The short answer
No. You do not need an account to sign a PDF in Signoo. You can upload the document, draw your signature, place it, and download the signed result without giving us your email address or anything else about you. That is intentional.
Why we built it this way
Most signing services require an account before you are allowed to do anything. It is not because an account is needed to sign a document. It is because the service wants your email address. That is a fine business model, but it is not ours.
We prioritise the user experience. If you have a PDF that needs signing now, you should be able to do it now. Not fill in a sign-up form, confirm your email, set up a password, and then come back to the task you actually had. Less friction is better.
We also prioritise privacy. When you sign for yourself, the PDF opens locally in your browser. We do not see it. If we do not need an account to deliver the service, we do not need to know who you are, and so we should not ask.
When an account is actually useful
There are some situations where an account makes the task easier or safer. We have chosen to make accounts optional, not mandatory, and to be honest about what you actually get from registering:
If you send a PDF to someone else for signing
Drawn self-signing happens locally and needs no server. If you send a PDF to a counterparty for signing, someone has to store the document temporarily. We store it in the EU (Frankfurt), send a link to the recipient, and show you when they have signed. You can send without an account: you give us your email address when you send, and we use it for status notifications. With an account, the documents you have sent and received are collected on your account page rather than only in your inbox, and you keep an overview across devices.
If you want an audit trail
The audit trail shows when the document was uploaded, sent, opened, signed and downloaded. Events have timestamps and limited technical metadata where available. That is useful if the signature is later disputed. The trail sits on your account page. You can download an audit-trail PDF.
If you want to sign several documents in a row
Account-saved signature drawings are not available in this release. If the option is enabled later, the saved drawing will be a drawing only, not a signature until you place it on a document. Your email address is used for receipts. No launch date is set.
If you want to share access with colleagues
Team sharing is not available in this release. No launch date is set. Today, each person signs from their own signing link.
If you need eID-based AES signing
eID-based AES signing is not available in this release. No launch date is set. AES via national eID is an identified service, and a provider needs to link the eID result to a known user. This differs from drawn SES, which does not require identification.
What does not change when you create an account
An account is not an upgrade to a different version of the service. It is not a paywall that unlocks features you cannot use without it. Drawn SES in the browser is free and works the same with or without an account. There is no paid upgrade in this release.
What does change when you create an account
When you create an account we send a magic link to your email. There are no passwords. We store the email address, a hash of the token, and documents you have sent or received for signing. If account-saved signature drawings are enabled later and you choose to keep one, saved drawings include the PNG image, canvas dimensions, timestamps, and minimal audit hashes for create, update, and delete events. We set no third-party analytics cookies, and aggregated usage statistics are collected without cookies or a client-side identifier (see the privacy policy for details).
If you later change your mind and want to delete the account, you do it in one click. Account data is removed within 30 days of closure. Pseudonymous closure records may be kept longer where statutory obligations require it. Exact retention durations per data category are stated in the privacy policy.
To sum up
An account is not a prerequisite for signing. It opens account-backed options such as sending to others and audit trails. Saved signature drawings, eID-based AES signing, and team sharing are not available in this release. No launch date is set. For everything else, going without an account is fine, and we will not nag.
Sign a PDF now, or create an account if you want any of the extras.