The DocSend alternative built for founders, sales teams and consultants who want page-by-page truth—without the per-seat tax, the 100-visits cap, or the hidden enterprise fees. Pro 39 €/mois, flat.
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Email opens lie. PDF attachments disappear into the void. You never know if they read it once, forwarded it, or ghosted on page 2 of your pricing slide.
Meanwhile every closed-won deal you've ever had had one thing in common: the prospect actually read the deck.
Recon makes that visible.
Every feature is built. Clickable. Ready to use.
Know exactly which slides got attention, which got skipped, how long they spent on each, and who came back 3 times to the pricing page.
The moment your prospect opens, you get pinged (email + Slack). Your dashboard auto-ranks the deals worth chasing right now.
No more email ping-pong. The viewer has a discreet side chat. You get the question instantly, reply from your inbox, the visitor sees your answer in real time.
Password, expiration, dynamic watermark with the viewer's email, blocked downloads. The full pack to send an audit, a contract or an investor deck without losing sleep.
Sending a proposal to 50 prospects? Paste their emails, we generate a unique tracked link per recipient. Each open is isolated and scored individually.
Not the headline-grabbing ones. Just the small details that make the product feel finished.
DocSend is great if you're enterprise. For founders, freelancers and small sales teams, it's overkill and overpriced.
| Recon | DocSend | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓ Forever | 14-day trial |
| Starting price | 39 €/mo (Pro) | $45/mo per user |
| Page-by-page tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hot lead scoring | ✓ Built-in | Add-on |
| Setup time | 60 seconds | Demo required |
| Designed for | Founders & small teams | Enterprise sales |
Real numbers, real limits, real complaints. Pulled from G2 / Capterra / Reddit reviews of DocSend (4.5, but read the dislikes).
| What you actually get | DocSend | Recon |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $15/user/mo · no free plan since March 2025 | Gratuit (1 PDF) · Pro 39 €/mois · Team 59 €/utilisateur · Business dès 199 €/mois |
| Founder solo · annuel | $540/an (Standard) · plafond visites | 468 €/an (Pro) · zéro plafond |
| Visit cap on Personal plan | 100 visits/mo · doc stops working, no warning | No visit cap, ever |
| Hidden per-user fees | +$90/user/mo on Advanced (not on pricing page) | Zero. Flat pricing. |
| Page-by-page analytics | Behind $45/user/mo paywall | Free tier · with aggregate heatmap |
| Live hot lead scoring | Computed only at session end | Live, refreshed every 5 seconds |
| Bot / email-scanner filter | No · counts protection scanners as opens | Auto-flagged · stats reflect real humans |
| Replace PDF without changing the link | Partial · poor UX | One click. Same link. Stealth update. |
| Auto follow-up after silence | No | Auto-Revival drafts after 7 days silent |
| Anonymous mode for paranoid VCs | No · forced email | Optional · domain-only alias |
| Native French UI & emails | English only | English & French—pick per user |
Sources : G2 (4.5but #1 complaint = "too expensive"), Capterra (4.6), Peony pricing review, Reddit r/startups discussions 2024-2025.
DocSend hasn't shipped anything new in 10 years. Here's what we shipped this month.
For every visitor on every doc, Claude reads the timeline (sessions, forwards, revisits, hot score) and tells you what just happened, what stage you're at, and the 3 actions to take right now. Works on pitch decks, sales proposals, contracts, real estate, consulting offers—auto-detects the deal type.
A mini-video that replays your viewer's exact scrolls and zooms on each slide. Hotjar for PDFs. Export as GIF for Twitter.
See who forwarded your deck to whom inside their firm—the unmistakable signal that an investment committee is forming.
7 days of silence after they opened? Recon drafts a follow-up worth sending—based on the slides they actually read.
One panoramic emoji-coded view across all 30 recipients. hot · skipped—fix your weak slides in 5 seconds.
Spot a typo at 11pm? Re-upload your PDF. Same link, same stats, viewers who return see the fix.
Auto-flags email-protection scanners and bots so your stats reflect real humans, not Mimecast.
Some investors refuse to type their email. Toggle anon mode and you still see their company domain—friction killed.
Paste any DocSend public link. We tell you which slides drop off and what to fix—no signup required.
Built solo, shipped weekly. Suggest the next one—contact@tryrecon.app.
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