Compare top document and e-signature software. Find the best tools for PDFs, contracts, and digital signing.
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Tools in Documents & E-signature
Dropbox Sign — Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) is an electronic signature platform that lets businesses send, sign, and manage legally binding document workflows online.
SignNow — airSlate SignNow is an e-signature and document workflow platform that lets businesses send, sign, and manage legally binding documents online, with custom branded workflows and broad app integrations.
Foxit PDF Editor — Foxit PDF Editor is a cross-platform PDF editing suite positioned as a lighter, more affordable alternative to Adobe Acrobat, offering text and image editing, OCR, conversion, digital signatures, and an AI Assistant for document analysis.
Nitro PDF Pro — Nitro PDF Pro is a Windows desktop PDF editor from Nitro Software offering PDF creation, editing, conversion, OCR, and e-signature tools with a one-time purchase licensing option.
Smallpdf — Smallpdf is a Switzerland-based online PDF suite offering compression, conversion, editing, e-signature, and password tools used by over a billion people.
iLovePDF — Browser-based toolkit for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, editing and signing PDF files online.
PDFescape — PDFescape is a free, browser-based PDF editor and form filler, now owned by Claranova's Avanquest division, offering both a free online tool and paid Premium/Ultimate tiers.
Sejda PDF — Sejda PDF is a browser-based and desktop PDF editor that lets users edit text and images, merge and split files, fill and sign forms, run OCR, and convert PDFs, with a limited free tier and paid plans for heavier use.
PDF Expert — PDF Expert is a PDF editing, annotation, and e-signature app made by Readdle, primarily for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, with AI-assisted document tools.
Soda PDF — Soda PDF is a PDF editing, conversion, and e-signature software suite for Windows and web, offering tools to create, edit, merge, secure, and sign PDF documents.
DocHub — DocHub is a browser-based PDF editing and e-signature platform that lets users edit, sign, and share documents directly from Gmail, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
Jotform Sign — Jotform Sign is Jotform's free e-signature tool for creating, sending and collecting legally binding signatures on documents.
Proposify — Proposify is a cloud-based proposal and document automation platform that helps sales teams design, send, track, and electronically sign business proposals, quotes, and contracts.
Formstack Documents — Formstack Documents is Formstack's no-code document-generation module that automatically merges data from forms, CRMs, and databases into templated contracts, invoices, proposals, and reports in DOCX, PDF, PPTX, or CSV format.
DocSend — DocSend is a secure document sharing and analytics platform, owned by Dropbox, that lets sales, fundraising, and deal teams share trackable links with real-time viewer engagement data.
Better Proposals — Better Proposals is UK-based online proposal software that lets sales teams and agencies design, send, e-sign, and get paid on client proposals in minutes.
Qwilr — Interactive proposal and quote software that turns sales documents into responsive web pages with embedded pricing, e-signatures, payments and buyer engagement analytics.
OpenSign — OpenSign is an open-source electronic signature platform, founded in 2023, that offers a free self-hosted version and paid cloud plans as an alternative to DocuSign.
Documenso — Documenso is an open-source e-signature platform positioned as a transparent, self-hostable alternative to DocuSign, with a hosted freemium version and a fully auditable AGPL-licensed codebase.
Docuseal — An open-source electronic signature and document-completion platform offering both a hosted cloud service and a self-hosted on-premises option.
BoldSign — BoldSign is an embeddable e-signature platform and API from Syncfusion, offering document signing, templates, and audit trails for apps and teams.
SignWell — Simple, affordable e-signature software (formerly Docsketch) for sending, signing and tracking legally binding documents.
SignRequest — Cloud-based e-signature platform for sending, signing and managing legally binding documents, acquired by Box in 2021.
Oneflow — Oneflow is a Swedish contract lifecycle management platform that turns static PDF contracts into dynamic, data-rich digital documents with e-signing, templates, and workflow automation.
Scrive — European e-signature and digital agreement platform offering electronic signing, identity verification through eID, and web forms for businesses.
Penneo — Penneo is a Danish digital signature, document workflow and KYC compliance platform used by auditors, accountants, law firms and financial institutions across the Nordics, now owned by Visma.
SignServer — Enterprise digital signature server from Keyfactor (formerly PrimeKey) for automated code signing, document signing and timestamping.
LibreSign — LibreSign is an open-source electronic signature solution, best known as a Nextcloud app, developed by the LibreCode cooperative since 2020.
Paperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a free, open-source, self-hosted document management system that scans, OCRs, tags and indexes documents into a searchable digital archive.
Papermerge — Papermerge is an open-source, self-hosted document management system for scanning and organizing digital archives, offering OCR, a REST API and multi-user permissions under the Apache-2.0 license.
Mayan EDMS — Mayan EDMS is a free, open-source, Django-based document management system offering OCR, metadata indexing, workflow automation and electronic signature verification.
Docspell — Docspell is a free, open-source, self-hosted document organizer that automatically extracts metadata, tags, and text from scanned files, emails, and other documents.
Teedy — Teedy is a lightweight, open-source document management system (formerly Sismics Docs) offering full-text search, OCR, encryption, and workflow tools, available as a free self-hosted app or a paid cloud service.
LogicalDOC — Document management system with a free open-source Community Edition and paid Business/Enterprise editions.
OpenKM — OpenKM is a Spanish document management and enterprise content management platform offering a free open-source Community Edition alongside paid Professional and Cloud editions with workflow, records management, and support.
SeedDMS — SeedDMS is a free, open-source, self-hosted document management system built in PHP that helps small and mid-sized organizations store, version, and control access to documents with configurable workflows.
Alfresco — Alfresco is an enterprise content, process, and governance management platform, originally founded in 2005 and now developed by Hyland, used to manage documents and automate workflows.
Collective Access - Providence — Providence is the free, open-source cataloging engine of CollectiveAccess, used by museums, archives, and libraries to manage and describe digital and physical collections.
Eonvelope — Eonvelope is an open-source, self-hosted email archiving application that continuously fetches mail over IMAP, POP, Exchange, and JMAP to preserve it long-term with full-text search.
Omeka S — Omeka S is a free, open-source web publishing platform that lets one installation power multiple independently themed digital collection sites sharing a common item pool, purpose-built for museums, libraries, archives and digital humanities projects.
BentoPDF — BentoPDF is a free, open-source, privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs entirely in the browser, offering around 80 tools for editing, converting, and securing PDFs.
Gotenberg — Gotenberg is a free, open-source Docker API that converts HTML, Markdown, Office files, and URLs into PDFs using headless Chromium and LibreOffice.
I, Librarian — Open-source and cloud reference management platform for organizing, searching and AI-summarizing academic PDFs and citations.
Papra — Papra is an open-source, self-hostable document archiving platform that lets individuals and small teams scan, tag, search and store files under an AGPL-3.0 license, with an optional paid cloud version hosted in Europe.
PdfDing — PdfDing is a free, open-source, self-hosted PDF manager and viewer that lets users organize, annotate, and access PDF documents across devices via a Docker-deployed web app.
SimpleDMS — SimpleDMS is an open-source, tag-based document management system built for small and mid-size businesses, offering cloud, on-premises, and white-label deployment options.
DocuSign CLM — DocuSign CLM is an enterprise contract lifecycle management product that automates contract drafting, AI-assisted negotiation, approval routing, and centralized contract storage.