Client Review Links: Comments and Approvals, No Account

To get client approval on an AI video in Hyperdream, choose "Share for review" on the film or file, send the link, and the client comments and approves in their browser with no account. Comments pin to a spot on a picture or a moment in a video, and each item ends as approved or sent back for changes.

Key takeaways

• One link, no account. Anyone with the link can look, comment and approve. They type a name so you know who said what.
• Pinned comments. A comment sits on a spot in a picture or at a moment in a video.
• Two decisions per item: "Approve" or "Request changes", with a note.
• Two controls on the link: download on or off, and an expiry of 7 days, 30 days or never.
• An honest limit: this is not frame-accurate professional review with version stacks. Frame.io does that, from $15 a member a month (checked 10 November 2026).

What can you share for review?

A whole film, or anything in Create or the Library: an image, a clip, a storyboard frame, a piece of music. In the Library you can select several files and share them as one review, which suits a round of character reference sheets or a set of first frames.

This matters for cost. A client who signs off the cast and the storyboard before any video is rendered saves you the renders you would have thrown away. Our three client films used 1.8 to 4.4 video renders per finished shot, and video was 73% to 91% of the credits. The full numbers are in the cost of an approved AI film.

How do you make a review link?

1. Open the film, or select the files in the Library, and choose Share for review.
2. Give the review a name the client will recognise.
3. Under For, pick the client it belongs to, or General. On a team, this files the review with that client's work.
4. Set Let them download on or off.
5. Set Link stops working: Never, after 7 days, or after 30 days.
6. Choose Create review link and copy it.

The dialog then offers "See what they see", which opens the page the way a guest gets it. Check it before you send it.

What does the client see?

The client opens the link in a browser. There is nothing to install and no sign-up. The first time they comment or decide, the page asks "What's your name?" so the team knows who said what.

On the page they can:

• Pin a comment on a picture. They click the spot that's wrong and type.
• Comment at a moment in a video. The comment is tied to that point in the clip.
• Write a general comment about the item as a whole.
• Approve the item, or Request changes and say what needs to change.

A review with several items gets a decision per item. A client can approve five frames and send back the sixth.

What happens after they comment?

You are notified of every comment and every decision. Notifications has a "Needs a look" tab, and every review link, with its comments and decisions, is listed under Projects > Reviews.

You can mark a comment as resolved once it's dealt with.

Then you make the change. In Hyperdream every result is a new version, and an edit never replaces the original, so the frame the client first saw is still there. The share dialog says that when an item gets a new version, the same link shows it and keeps the old one to compare.

Who should get a review link, and who should get a seat?

A review link is for people outside the team who only need to react: the client's marketing lead, a founder, a legal reviewer.

Someone who needs to see a client's whole folder over time is better as a Viewer on the team. Viewers watch and comment, are free and take no seat. An admin sets their access to that one client, so they see nothing else. Roles and access are explained in how Hyperdream teams work.

Where is a dedicated review tool better?

Be clear about what this is. Hyperdream's review link is comments plus an approve or request-changes decision. It is not frame-accurate professional review, and it has no version stacks.

Frame.io is the tool most production teams use for that job. From its own pages, read on 10 November 2026:

• Share links let outside reviewers comment for free, with no sign-up or login.
• Its feature table lists frame-accurate and range-based comments, annotations, version stacks and a comparison viewer.
• The Pro plan ($15 a member a month, up to 5 members) adds passphrase-protected shares, share-link expiry, and switches to disable downloads or comments. Team is $25 a member a month, up to 15 members.
• It lists integrations with Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, so comments show up on the editor's timeline.

We could not read which Frame.io plans include each item in the feature table, so check that on its pricing page.

Runway's Team plan also lists "frame-accurate commenting with @mentions" for people inside the workspace (checked 10 November 2026).

So the fair split is this:

• Use Hyperdream's review link to approve work made in Hyperdream: sheets, storyboards, shots and a cut. The client needs no login, and the decision sits beside the work and the client's budget.
• Use Frame.io when the film goes into a long finishing cycle in editing software, with many timed notes per cut, version stacks, watermarks or passphrases.

Many agencies will use both. Hyperdream exports one MP4 at up to 1080p, and that file can go into whatever review tool your editor already uses.

How does this fit an agency's process?

A simple order that keeps re-renders down:

1. Brief and script. Agree the script before anything is drawn.
2. Cast and places. Share the reference sheets for review. Approval here locks the look of every character.
3. Storyboard. Share the storyboard frames, or the pitch deck PDF. Changes at this point cost a few credits a frame.
4. Shots. Render video only for the approved board.
5. Cut. Share the film for review. Each item is approved or sent back.
6. Export. Deliver the MP4.

On a team, each of these reviews is filed under the client, next to that client's monthly credit budget. The wider checklist is in AI video platforms for agencies, and seat prices are on the pricing page.

What should you watch out for?

• Anyone with the link can open it. Treat it like any unlisted link. Set an expiry, and turn downloads off for unreleased work.
• Controls are limited to two. Download on or off, and expiry. Frame.io lists passphrases and watermarks; Hyperdream's link has neither.
• Comments are pinned to a moment, not a frame number. For frame-level notes on a locked cut, use a dedicated review tool.
• A decision is per item, by whoever has the link. If three people at the client must sign off, agree who gives the final approval.

How we checked

We checked Hyperdream's review links on 10 November 2026 against the live product and its share dialog: the link, the name prompt, pinned comments, approve and request changes, the download switch, the three expiry options and the list under Projects > Reviews. Frame.io's facts come from frame.io/pricing, its review feature page and one help article, read the same day; the plan-by-plan ticks in its feature table did not come through, so we don't say which plan includes which feature. Runway's line comes from runway.com/team-plan. There is no screenshot of a review page in this version of the post.