How to send dailies to a client without Frame.io

The simplest way to send dailies to a client is a private review link they open in a browser, with no account and no install. They watch, leave frame-accurate comments, and approve or ask for changes. You get the notes back pinned to the exact frame. No seat to buy for them, no service for them to learn.

Why "just send them a link" is harder than it sounds

Every option has a catch. Email the files and they are too big. Drop them in a cloud folder and the client scrubs a raw export with no way to comment. Use a review platform and the client has to make an account, which is the exact moment a busy brand contact goes quiet for three days.

The job of a dailies link is to remove every reason for the client to stall. The fewer steps between "here is the link" and "here are my notes," the faster you are back in the edit.

What a clean dailies hand-off looks like

1. Upload once. Pull the card, drag the selects in. It uploads in the background with auto-resume, so a dropped wifi connection does not cost you the whole transfer.
2. Share a link. One URL. The client clicks it and the cuts play in the browser. No sign-up wall.
3. Get notes on the frame. Comments are timecoded and pinned to the moment. "Tighten here," "wrong take," "love this" — attached to 0:42, not buried in an email thread.
4. See approvals. Per-asset approve or request-changes, so you know exactly which selects are locked and which still need a look.

The part that saves you an hour

If you cut in DaVinci Resolve, the comments come back as timeline markers in your project. You are not transcribing notes off a screen onto your timeline by hand. You open the project and the feedback is already sitting on the frames it refers to.

That is the whole reason chimping.io exists: the review link, the delivery, and the round-trips to color and sound all live in one place, instead of three subscriptions that each do one slice of the job. For the fuller comparison, the chimping.io vs Frame.io page goes through it feature by feature.

Send the link. Let the client do the one thing you actually need from them, which is watch and react. Everything else should get out of the way.