Send a review link your client can open with zero sign-up

Your client clicks the link and reviews: no account, no app, no install. And the three doors you can close when a cut needs them.

The fastest way to lose a note is to make someone create an account before they can leave it. A HoldFast review link asks nothing of your client: they click, the video plays, they type where they mean it, and they press approve when it is right. Everything they need is on the page they landed on.

What zero sign-up actually means

• No account. Nothing to create, no password to choose, no verification email to go find.
• No app. The link opens in whatever browser they already have, on a laptop, a phone, or a tablet on a train.
• No install. Nothing to download, and nothing for their IT department to approve first.

The only thing they ever type about themselves is a name and an email address, once, the first time they comment or approve, so their notes carry a name instead of arriving anonymous. There is no password behind it and no account is created. Their browser remembers it, so they never type it twice.

What they can do on that page

Play and scrub the cut. Pause and type a note that pins itself to the exact frame. Draw on the picture when a circle beats a sentence. Reply to someone else's note. Press Approve when the cut is right, which puts a name on a decision instead of leaving "looks good" buried three replies deep in a mail thread. If you published more than one cut, move between them.

None of that is a limited guest mode. It is the review experience. The step-by-step for building and sending one is How to send a video for review, and the walkthrough written directly to your client is Leave your first comment.

The doors you can close

Open by default does not mean open by fate. Three controls sit on every link, each one a setting you can flip before or after you send it, at the same address:

1. Password. One password guards everything behind the link: the page, the video, the comments, the downloads. It is not a splash screen anyone can click past. See Password-protect a review link.
2. Expiry. Give the link a shelf life of a day, a week, a month, or an exact date and time. When it passes, the whole link goes dark together, and the visitor gets a clean page offering to email you for a fresh one. See Set a review link to expire.
3. Require email to view. Each visitor enters an address before the page opens, so you know who came by. It identifies rather than excludes, and it still creates no account for them.

Turn on all three and the link is locked, dated, and attributed. Turn on none and it is an address that works. The friction-free version is the default because that is what gets notes back the same afternoon.

Why this is worth choosing on purpose

Every extra step between your client and your cut is a place the round can stall. A signup screen is the most expensive one of all, because it arrives before they have seen a single frame of what you made. Removing it is less a feature than a decision about who the tool is for.