Sign PDF Online Free — Electronic Signature in Your Browser
Browser-based document signing — draw or type your signature and embed it permanently without uploading your PDF.
Browser-based document signing — requires Day Pass (£1.99) or a subscription.
Day Pass (£1.99, no account needed) gives one signing session. Professional (£15/mo) unlocks unlimited signing.
Day Pass requires no account. Professional and Business plans include unlimited signing plus all other Pro+ tools.
Three steps. No account.
- Draw or type your signature at full resolution — embedded permanently as a flat layer
- No account required for Day Pass tier — sign a document for £1.99 with zero registration
- Entirely local processing — your document and signature never leave your device
- Output is a standard, tamper-evident PDF accepted by standard business workflows
“Your signature and your document are combined entirely within your browser — DocShift never receives, processes, or stores either during the signing operation.”
DocuSign and Adobe Sign process documents server-side, charge per-envelope at volume, and require accounts for basic functionality. DocShift's browser-based document signing requires no account for occasional use, costs £1.99 for a Day Pass, and never uploads your document to any server.
Electronic signatures are legally recognised in the UK under the Electronic Communications Act 2000 and in the EU under eIDAS. A typed or drawn signature embedded in a PDF constitutes a valid simple electronic signature in most commercial and civil contexts. For documents requiring qualified electronic signatures — certain regulated financial instruments or specific legal filings — the requirements are more stringent and typically involve identity verification beyond a browser-based tool.
DocuSign is an enterprise-grade platform built around workflow management, audit trails, multi-party signing sequences, and identity verification. DocShift's signing tool is a local, privacy-first tool for embedding a signature into a PDF — suited to solo professionals signing documents individually. The key distinctions: DocShift processes locally with no upload, requires no account for occasional use, and costs a fraction of DocuSign's per-envelope pricing at low volume.
DocShift currently supports single-signer workflows. For documents requiring multiple sequential signatures, the practical workflow is to pass the PDF between signatories, each using DocShift to add their signature in turn. Each signature is embedded as a permanent flat layer, so signatures accumulate correctly across sessions.