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Sign any PDF in your browser in about thirty seconds. Draw your signature with a mouse, trackpad or finger, type your name in a handwriting-style font, or photograph a signature you have written on paper — the tool separates the ink from the paper automatically, so shadows and off-white backgrounds do not follow it onto the document. Place the signature anywhere on any page, resize it, add a date or printed name beside it, and download. No sign-up, no login, no watermark, and no limit on how many documents you sign.
To sign a PDF free, open it in a browser signing tool, create your signature, and place it on the page. On ihatepdf, upload the PDF and the signature pad opens straight away — draw with a mouse or finger, type your name in a handwriting font, or upload a photo of your handwritten signature and the paper background is removed automatically so only the ink is placed on the page. Position it, resize it, and download. No account, no login, no watermark, and the document is never uploaded to a server.
Drawing is the fastest and works well on a touchscreen where you can sign with a finger or stylus; on a laptop trackpad it tends to look shaky, so consider one of the alternatives. Typing your name and choosing a handwriting-style font is the tidiest option and is perfectly acceptable for internal forms and routine business documents, though it clearly is not a reproduction of your real hand. Photographing a signature you have written on paper gives the most authentic result and is the right choice for anything a counterparty will scrutinise — sign in dark ink on plain white paper, photograph it in even light, and the tool will lift the ink off the background for you.
Every mainstream e-signature service asks you to register before you can download a signed document. The reason is architectural: they upload your file to their servers, apply the signature there, and store the result — which requires an identity to attach it to, and creates an ongoing storage cost they recover through subscriptions and document limits. Signing here happens in your own browser. The PDF is parsed, the signature image is composited onto the page, and the file is written back out, all on your machine. There is no upload, so there is no storage, so there is no reason to ask who you are or to cap how many documents you sign.
It is worth being clear about the boundary. This applies a visible electronic signature to a PDF. It does not provide a certificate-based digital signature backed by a PKI identity, it does not create a tamper-evident audit trail, and it does not route a document between multiple signers with reminders and completion tracking. Those features are the substance of paid platforms like DocuSign and Adobe Sign, and they genuinely matter for regulated, high-value or multi-party agreements. For the very large number of everyday documents that simply need your signature on them — a rental form, an offer acceptance, a supplier agreement, a school letter, an invoice approval — a visible electronic signature is what is actually being asked for, and this does it in half a minute with no account.
The common situation is that a PDF arrives by email, needs your signature, and needs to go straight back. Download the attachment, open it here, sign it, and download the signed copy — the whole loop takes under a minute and never involves a third party holding the contract. If the document is a scan rather than a digital PDF, the signature still places correctly because it is composited onto the page image. If you also need to fill in fields such as a name, address or date, use the text box tool alongside the signature. And if the finished file is too large to email back, run it through the compression tool first.
Open ihatepdf.cv/sign-pdf, upload the document, create your signature, place it, and download. There is no sign-up, no login, no email address and no trial. Most signing services require an account precisely because they store your documents on a server; here the document stays on your own device, so there is nothing to attach an account to.
Yes, and it is the option that looks most natural. Sign a piece of white paper, photograph it with your phone, and upload the photo. The tool separates the ink from the paper automatically — uneven phone-camera lighting, shadows and slightly grey paper are removed, so a clean transparent signature is placed on the document rather than a grey rectangle.
In most jurisdictions a typed, drawn or scanned signature applied with clear intent to sign is valid for everyday business documents — this is the basis of the US ESIGN Act, eIDAS in the EU, and comparable legislation elsewhere. Certain categories such as wills, some property transfers and some court filings have stricter requirements, and some counterparties demand a certificate-based digital signature that cryptographically binds identity to the document. This tool produces a standard electronic signature, not a certificate-based one. For high-value or regulated agreements, check what your counterparty requires.
As many as you like. There is no daily limit, no monthly quota and no document counter — the constraints that free tiers of signing services impose exist because each signature costs them server time, and that cost does not exist here.
No. The document is opened, signed and saved entirely inside your browser tab. This matters more for signing than for almost any other PDF task, because the documents people sign are contracts, offer letters, tenancy agreements, NDAs and financial forms. Nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored, and there is no account holding a copy afterwards.
Yes. Alongside the signature you can place text boxes anywhere on the page for a date, a printed name, initials, a job title or a company name, in any font and size.
This tool signs a document on your own device rather than routing it between parties. To collect a countersignature, download your signed copy and send it on — the other party can open the same tool and add theirs. There is no email-routing or audit-trail workflow, which is the trade-off for requiring no account from anyone.
Yes, and drawing a signature with a finger on a touchscreen usually produces a better result than a mouse. It works in any modern mobile browser on Android and iPhone with nothing to install.
No. ihatepdf never adds a watermark to any output file. Many free signing tools stamp their logo onto your signed contract, which looks unprofessional on a document you are sending to a client or landlord.
Yes, until you download. The signature is a movable object you can drag, resize or delete freely. Once you download, it is embedded permanently in the PDF.
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