The Client Review Room: A Frame.io Alternative at Full Bitrate

• Timecoded comments. Every comment is pinned to the exact frame it refers to. Opening it seeks the player straight there — no more “around 2:14”.
• Drawings on the frame. Your client draws directly on the image. The annotation is stored with the comment and visible on both sides.
• Threads, reactions, done. Threaded replies, reactions, and a done check per comment, so a round of notes actually closes.
• Searchable dialogue. With AI captions on, your client can search the dialogue and jump straight to the frame where a line is said.

• Versions on one card. Upload V2, V3… against the same card. Compare any two versions side by side or with a wipe, at full quality.
• Multiple aspect ratios per project. 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 each carry their own version stack — the social crop is reviewed as itself, not as an afterthought.
• Per-version approvals. The client approves a specific version — or requests changes on it — and the sign-off is recorded against that version, not buried in an email thread.
• Five review states. Needs Review, In Progress, Awaiting Approval, Needs Revision, Approved — colour-coded by whose move it is.
• Revision rounds. Set the rounds a project includes and what an extra one costs. The client sees the warning before they go over.

When the approvals are in, you do not switch tools to deliver. Drop the final masters in the deliverables drawer and the client downloads them from the same room the review happened in — original files, full fidelity, under the same access rules.

And AI captions ride along: transcription generates captions for any clip, you edit and style them in the dashboard, viewers toggle them with the player’s CC button, and you can export .srt or .vtt to hand to a broadcaster or another platform.

Frame.io is a serious product and the comparison should be read straight. Its published pricing is $15 (Pro) or $25 (Team) per member per month — with annual billing published as a per-year amount, $156 and $264 per member — and it includes 2 TB (Pro) or 3 TB (Team) of storage. Enterprise is a custom quote.

The differences that matter to us are elsewhere. Frame.io reviews a proxy: 4K H.264 playback maxes out around 50 Mbps, so what your client approves is a compressed impression of the master. And its security features are gated high up the ladder: DRM-based screen-capture blocking and forensic watermarking sit in Enterprise Prime only, and the session watermark is a paid Enterprise Select add-on — all quote-only tiers.

Here, review runs on the master itself — in the browser at the bitrate you exported, and in the macOS app up to 15,000 Mbps for camera originals. The review room is built into every plan rather than sold per member; plans differ by storage, from free (1 GB) up. And when a project needs capture blocking and watermarks, that is the published-price Vault tier, not a sales call — the numbers are on the pricing section and the security details on /secure.

For unreleased work, the review room connects to the vault: the master goes dark on the web and review happens in the macOS app with screen capture blocked, a session watermark on every frame, and an invisible per-person forensic watermark. The full security model — including what we do not claim — is on the security page.