Sign PDF

The print-sign-scan routine is one of the more pointless rituals of modern paperwork — a document that started digital ends up on paper for a few seconds just so a signature can be added, then gets turned back into a digital file that usually looks worse than the original. Sign PDF skips the paper entirely: your signature goes directly onto the PDF, at the exact position you choose, at whatever size makes sense for the page.

There are three ways to build a signature. Draw treats your mouse, trackpad, or touchscreen as a pen — freehand, on a blank pad, in the color of your choice. Type turns your name into a handwriting-style signature instantly, with a choice of five script fonts, useful when you don't have a stylus or steady hand but still want something more personal than typed block letters. Upload takes a photo of a signature you've already signed on paper — snap it with a phone camera against plain paper — and can automatically strip the white background so it drops onto the page as a clean stamp instead of a rectangle.

However you create it, your signature is kept on a small tray so you can reuse it across multiple pages or documents without redrawing it each time — sign page one, jump to page four for an initial, come back to page one to adjust the size, all before saving. Every placement can be dragged, resized, and undone independently.

Because everything — drawing, rendering the typed font, stripping the background from an uploaded photo, and writing the final PDF — happens locally in your browser, this is a reasonable way to sign something you'd rather not route through a stranger's server: leases, contracts, consent forms, and other paperwork that has your name permanently attached to it.