Alternatives
Most e-signature services are built to send a document to several people and record what happened. Signed is built to sign the document already in your inbox, on your iPhone, with nothing uploaded. Those are different jobs — every page below starts with what the other product does better.
If one of these is why you use your current service, none of the comparisons below will change that — and we would rather you knew now than after downloading.
There is also a genuinely free option worth naming first: Apple Markup is already on your iPhone, and Mac Preview is already on your Mac. For one signature a year, use those.
An account, a dashboard and an audit trail. You upload a document, add recipients, and the platform runs the signing process and records what happened.
Running a signing process between several people: signing order, reminder emails, a dashboard of who has signed, a certificate of completion and an audit trail, plus integrations into nearly every business tool.
Compare a DocuSign alternative →Everything else you can do to a PDF: real editing, OCR, redaction, form field creation, page surgery — plus sending for signature with tracking, on desktop and web as well as mobile.
Compare an Adobe Acrobat Sign alternative →Compliance and evidence: signer identity verification, granular audit records, deployment options for regulated environments, and the paper trail auditors ask for.
Compare a OneSpan Sign alternative →European compliance work: eIDAS-aligned signature levels, EU data hosting, and the qualified-signature options a European business or notary may specifically require.
Compare a Yousign alternative →Proving who signed: national eID identification, plus workflow and archiving for organisations that need signer identity established rather than assumed.
Compare a Scrive alternative →Sitting inside a document workflow a business already runs: secure file sharing, client portals, request-and-track signing, and the admin controls that come with that.
Compare a RightSignature alternative →A web app you log into to send a document out for signature, usually with templates and a plan based on how many documents you send.
Sending documents out to other people, reusing templates for paperwork you send repeatedly, embedding signing into your own product, and keeping everything alongside your Dropbox files.
Compare a Dropbox Sign alternative →Volume work: inviting many signers at once, reusable templates, team management, and a web dashboard that tracks the status of everything you have sent.
Compare a SignNow alternative →Being the easy way to get someone else to sign something: templates, reminders, signing order, and a status view — without an enterprise learning curve.
Compare a SignWell alternative →Web-based document management: sending for signature, organising signed documents in one account, in-person signing on a shared device, and API access.
Compare an eversign alternative →Signing on a computer with almost no friction, in any browser, on any operating system — which is exactly right when you are already at a desk.
Compare a DigiSigner alternative →Small-team sending: templates for the contracts you reuse, tracking who has signed, and a web experience built for non-technical users.
Compare a Signaturely alternative →Working inside a content platform: sending for signature from where your files already live, with team settings and an audit record attached to the document.
Compare a SignRequest alternative →Automation inside a business suite: signature requests triggered from CRM records or HR workflows, with everything logged against the right customer or employee.
Compare a Zoho Sign alternative →Combining PDF editing with a signing workflow: preparing forms with fields, sending them out, and tracking completion from a desktop or web app.
Compare a Foxit eSign alternative →Being cross-platform and business-ready on mobile: Android as well as iOS, sending documents to others, team accounts, and integrations with tools like Google Workspace.
Compare a SignEasy alternative →Signing is the last step of a bigger workflow — a proposal, a form submission or a deal room — so the document is generated as much as signed.
Creating the document in the first place — templates, pricing tables, a content library, approval steps, and analytics showing what the recipient actually read.
Compare a PandaDoc alternative →The selling around the signature — buyer engagement tracking, video introductions, shared deal spaces and CRM integration.
Compare a GetAccept alternative →Turning data collection into signed paperwork automatically: build the form, map the fields, and let every submission generate a document for signature.
Compare a Jotform Sign alternative →Finding and filling standard forms: a searchable form library, real editing of scanned pages, and tools for typing into documents that were never designed to be filled in digitally.
Compare a pdfFiller alternative →A page of PDF utilities where signing is one tool among compress, convert and merge. The file is usually uploaded to their servers to be processed.
Everything that is not signing: converting Word to PDF, merging, compressing and splitting files quickly in a browser on any computer.
Compare a Smallpdf alternative →Breadth of free PDF utilities in one place — merge, split, compress, rotate, convert, page numbers, watermarks — on desktop and mobile.
Compare an iLovePDF alternative →Its desktop app: proper offline PDF editing and page manipulation on a Mac or PC, which no phone app matches.
Compare a Sejda alternative →Being a full PDF editor across Apple devices: editing text and images, annotating long documents, managing pages, and syncing between Mac and iPad.
Compare a PDF Expert alternative →Already on the device, nothing to install or sign up for, and enough to get one signature onto one page.
Being free and already installed. There is nothing to download, nothing to subscribe to, and for one signature on one page it is genuinely all you need. If you sign paperwork once a year, use Markup.
Compare an Apple Markup alternative →Working on a big screen for free, with a signature captured from real ink held up to the camera — which often looks better than anything drawn with a fingertip.
Compare a Mac Preview alternative →Free to download and the first signature is free. If it turns out you needed multi-party routing after all, one of the services above is the right answer — no hard feelings.
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