Papermark Reviews & Mentions

Papermark is a Berlin-based, open-source virtual data room and document sharing platform trusted by over 53,000 companies. SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA compliant.

https://www.papermark.com

80 reviews and mentions collected: 25 from Reddit, 48 from Hacker News, 0 from G2, 0 from Capterra, 7 from Product Hunt.

Reddit Discussions (25)

Reddit▲ 2r/SideProject

131 Side Projects: Analysis of monthly recurring revenues (MRR), annual recurring revenues (ARR) and timelines that I collected during my research for my own Android application.

by Wissam-SY · Mar 15, 2026

Hi everyone, I'm currently building an Android app (Putting the last touches now) and I've been doing some research to understand the revenue and time to success of similar projects, mainly SaaS and apps I've compiled a list of 131 companies with their MRR, ARR, and the time it took them to become profitable. I thought this might be helpful to others here who are also looking to define their niche or assess their progress Here's the data I've collected so far, hope this will be helpful to some...

Reddit▲ 3r/selfhosted

Papermark v0.16.0 - Granular Permissions, Watermarks, and More File Types

by mfts0 · Mar 1, 2026

[Papermark](https://www.papermark.com/) is the open-source alternative to DocSend to share documents and data rooms and receive page-by-page engagement analytics. Fully branded with custom domains. Papermark can be self-hosted. Hi ! I did not share some releases but as we continue shipping I am gonna do it in next couple of weeks, as really love your feedback on it. Summary of all the most important changes: • **File-level Granular Permissions:** Create groups, add members, and define exac...

Reddit▲ 1r/papermark

This is an official Papermark Reddit channel!

by iuliiashnai · Feb 28, 2026

You can read latest [Papermark](https://www.papermark.com) news! Feel free to post questions, comment in here and discuss the updates [https:\/\/www.papermark.com](https://preview.redd.it/7n47ohqsremg1.png?width=3004&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0a9f8851fbc7c1123051dc649d05457f54ee1eb)

Reddit▲ 2r/ExperiencedFounders

The 5 Best Virtual Data Rooms (VDR) I've Tested for 2026

by Sad-Recognition-8257 · Feb 13, 2026

I've been testing virtual data rooms for several years now, and 2026 has brought some interesting developments to the space. This is my updated compilation of VDRs I've tried and genuinely liked. No particular order here, and honestly, none of these tools are bad. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, and every company offers a different approach to the VDR solution. # Papermark **Pros:** * Open source with selfhosting option * Unlimited data rooms * Custom domain, white labeling, and ex...

Reddit▲ 4r/ExperiencedFounders

Papermark for fundraising in Europe?

by jumpDefendRoyal7530 · Jan 22, 2026

I'm wondering if other founders here have successfully raised funds in Europe and used Papermark as their virtual data room? I know they're positioned as the data room vendor for Europe with european hosting and all that jazz but I'm wondering about any experiences using it, if it was easy to set up, does the tracking work well, are there any features missing from other VDRs? Would you recommend it?

Reddit▲ 27r/ExperiencedFounders

What documents should you include in your Data Room?

by Sad-Recognition-8257 · Nov 10, 2025

This is a question I've been asked a lot by other founders who are just starting to look for investment. So here's a quick post on the key documents that should be a part of any data room. For those who don't know what a Data Room or Virtual Data Room is, it's a secure online repository used for storing, sharing, and exchanging critical business documents during fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, and other sensitive transactions. [Here's](https://www.papermark.com/blog/what-is-virtual-data-...

Reddit▲ 14r/Entrepreneur

Some tips on how to fundraise effectively?

by MildFrost764 · Nov 6, 2025

We've been running a startup for a bit over a year and finally we're looking for some pre-seed investment, we're profitable and we're not really DYING for the investment but we need it to scale up and be more profitable. In terms of due dilligence we've got all of our financials and pitch deck ready, we also got told to ude a data room instead of Google Drive which is what we were using so we are using papermark as well as hired some contractors to help us make all the financials as real as pos...

Reddit▲ 10r/DocSend

The Best Alternatives to Docsend in 2025

by LeafyDriver25 · Nov 5, 2025

DocSend has been the go to solution for virtual data rooms for a long time, but there's many more competitive and compelling alternatives in the market right now. Here's some alternatives to DocSend with different and competitive offerings that can give DocSend a run for it's money. **1. Papermark** **Pros:** * Affordable pricing. Free tier available, paid plans start at $29/month with generous limits * Open source option allows self hosting with complete data control, your documents...

