analytics and 100% customization. It all started as a tweet [1] and led to our launch on Product Hunt [2] last month. We crossed over 1000 stars and over 10 contributors on GitHub (https://github.com/mfts/papermark). Incumbents, like DocSend, founded in the early 2010s have been acquired already and just don't innovate anymore. Their main priority is enterprise clients. As founders and developers ourselves…

Papermark is an open-source document sharing platform designed for sending pitches, proposals, and other documents with real-time engagement analytics. Built as an alternative to DocSend, it offers custom domains, deep… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Papermark – the open-source DocSend alternative with custom domains launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Papermark▲794

    Papermark is a secure data room platform for dealmakers, founders, and finance teams. It lets you organize documents, set granular permissions, add NDA gating and watermarking, and track page-level analytics to see what drives decisions. Teams use it for M&A, fundraising, due

    2023 · papermark.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source AI document assistant

    2023 · papermark.com · its alternatives →

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    Documenso▲760

    Enterprise-Grade Signature Infrastructure for Everyone

    2023 · documenso.com · its alternatives →

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    Mark Copy▲580

    Writing has never been so fun and easy

    2022 · markcopy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex, inline comments, tables, and callouts to name a few. Features - Collaborative real-time editor - Spaces (Teamspace) - User permissions - Groups - Comments - Page history - Nested pages - Search - File attachments You can find screenshots of the product on the website. Website:…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🔥 The free & Open Source DocuSign alternative. Contribute to OpenSignLabs/OpenSign development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Collect websites, images, and videos into visual boards

    Jan 2026 · bookmarkify.io · its alternatives →

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    hey hn, i’m alana, founder of basecase and creator of docbase www.getdocbase.com docbase is an open-source alternative to docsend, which lets you securely share documents and track engagement in real-time. with docbase, you can upload any document, get a secure link (with or without a password or expiration date), and view who interacts with it and when. one main use case is for founders to send their memos/decks to potential investors. as a founder and investor myself, it’s a tool i use all the time to both send and receive pitch documents. the idea came from a tweet [0], which…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there HN! Meet Linkwarden, a fully self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages. Please also visit/star our GitHub repo [1]. Linkwarden was built using TypeScript and NextJS, backed by a PostgreSQL database for the lighter-weight data. The rest of the data can be chosen either to be stored on the filesystem, or stored on the cloud on Digital Ocean Space/AWS S3, the reason for the cloud storage solution was for the Cloud offering [2], we realized that the preserved webpages (archives) take up space pretty quickly and S3 was…

    2023 · linkwarden.app · its alternatives →

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    Pitchwise▲198

    Send documents and data rooms as secure, trackable links. Know who opens them, what they’re reading and when to follow-up. #1 Papermark and DocSend alternative.

    2025 · pitchwise.se · its alternatives →

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    Protect your most sensitive documents automatically

    2020 · docsend.com · its alternatives →

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    Plox▲261

    The most affordable docsend alternative

    2025 · tryplox.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered bookmark manager for everything you save

    Nov 2025 · bookmarkjar.com · its alternatives →

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    MarkUp▲442

    Turn your website into a dynamic canvas ready for feedback

    2020 · markup.io · its alternatives →

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    Boost productivity with document automation & e-signatures

    2022 · paperless.io · its alternatives →

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    Collaborate around what you find online on the Web or PDFs

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Waymark▲233

    Instant, beautiful roadmaps for product presentations.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    DocSend▲198

    Rich analytics and controls on documents you send.

    2014 · docsend.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple AI assistant for documents made open source Can be used for your docs or also for shared documents. It is currently a part of Papermark, open source Docsend alternative for sharing docs quickly and getting analytics on each page. Thinking on investing more time in it, and building more advanced work with many docs. Any contributors are welcome here https://github.com/mfts/papermark

    2024 · papermark.io · its alternatives →

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    Join the paperd.ink waitlist to get early access to open-source e-paper (eink) devices.

    2021 · paperd.ink · its alternatives →

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    Here's the website: http://markup.io/ We created MarkUp at Medium to help make the QA process better for sites we're working on. Grab the MarkUp bookmarklet, go to some page in your browser, then click it to draw on the page. Publish to make a link you can share. We've tried similar tools like BounceApp, Notable, and Skitch. Everything else we found is screenshot-based or takes us out of the browser. We wanted something that felt quicker than screenshots and more integrated with the browsing experience. Instead of taking a screenshot, MarkUp snapshots the DOM in the current page, strips the…

    2010 · markup.io · its alternatives →

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    The paper-to-digital bookmark app

    2022 · papertag.app · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight blog publishing editor for Markdown writers

    2016 · wordmarkapp.com · its alternatives →

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