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Proposify counts views.
Apdf streams every move.

Their tracking ends at a “viewed” ping. Apdf streams every open, read and stall into your stack, so you follow up while interest is still hot.

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Free plan, no card No per-send fees API on every plan
After the send Live
document:loaded Acme · CFO
page:read pricing · 47s
annotation:create "price locked?"
form:submit contact
Streamed to your stack
API
Webhook
MCP
Sound familiar?

Why teams outgrow Proposify.

Per-seat prices, metered sends, analytics locked in their dashboard. You pay to send — and still can't act on what readers do.

Sends on a meter

Every tier caps monthly sends — 10 on Basic — then bills up to $0.75 per extra document. A seat tax, with postage on top.

The analytics can't leave

Section tracking stays on their dashboard. The API has zero analytics endpoints; webhooks send one coarse “viewed” ping.

The API is Business-only

API access starts on the Business plan — custom pricing from about $3,900/year. And even then it can't read engagement data.

An editor you fight

Reviewers cite broken formatting, lost work and no version history — more time spent formatting than selling.

What you get instead.

Keep your proposal editor if you love it. Apdf owns what happens after the send — tracking, per-recipient links, real-time signals — in your stack, on every plan.

event: "page:read"
recipient: "Acme · CFO"
CRM · Warehouse · App
Own the signal

Proposify's webhooks send one “viewed” ping. Apdf streams behavior: every read, click and annotation as a typed event, self-serve, into any system you run.

<html> PDF
merge OCR watermark secure
Programmable PDFs

Generate from your own HTML — no proposal editor to fight, no lost work. Merge, watermark, OCR and secure through one API — on every plan.

agent MCP Apdf
→ apdf.get-document-session
drafts the follow-up
Agents that read the room

Proposify has no MCP server — its AI drafts proposal copy. Apdf hands agents the read — sessions, dwell time, annotations — so follow-up lands while interest is hot.

Side by side

Apdf vs. Proposify

One builds the proposal. The other tells you what happens after you hit send.

Capability
Apdf
Engagement layer
Proposify
Proposal editor
Page-by-page read analytics
Section-level, in-app
Secure per-recipient links
Real-time events to your stack
Dashboard only
Engagement webhooks
One "viewed" event
Analytics over the API
No analytics endpoints
Full REST event API
API access on every plan
Business plan only
PDF generation & operations API
HTML→PDF, merge, OCR…
Template docs only
When→then automations on reader signals
Lifecycle notifications
MCP server for AI agents
Custom branding
Pro plans
EU data residency, GDPR-native
US-hosted only
Free plan
14-day trial
No per-send overage fees
Hard caps
Up to $0.75 per send
Unlimited team members
Per-seat pricing
Designed proposals, eSign & payments
Included Limited / gated Not available

Need designed proposals with eSignature and payment at signing? That’s Proposify’s home turf — not ours. Apdf is for teams who need reader engagement inside their product, CRM and agents.

The math

Pay for what you track,
not seats and postage.

Proposify bills per seat and meters every send. With Apdf, it's one plan — whole team included, no overage fees.

Proposify
$19–$49+ / user / mo

Per seat — plus per-send overages.

  • Every tier meters sends — up to $0.75 each
  • Analytics need the Team plan — $41/user/mo
  • API is Business-only — from $3,900/year
  • No free plan — 14-day trial, then pay
Apdf No per-seat tax
From $0 / workspace

Scales with what you track — not headcount.

  • Unlimited team members on every plan
  • Tracking, event API & PDF operations included
  • Free plan, plus a 14-day Pro trial — no card
  • Hard caps, never a surprise charge
See Apdf pricing
Low switching cost

Switch in an afternoon.

Nothing to re-learn and no send caps to budget around. If you can share a proposal link, you already know how Apdf works.

1

Upload or generate

Drop in your existing PDFs, or generate fresh ones from HTML through the API. No proposal templates to rebuild, no import wizard.

2

Share a recipient link

Spin up a secure, per-recipient tracking link with your branding. Send it exactly like you sent Proposify links.

3

Watch the signal flow

Reads, returns and clicks stream straight into your dashboard, API, webhooks or agent — live, from the first open.

Questions

Switching, answered.

It replaces the part that matters after you hit send: sharing documents and knowing what readers do with them, in real time. What Proposify has that we don't is the designed-proposal editor, built-in eSignature and payment at signing — if building polished proposals is your job, keep it for that. Apdf is for teams who want the reader signal in their own product, CRM and agents instead of on someone else's dashboard.

Very likely. Proposify bills per seat ($19–$49+ per user per month), meters your sends on every tier with overage fees up to $0.75 per document, gates analytics to the Team plan and the API to Business — where pricing starts at $3,900 per year. Apdf prices on usage with unlimited members, has a free plan, and never charges overage fees — hard caps mean the bill can't surprise you.

Proposify tracks opens and section-level time inside its dashboard, and what leaves the platform is one "viewed" webhook — its API has no analytics endpoints at all. Apdf streams every open, page read, click, annotation and form fill as a typed event — live, per recipient, over REST, webhooks and MCP.

Theirs creates and sends documents from templates, and it's only available on the Business plan. It cannot read engagement data. Apdf's API covers both sides on every plan: the full PDF operations API — HTML→PDF, merge, split, compress, OCR, watermark — and the engagement side: sessions, events, webhooks, plus an MCP server so agents in Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT can read the room and act.

There is nothing to migrate, really. Upload or generate your documents, create a tracking link, and start sharing. Because Apdf has no lock-in and exports on demand, you are never trapped — by us or anyone else.

Yes. Apdf has a free Hobby plan with unlimited workspace members, plus a 14-day Pro trial with no card required. Proposify has no free plan — a 14-day trial, then per-seat pricing with metered sends from $19 per user per month.

Stop counting sends.
Start streaming reads.

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