Reddit▲ 17r/EntrepreneurRideAlong

We found our first angel investor! Here's how we did it

by Academic_Way_293 · Nov 3, 2025

After months of pitching and learning along the way we finally got our first angel investor to finally scale and get out there some more. It was pretty though and as a first time founder I didn't really expect it to be this hard, we got $300k total, we're in the B2B business and developing a tech tool. I'm definetly ready for some vacations after this for sure. Our angel investor actually ended up finding us through a tweet I made on X, but that doesn't meaan warm intros aren't good, in fact th...

Reddit▲ 8r/SaaS

We got 700k in funding. Is it unfair to take a vacation?

by Free_Explorer6853 · Oct 14, 2025

Well... post title. We were looking for investing for a little while and it's been a lot of hard work but I can't take out everyone on the team on vacations and I'm kind of scared some people may take it the wrong way, just need a little break and celebrate. We started looking for investors around 8 months ago, what we did was basically we used clay to get leads, hired an agency to make a pitch deck for us and we put all that along with our market research and financials on a data room where ...

Reddit▲ 18r/Entrepreneur

Sharing the tech stack I'm using to help founders raise capital

by Free_Explorer6853 · Sep 23, 2025

These are the tools I'm using to help founders and entrepreneurs raise capital, so far I've worked with 4 and we've gotten successful seed and pre-seed rounds done. This isn't meant to promote anything in specific, there's a lot of different options for each step of the way like docsend instead of papermark, apollo.io instead of skyp.ai, huginn instead of n8n but you get the idea. This is what I've found works best for me after trying different alternatives so I'd say give other options a try an...

Reddit▲ 52r/ExperiencedFounders

The 5 best Virtual Data Rooms (VDR) that I've tried in 2025

by Sad-Recognition-8257 · Sep 19, 2025

I've been testing a lot of different virtual data rooms this year and the past. So this is kind of just a compilation of what I've tried and liked, it's in no particular order, and none of these tools are bad, everything has it's own pros and cons, and each company offers a different VDR solution I'd say. **Papermark** * **Pros** * Open source and self hosting option. * Unlimited data rooms. * Custom domain, white labeling, very good granular analytics. * Very cheap for all it's fe...

Reddit▲ 14r/sales

Do you guys use VDRs?

by Sad-Recognition-8257 · Sep 16, 2025

We've been using a VDR (Papermark) to help with document sharing, mostly just legal, contracts, esignatures from our customers. We made the switch to a VDR from Google Drive maybe 6 months ago and it's been pretty efficient at doing what it does, our customers like in general and some extra features like document view tracking and so on are handy on some enterprise sales. What are you guys using for documents? VDRs or just cloud platforms? I've heard of document management systems "DMS" b...

Reddit▲ 13r/Entrepreneur

What document sharing/data room tools do you use to share documents with clients?

by PuzzleheadedMetal746 · Sep 8, 2025

I'm kind of done with Google Drive for this, even though I am a big fan of Google Drive and the whole Google suite. I want something that will let me share documents to clients and track how much time they spend on the document, how many times they open it up, when did they open it up, etc. Right now I'm looking at Papermark or Docsend, a bit leaning towards Papermark since they're almost half the price pretty much at $80 vs $150 for what I need, and they're open source which I like. But I'm...

Reddit▲ 3r/alternativeto

Why I built an open source DocSend alternative?

by mfts0 · Jul 9, 2025

When I started Papermark, the main question I get was why open source? "How will you monetize?" "Won't competitors just copy you?" "Why give away your code for free in this market?" 18 months later, serving 30k+ companies, I've learned: Open source isn't about code. It's about trust. Typically people who not very familiar with open source think: Open source = free code, easy to copy, and set up But in reality: Open source = community & trust at scale. Thats what i also try t...

Reddit▲ 3r/SaaS

I'm a founder and I wrote a honest review of DocSend alternatives

by mr_baibaibai · Jun 26, 2025

I'm Deqian, founder of Peony. If you are like me, you are also fed up with all the SEO listicles whenever you look for alternatives to anything. The problem with tech folks is that they are too focused on the tech and often forget that, at the end of the day, business is all about trust. So, I wanted to do things differently and give you an honest review of the secure file-sharing landscape. You may walk away, finding Peony not to be the best fit, and that's totally fine. My goal here is to sh...

