A free alternative to DocuSign
For putting a signature on a PDF, you do not need an account or a charge per document.
What is different here
You draw or type a signature, place it where it belongs, and download the signed file. No envelope, no credit, no counter.
The document is never transmitted. It is opened, signed and saved by your own browser — which also means there is no copy of your contract sitting on someone else’s server afterwards.
No seat licence and no per-envelope charge — you pay for the plan, not for each signature.
Where DocuSign is still the right choice — and this matters
Read this part before deciding.
What we do is put a signature ON a document. What DocuSign does is run a signing PROCESS: it verifies who signed, records when and from where, keeps a tamper-evident audit trail, and produces a certificate that stands up when someone later denies signing.
Those are different things. If your signature might be challenged — an employment contract, a property deal, anything with real money or a regulator behind it — use a service built for it. We cannot certify who held the mouse.
Sending is part of DocuGrip too: a document can go to several people in order, whoever is next can be reminded, and each step is kept in an activity record — see Request signatures. What it still does not do is verify identity beyond the personal link sent to each email address, or issue certified signatures, so the advice above stands for anything that may be challenged.
What this is genuinely good for
Signing something you were asked to sign and sending it straight back. Filling in a form and initialling it. Signing internal paperwork where the question is “is it signed” and not “can we prove who signed it”.
That covers most of the signing most people do, and it costs nothing.
How to check any of this yourself
Do not take our word for it, and do not take theirs. These four checks take a minute each and work on any online PDF tool, including this one.
- Open the network tab in developer tools, then run the tool. If your file is being uploaded, you will see it leave. Here, for tools that run in your browser, you will see the page load its own code and nothing carrying your file.
- Turn off your network and run the tool again. If it still works, the processing was never happening on a server.
- Read the privacy page and look for how long files are kept. A service that stores your file will say so, usually with a number of hours.
- Try a file larger than the free limit. Where a limit exists, it usually exists because every file costs the service money.
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