You have a PDF. It needs to be signed. You do not want to print it, sign on paper, scan it, and email it back, and you also do not want to create an account on a signing service you have never used before. That is fine, and it is what Signoo is built for.
Here is how to sign a PDF for free in your browser, without an account and without the file leaving your own device.
Upload the PDF
Go to signoo.app/sign. Drag the PDF into the window, or click to pick the file from your device.
When you sign for yourself, the PDF opens locally in the browser. The file is not sent to Signoo, to a server, or anywhere else. It sits in your device’s memory until you are done and you download it back.
Draw your signature
Use the mouse, your finger on a phone, or a stylus on a tablet. Draw your name in the signature pad. The signature is stored as a PNG image in the browser.
You can also type your name with the keyboard. Signoo renders it in a handwriting-style font. Both variants produce a simple electronic signature (SES) under eIDAS article 25(1).
Place the signature on the document
Drag the signature to where it should sit on the page. Adjust the size by dragging the corners. Use the page navigation at the bottom to move between pages.
If the document needs several signatures (one per page, or initials on every page) you can place the signature multiple times.
Download the PDF
Click “Download”. Signoo flattens the signature into the PDF and saves the new file locally on your device. The signed file is a regular PDF that opens in any reader and can be sent on as an email attachment.
What does it cost?
Nothing. You do not need an account, a payment card, or to hand over your email address. Drawn SES in the browser is free and has no hidden quota.
What about privacy?
When you sign for yourself, the PDF is processed locally in your browser. That means Signoo never sees the content. It is different from most other signing services, which upload the file to a server before signing.
If you instead want to send a PDF to someone else for signing, we need to store the document on our side temporarily. It is stored in the EU (Frankfurt) and deleted after signing. Higher-assurance eID signing is not available in this release. No launch date is set. More on server-backed signing in the article about accounts and what they are for.
What kind of PDFs work?
Ordinary text and contract documents from Word, Pages, Google Docs or similar all work. The file must be under 20 MB and 100 pages for the free tier. Interactive form PDFs (member agreements, consent forms) are signed as flat documents, not as filled-in field values.
What is the legal weight?
A drawn signature in the browser is a simple electronic signature (SES). It has legal effect under eIDAS article 25(1) and is suited for most everyday agreements. For documents where sector law or the counterparty requires eID-based signing, an SES is not enough. Higher-assurance eID signing is not available in this release. No launch date is set. See our article on SES, AES and QES for more.
It takes under two minutes from upload to a signed PDF back. Start here.