Reddit▲ 1r/FutureTechFinds

Papermark - Tool for document qa

by EssYouJAyEn · Jun 1, 2025

**Pricing**: Free/USD **Category**: document qa **Release Date**: 2025 **About Tool:** Papermark AI is a revolutionary, open-source AI platform aimed at reshaping document sharing and collaboration. The tool offers promising features designed to enhance your interaction with various types of documents such as pitch decks, sales decks, and PDFs. Through its AI functionalities, it can provide insights on shared documents, check for grammar and errors, summarize documents, and even turn your pi...

Reddit▲ 6r/selfhosted

Papermark v0.15.0: Drag and drop documents, Sort document index, Advanced visitor analytics, Migrate to app.papermark.io

by mfts0 · Feb 26, 2025

[Papermark](https://www.papermark.com/) is the open-source alternative to DocSend to share documents and data rooms and receive page-by-page engagement analytics. Fully branded with custom domains. Papermark can be self-hosted. [GitHub Link](https://github.com/mfts/papermark). Hi ! I did not share some releases but as we continue shipping I am gonna do it in next couple of weeks, as really loved your feedback on it. **If you missed our last release** [**here it is** ](https://www.reddit.com/...

Reddit▲ 5r/selfhosted

Papermark v0.14.0: Bulk File Upload with TUS protocol, Links in PDFs, Dataroom Updates

by mfts0 · Jul 18, 2024

[Papermark](https://www.papermark.com/) is the open-source alternative to DocSend to share documents and data rooms and receive page-by-page engagement analytics. Fully branded with custom domains. Papermark can be self-hosted. [GitHub Link](https://github.com/mfts/papermark). Hello ! **If you missed our previous update, we added new file support, auto-detect document orientation and** [more](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1d9foj0/papermark_v0130_new_file_support_autodetect/)**.*...

Reddit▲ 12r/selfhosted

Papermark v0.13.0: New File Support, Auto-Detect Document Orientation, Security Updates

by mfts0 · Jun 6, 2024

[Papermark](https://www.papermark.io/) is the open-source alternative to DocSend to share documents and receive page-by-page engagement analytics. Fully branded with custom domains. Papermark can be self-hosted. [GitHub Link](https://github.com/mfts/papermark). Hello [](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/)! **If you missed our previous update, we added data rooms, feedback questions, auto-tagging downloads and** [more](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1cm6tfp/papermark_v0120_data_...

Reddit▲ 5r/selfhosted

Papermark v0.12.0: Data Rooms, Feedback Question, Autotagging Downloads, Screenshot Protection

by mfts0 · May 7, 2024

[Papermark](https://www.papermark.io/) is the open-source alternative to DocSend to share documents and receive page-by-page engagement analytics. Fully branded with custom domains. Papermark can be self-hosted. [GitHub Link](https://github.com/mfts/papermark). Hello [r/selfhosted](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/)! **If you missed our previous update, we added folders, page previews, deep-links to specific pages and** [more](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bhlliq/papermark_v...

Reddit▲ 17r/selfhosted

Papermark v0.11.0: Folders, Page Previews, Deep Link to Specific Pages, Auto-Tagging Visitors and much more

by mfts0 · Mar 18, 2024

[Papermark](https://www.papermark.io) is the open-source alternative to DocSend to share documents and receive page-by-page engagement analytics. Fully branded with custom domains. Papermark can be self-hosted. [GitHub Link](https://github.com/mfts/papermark). Hello [r/selfhosted](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/)! **If you missed our previous update, we increased the speed for viewing documents** [**by 9x**](https://x.com/mfts0/status/1764958165265961053?s=20) **and we added S3-compatible...

Reddit▲ 3r/guildball

Papermarkers for print out?

by tobiasdoe · Sep 22, 2016

Hello, as for Infinity I want to make some print out markers for GuildBall. Is there a good ressource for markers I need for every faction? Such as when you play butchers you need the following .... Or are there any markers ready? Regards

Product Hunt Reviews (7)

Product Hunt★★★★☆(4/5)

Papermark Review

by Aamir Rashid · Sep 29, 2024

Cons: Documents not resized and fit to width like DocSend

It's a good tool, although my documents are not being resized and fit to width like it happens in other tools like Docsend

Product Hunt★★★★★(5/5)

Papermark Review

by Michał Hernas · Sep 4, 2023

Congrats @mfts0 on the launch! Amazing idea with Papermark, we are for sure gonna use it!

