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Dolly links
One shortcut for a short link with comments, reactions and insights.
Get link
In the editor, press ⇧⌘L, or open Export and click Get link. Or use Get link on a recording in Dolly Home. Dolly makes a 1080p web copy of that video and starts uploading it; the short link (on link.getdolly.app) is on your clipboard right away. Anyone who opens it before the upload is done sees Processing… with an estimate, and the video plays as soon as it's ready. If your connection drops, Dolly waits and carries on. Press ⇧⌘L again to cancel.
The free plan has up to 10 active Dolly links; a link nobody has watched for 90 days is archived, and you can restore it within 30 days. Watch pages of free links show a small Make your own video — free button. Pro has unlimited links with insights, password and expiry, and your own button and branding. A link takes a video of up to 500 MB.
Stop and get a link
Set Settings › After recording to Get link, or choose Stop and Get Link from the recording pill. Then ⇧⌘2 stops the recording and the link is on your clipboard in under a second, without opening the editor. A small card shows the upload; the link stays on your clipboard.
The watch page
The page is for your viewers, and they need no account. They see the video with its title, and can leave a comment tied to a moment (with just a name), reply, and react with one of six emoji. Comments show who wrote them, the moment as a link that plays from there, and a mark on the scrubber. If you made a transcript, the page gets captions; lines like 0:00 Intro in the description become chapters. A Share menu gives the link, a link at the current moment, and an embed code. The page is dark by default, with a light mode.
Link options
Before you click Get link, open Export › Link options to set how the link starts: a title and description (Dolly suggests them from what you said), an expiry (never, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days), a password (at least 4 characters), a button with your own label and URL, and whether downloads and comments are on. Password, expiry and your own button are part of Pro.
Your links in Dolly
Shared links in Dolly Home is a grid of everything you shared, with views, comments and a badge for new ones. Click a video for its own page, with Insights, Comments and Settings. Insights show views, unique viewers, the average share watched, how many watched to the end, and a drop-off curve with the reactions and comments placed where they happened. In Comments you reply as the creator. In Settings you change the password, expiry, downloads, comments, description, button and poster frame, saved right away. Visitors are counted by a salted hash, never by their IP address, and no cookies are used for it. Insights are part of Pro.
Video replies
Under the comment box, viewers can choose Reply with a video: they record their screen, with an optional round camera bubble, or just their camera on a phone, with their microphone. They watch it back, may add a note, and only then post it. A line in the recorder tells them it is uploaded and that you, and everyone with the link, will see it.
The reply plays in the thread with its poster and length, and in Dolly under Comments; Dolly's notification counts video replies separately. Replies can be up to 5 minutes. Don't want them? Switch off Video replies in the link's Settings (it's on by default and needs comments on). Deleting a reply deletes its files. We tested recording replies in Chrome; other browsers may record differently or not offer screen sharing.
Update or delete
Get link again from the same project, or choose Update Video… on the link's page, and Dolly swaps in the new video under the same URL, keeping its comments, reactions and views. Switch off Update the existing link in Link options to make a new one instead. Delete a link from Shared links and the video is removed.
What gets uploaded
Only what you share: the 1080p web copy of that one video, its poster frame, captions if you made a transcript, and the settings you gave the link. Your project and raw recordings stay on your Mac. Watch pages ask search engines not to index them, and a link's password is stored only as a salted hash.