Sign PDF

Open the PDF on this page and choose how to make it: draw it with your mouse or finger, type your name and pick a handwriting style, or upload a photo of your signature on paper. Drag it into place, resize it, then save and download the signed PDF.

For most everyday agreements, yes. All four accept electronic signatures, with exceptions such as wills and some property and court documents. What counts is that the signer meant to sign and that you can show who signed what. A signature picture shows the first but not the second, so for a contract that might be disputed use Request Signatures or a certificate signature. This is not legal advice.

Yes. Signing a PDF yourself is free and needs no account, and the signed file has no watermark. The free plan limits how many files you can save in a short time.

Open your PDF and create your signature: draw it, type your name in a handwriting style, or upload a photo of it. Place it on the page and drag it where it belongs, add your initials, name, the date or a tick if the form needs them, and download the signed PDF.

No. Draw your signature with a mouse or finger, type your name and pick a handwriting style, or upload a photo of your signature on paper. It appears on the page, and you drag it to where it belongs. No account and no certificate are needed.

Yes. Upload the photo and the white paper around the ink is removed automatically, so only the signature itself is placed on the page, and it looks like ink rather than a pasted rectangle. This happens in your browser.

Yes. Initials have their own card: draw, type or upload them, and they are placed smaller than a full signature. Name and Date add your typed name and a date as text. The date is today unless you pick another day, and you can choose how it is written, for example September 22, 2026 or 2026-09-22.

Yes. Text adds any other line you need, such as a job title or a reference number. Check and Cross place a tick or a cross that you can drag onto a box on the form.

Place them once, click them, and press "Copy to all pages" (the button shows how many pages your document has). They are added in the same spot on every page. Pressing it a second time does not add a second copy.

Click it. Drag it to move it, and drag a corner handle to make it larger or smaller. "Remove" takes it off again. Everything stays exactly where you put it when the PDF is saved.

Yes. Pick blue or black under Ink colour before you draw, type or place a name, date or mark. An uploaded photo of your signature keeps its own colour.

As real text, so they stay sharp and can be searched and copied from the saved PDF. Text in a script that the standard PDF font cannot show, such as Arabic, Bengali or Chinese, is saved as an image instead so that it still looks right.

Yes. Word (.docx, .doc), OpenDocument text (.odt) and JPG, PNG or WebP images are turned into a PDF first and then open for signing. What you download is a signed PDF.

Yes. The signing tools sit in a panel at the bottom of the screen that you can fold away. Draw with your finger, then drag the signature into place with your finger too.

For many everyday documents, such as forms, approvals and agreements between people who know each other, it is what people expect. But it can't prove later that nobody changed the document, because it is a picture on the page. For contracts that might be disputed, or official filings that require it, use Digital Signature with a certificate.

Because Sign PDF places a visible signature, which is an image. A signature checker looks for a digital signature made with a certificate. Both are real signatures, but only the digital kind can be checked. Our article "What is a digital signature in a PDF" explains the difference.

Sign PDF puts your signature on the page for people to see, with no certificate needed. Digital Signature uses a certificate (a digital ID file) to lock the document, so any later change shows up and the signer can be identified. Use Sign PDF for everyday signing, and Digital Signature when you must be able to prove the document hasn't changed.

Use Request Signatures. You place the fields each person has to fill in, and each of them gets a private link by email to sign in their browser. You need a free account to send the request; the people signing do not. Sign PDF is for adding your own signature.

Not on our side. While you work, your signature is kept in this browser with your other unsaved edits, so closing the tab by mistake does not lose it, and that copy is removed when you download the signed file or discard your edits. When you save, it is written into your PDF and the working copy is deleted as soon as the file is built.

Yes. Every tool works without paying and without an account. Files can be up to 200 pages and 50 MB, and a run that fails costs you nothing. Pro removes the limits.

No. All tools work without signing in. An account raises your allowance and lets you see what you have processed.

Your file stays on our server only for a short time while it is processed, then it is deleted. It is sent over an encrypted connection. We keep a record that the tool was used, but not the file name or what is in the file.