Willem Hoek

Here are the best phone app for signing documents that you can use

Feb 07, 2020

M.C. Escher, Drawing Hands, 1948

The yearly subscription for the document signing software I use was up for renewal. So I decided to have a quick look at what is out there. You requirement would most probably align with one of following categories:

Personal Use

You looking to sign a few docs for personal use
Only required once every few months
Free else very low cost

Business Use

Sign documents on a regular basis
Company paying for the software
A few documents a months

Integrated Use

Need someone else to efficiently and fast sign my documents
Integrated into other applcations

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My needs falls within the Business category. Here are some of the criteria I used in my evaluation:

iPhone app
App must be stable / responsive / good UI
Ability to use same account on multiple devices
Price. Although my company is paying.
Usage: of 10-30 documents to sign per month
Ability to save a signature for re-use, or even better – more than one signature
Good conversion of Word and Excel documents to Pdf

List of all the apps I looked at below.

SignNow – by airSlate

https://www.signnow.com/
$8/20 pm billed annually/monthly - unlimited docs
(+) Free for first 5 documents
(+) Able to save and re-use more than one signature
(-) The line thickness optioins are all way to thick

SignEasy

https://signeasy.com/
$10/15 pm, billed annually/monthly
(+) Free for first 3 documents

HelloSign – a Dropbox product

https://www.hellosign.com/
Free - 3 signatures
$13 pm, billed annually - unlimited (30d trial)
(+) I did like the dropbox affiliation

E-signature – a Zoho product

https://www.zoho.com/sign/
free for 5 docs per month
10 EUR per user per month (25 docs)
15 EUR per user per month (unlimited docs)
(+) We use other Zoho products. So was keen to make this one work.
(-) Zoho Invoicing is great! This E-signature app is not! Way to buggy and not a great user interface