Add Your Signature to Any PDF: Free and Instant

Adding a signature to a PDF used to mean a multi-step detour: print the document, sign it with a pen, scan it back in, and hope the scan came out straight. That workflow still happens more than you’d think, and it’s completely unnecessary. With Signegy, you add your signature directly to the PDF in your browser. No printing, no scanning, no software to install, and no account to create.

Three Ways to Add Your Signature

Signegy gives you three methods for creating a signature, and you can switch between them freely before committing one to the document.

Drawing is the closest thing to signing on paper. You draw freehand using your mouse, trackpad, or finger on a touchscreen. On a tablet with a stylus, the result can look almost identical to a pen signature. On a laptop, signing a bit more slowly than you would on paper tends to produce the cleanest lines. If your first attempt looks off, clearing the canvas and trying again takes a couple of seconds. For more on getting a good result, the guide to drawing a signature freehand covers device-specific tips.

Typing is the fastest method. Enter your name, choose from a selection of handwriting-style fonts, and watch the preview update as you type. You can see exactly what it’ll look like on the document before placing it. This is also the most consistent option, which is useful when you’re signing several pages and you want everything to match, or when you just want something clean and legible rather than handwritten. There’s more on font selection and when typed signatures make sense at type your signature instead.

Uploading works if you’ve already got your signature as an image. Maybe you signed a white sheet of paper and photographed it, or you have a PNG from a previous tool. You can upload it directly, and Signegy places the image on the PDF as an overlay. This gives you perfect consistency across every document because you’re reusing the exact same signature each time.

Placing Your Signature Precisely

Once your signature is created, you need to get it in the right spot on the page. Signegy handles positioning with straightforward drag-and-drop.

Click to place. After creating your signature, click on the PDF where you want it to appear, and it drops onto the page at that location.

Drag to reposition. If it didn’t land exactly where you wanted (maybe you’re a few millimeters off the signature line), grab it and move it. You’re not committed to the first spot you clicked.

Resize to fit. Signature lines come in different sizes, and your signature should match. Use the resize handles to scale it up or down until it looks proportional to the document.

Navigate between pages. A lot of documents need signatures on more than one page (initials on early pages, a full signature on the last). Use the page navigation to move through the document and add signatures wherever they’re needed. You can even use a different signature on each page if the document calls for it.

Supported PDF Types

Signegy works with any standard PDF file. That includes:

• Contracts and agreements: freelance contracts, service agreements, purchase orders, NDAs
• Government and legal forms: applications, declarations, court filings
• School and medical forms: permission slips, consent forms, emergency contacts
• Financial documents: invoices, receipts, tax forms, bank paperwork
• Letters and correspondence: offer letters, authorization letters, formal notices
• Multi-page documents: navigate to the specific page with the signature line and place your signature there

If your PDF viewer can open it, Signegy can add a signature to it. The tool works with text-based PDFs, scanned documents, and hybrid PDFs that contain both. Your signature is placed as a visual layer on top of the existing page content.

What Happens After You Add Your Signature

When you click download, Signegy produces a standard PDF file with your signature permanently embedded into the document. A few things worth knowing about the output.

The signature is part of the PDF. It isn’t a floating annotation that might disappear in certain viewers or when printed. It’s rendered into the page content itself, so it appears consistently whether the recipient opens the file in Adobe Acrobat, Preview, Chrome’s built-in viewer, or anything else.

File size stays similar. Adding a signature doesn’t bloat your document. The signed PDF will typically be very close in size to the original, since a signature adds minimal data compared to the rest of the page content.

The signed file downloads to your device. It goes straight to your Downloads folder (or wherever your browser saves files). Signegy doesn’t keep a copy. The processing happens entirely in your browser, so there’s no server-side storage to worry about. For details on how the client-side architecture works, see private PDF signing.

You can send it anywhere. Email the signed PDF back to whoever sent it to you, upload it to a portal, or store it in your files. It’s a regular PDF that works everywhere. If you’re signing a document to send it back, the workflow is simple: open in Signegy, add your signature, download, attach to reply.

Adding Signatures Without Adobe

A lot of people searching for how to add a signature to a PDF are specifically trying to avoid paying for Adobe Acrobat. That’s understandable. Acrobat’s signing features are locked behind a subscription, and the free Adobe Reader has limited signing capabilities that try to funnel you into Adobe’s cloud service.

Signegy is a straightforward alternative: open the PDF, add your signature, download. Nothing to install, no subscription. If you’re coming from Adobe specifically, how to add a signature to a PDF without Adobe walks through the differences in more detail.

You can also sign your PDF now if you want to jump straight to the tool, or read about all your options as a free PDF signer.