Secure PDF sharing
Share PDFs securely, on your terms
Password-protect a document, gate it behind an email, block right-click and printing, blur it against screenshots, and get a receipt when it lands - all on one link you stay in control of.
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Password protection
Put the document under seal. Readers enter the password once; verification happens server-side and the password never appears in any URL. Available from the Basic plan.
The email gate
Require readers to sign the register before the document opens - enforced on the server, so a made-up address does not pass, and every session is attributed by name. A Pro feature.
Right-click, print & copy blocking
One toggle disables right-click saving, printing, and text copying in the viewer, so a confidential proposal is read on the page - not quietly copied off it. From Basic.
Read receipts
Readers can mark a document as received, and the confirmation lands in your readership report next to their session - proof of delivery, attached to proof of reading. From Basic.
What makes a shared PDF secure?
An email attachment has no security at all: the moment you press send, the file can be opened by anyone, forwarded anywhere, and kept forever - and you will never know. Sharing the same document as a controlled link changes who holds the keys. The file stays on the server, encrypted at rest, and every protection is applied at the moment of reading: you decide who gets in (a password, an email gate), what they can do there (download, print, copy), and how long the link stays live.
Because the protections live on the link rather than inside the file, you can change your mind after sending. Tighten a document that travelled further than you expected, add a password to a link that is already out in the world, or expire it early - without recalling anything.
The protection toolkit
- Password protection (Basic). Readers enter a password before the document opens. Verified server-side, never carried in a URL.
- Email gate (Pro). The document refuses to open until the reader signs in with a working email address - so your readership report shows names, not just numbers.
- Right-click, print & copy blocking (Basic). Disable the context menu, printing, and text selection in the viewer with one per-document toggle. Pairs with download control, which hides the download button entirely.
- Screenshot deterrence (Pro). The pages blur the moment the viewer window loses focus or a capture shortcut is pressed. It deters casual screenshots - no tool can make a screen truly unrecordable, and we will not pretend otherwise.
- Read receipts (Basic). Readers mark the document as received, and the confirmation is recorded with their reading session - delivery and readership on one report.
- Watermarking (coming soon). Per-reader watermarks stamped across every page, so a leaked copy points back to its source. In development for an upcoming release.
Honest security: deterrence, not DRM
A reader's screen has to display the pages for them to be read, which means no viewer - ours included - can make a document impossible to capture. What the protections do is raise the cost of casual copying: the file cannot be saved with a right click, printed to PDF, or copy-pasted, and on Pro the pages blur whenever the window loses focus. A determined attacker can always photograph a screen; honest readers are kept honest, and your readership report tells you exactly who was on the page.
The rest of the security is the quiet kind: files encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM in a tamper-evident format, per-account encryption keys, expiry you control - from an hour to never on Pro - and no reader IP address ever stored. Protection on the surface, encryption underneath.
Secure PDF sharing questions.
How do I share a PDF securely?
Upload it to FileDroppr and share the link instead of attaching the file. Then set your protections per document: a password, an email gate, right-click and print blocking, screenshot deterrence, download control, and an expiry date. The file is stored encrypted, and you can tighten or revoke access at any time - even after the link has been sent.
Can I stop people from downloading or printing my PDF?
Yes. Download control hides the download button and refuses direct download requests, and viewer protection additionally blocks right-click saving, printing, and text copying. Both are per-document toggles, and viewing in the browser keeps working normally.
Can FileDroppr prevent screenshots of my PDF?
No tool can truly prevent screenshots - a screen that displays a page can always be photographed. What FileDroppr offers is screenshot deterrence, a Pro feature: the pages blur the moment the viewer window loses focus, which stops casual capture without pretending to be DRM.
How do read receipts work?
With read receipts enabled, readers can mark the document as received right in the viewer. The confirmation is recorded alongside their reading session in your readership report, so you get proof of delivery next to proof of reading. Available from the Basic plan.
Is the file itself stored securely?
Yes. Files are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM in a tamper-evident chunked format, each account has its own encryption keys, and expired files are swept from disk within a minute. Reader IP addresses are never stored.
Which plans include the security features?
Password protection, right-click/print/copy blocking, and read receipts start on the Basic plan ($9/month). The email gate and screenshot deterrence are Pro ($29/month). Every plan stores files encrypted and lets you expire links on your schedule. Per-reader watermarking is coming soon.
Send it sealed.
Upload a PDF, set the rules - password, gate, blocking, expiry - and share one link you stay in control of, with a readership report to prove it landed.
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