Product Hunt★★★★★(5/5)

Papermark Review

by Atharva Bondre · Sep 4, 2023

A very useful and needed tool in the open-source productivity segment. Excited to use it and save subscription fees.

Product Hunt★★★★★(5/5)

Papermark Review

by Won Jang · Sep 4, 2023

Dope Project, and what an alternative for Docsend! Pretty amazing how you utilize open sources to create such products so fast.

Product Hunt★★★★★(5/5)

Papermark Review

by Dan Mindru · Sep 4, 2023

This is a brilliant product. Have to love that it's open source too. Will be keeping this in my pocket next time I need to share confidential documents.

Product Hunt★★★★☆(4/5)

Papermark Review

by Peer Richelsen · Sep 4, 2023

Really awesome tool. Especially running on a custom domain is a cool addition!

Product Hunt★★★★★(5/5)

Papermark Review

by Kalpesh Bhalekar · Sep 4, 2023

I've been in Sales for 7+ years. Absolutely love Papermark! Congratulations @mfts0 on launching this.

Hacker News Discussions (48)

Hacker News

Re: CloakShare – Open-source DocSend alternative with video streaming (MIT)

by GrimLabs · Mar 7, 2026

Built this because I was paying $45/user/month for DocSend to share pitch decks. That's it. Serve pages as images, count the views, charge a fortune. Papermark is the obvious open-source answer but it's AGPL -- if you want to embed a secure doc viewer in a commercial product, that's a dealbreaker. And there's no npm package for this anywhere. If you want secure document viewing in your app today, you're writing it from scratch. CloakShare is MIT, API-first, and ships an embeddable Web ...

Hacker News

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of awesome open source project websites?

by constantinum · Sep 19, 2025

1. https://cal.com/ 2. https://cap.so/ 3. https://n8n.io/ 4. https://plausible.io/ 5. https://www.papermark.com/ 6. https://www.tooljet.ai/ 7. https://tina.io/ 8. https://unstract.com/

Hacker News

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for

by skwashd · Dec 9, 2023

During a quick scan of the catalog I found a few issues. Sentry isn't open source, even after their most recent license change. The Business Source License and variants are source available, not open source. FireCMS is built on top of Firebase, rather than being an alternative to it. It's a similar story with the Jira CLI. They're open source, but they're useless without the backend to talk to. Plausible Analytics and Papermark are both listed twice. Rustdesk is also listed twice, once as Rustde...

Hacker News

Re: Show HN: Papermark – the open-source DocSend alternative with custom domains

by mfts0 · Oct 23, 2023

First about the comparison with DocSend. Papermark is 1. Open source-first: Papermark is 100% open-source and open to contributions. Host it yourself, fork it, modify it to your desire! Document infrastructure as never been so open and accessible! 2. Fully customizable: you can use custom domains to share a pitch deck or documents and custom branding. 3. Real-time analytics: we use Tinybird's Clickhouse under the hood to enable real-time analytics. We will also add more advanced analytics like h...

Hacker News

Re: Show HN: Papermark – the open-source DocSend alternative with custom domains

by mfts0 · Oct 23, 2023

There are many millions of documents being created and shared on any given day. However, the moment you share a document you have no idea if the recipient, whether a client, investor or colleague has actually viewed the document or engaged with the document in any way. You are completely left in the dark. Papermark is providing you actionable insights for your files. Just like you have Mixpanel or Datadog for your application, there is Papermark for your files.

Hacker News▲ 1

Long Paperback Books?

by Tomte · May 24, 2021

Link: https://ask.metafilter.com/354780/Very-long-paperback-books

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Two new books about the history of paper

by well_i_never · Nov 9, 2017

Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-paper-mark-kurlansky-paper-trail-alexander-monro-20160512-story.html

Hacker News▲ 1

Papermaking at home

by nahumfarchi · Jun 12, 2009

Link: http://fisheyepress.com/Papermaking.html

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