Sales, forms & workflow platforms

Looking for a PandaDoc alternative?

PandaDoc is a document platform for sales teams: build a proposal or quote from templates and a content library, send it, and collect the signature at the end.

Signed is a different shape of product, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — which is why the table starts with what PandaDoc does better, and why there is a whole section below on what Signed does not do at all.

PandaDoc vs Signed, side by side

	PandaDoc	Signed
Genuinely better at	Creating the document in the first place — templates, pricing tables, a content library, approval steps, and analytics showing what the recipient actually read.	Signed makes no documents. It signs the one you already have, in about a minute, on your phone, without a login.
Known for	PandaDoc is a document platform for sales teams: build a proposal or quote from templates and a content library, send it, and collect the signature at the end.	An iPhone app for signing the document in front of you: create a signature by drawing it, typing it in a real handwriting style or generating one with AI, then place the signature, initials, date, text and checkmarks on any PDF and export a flattened copy.
Day to day it feels like	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.	Open the PDF on your phone, tap where things go, share it back. No account to create, no recipients to invite, no email round-trip.
Where your document lives	Uploaded to the service so it can be processed, stored or routed to other signers.	Local-first: documents, signatures and initials are stored only on the iPhone. Nothing is uploaded and there is no cloud copy on any server.

Stay with PandaDoc if…

…you produce proposals and quotes for a living. Signing is the small end of what PandaDoc does for you.

We would rather you kept the tool that fits than switched and found the feature you depended on missing. Half the people searching for a PandaDoc alternative should actually stay put.

What Signed does not do

Read this before you switch. These are real gaps, not modesty — if one of them is why you use PandaDoc, Signed is not a replacement.

Multi-party routing. There is no sending a document to three people in a set order, no reminder emails, no dashboard showing who has signed. Signed signs the copy in your hand.
Audit trails and certificates of completion. Enterprise platforms record IP addresses, timestamps and identity checks into a tamper-evident certificate. Signed does not produce one.
Signer identity verification. No SMS codes, no ID checks, no national eID (BankID, itsme, eIDAS-qualified certificates). If your counterparty requires verified identity, you need a platform that provides it.
Teams, templates and integrations. No shared team plans, no CRM or Google Drive connectors, no API. It is a single-person app on a single device.
A desktop or web app. Signed is iPhone-only. Our free web signature generator makes a signature image, but the document signing happens on the phone.

What you get if you do switch

No account, ever. Nothing to create, nothing to log into, no email round-trip. Open the PDF, sign it, send it back.
The document stays on your iPhone. Signatures, initials and files are stored on the device — nothing is uploaded, and there is no cloud copy on any server. Optional Face ID lock on top.
Three ways to make the signature. Draw it with a fingertip, type your name in a real handwriting style, or let AI generate one that looks handwritten rather than like a font.
The boring fields are the fast part. Saved initials, an auto-filled date, text boxes and checkmarks — so a form that wants initials on every page stops being a chore.
A flattened export. The signature and every field become part of the page, so the PDF you send back looks the same everywhere it is opened.

More e-sign alternatives

pdfFiller alternative Sejda alternative Mac Preview alternative OneSpan Sign alternative RightSignature alternative SignWell alternative Signaturely alternative Foxit eSign alternative

See every comparison →

Or start from the document you actually have

Sign a contractor agreement Sign a freelance contract Sign a statement of work Sign a timesheet Sign an expense report Sign a direct deposit form

All 73 document types → · or make a signature first with the free signature generator.

Worth reading before you decide

Signed is a signing tool, not legal advice — whether an electronically signed document is accepted depends on the document, the counterparty and where you are. PandaDoc and other product names belong to their respective owners; this comparison reflects each product's publicly described focus and our own honest read of it. We deliberately quote no ratings, review counts, plan limits or prices for other products, because those change — check the vendor for current details.