SignThis Review (2026)Free Plan, $8/mo, Tested Nov 2026
By Daan Haket · Tested hands-on · written with an AI assistant · who does what
The standout feature, sender-required palm verification, needs a paid plan, the Very app on every signer's phone, and extra envelopes per signer, and we have not tested it.
- Best for Solo senders with a few documents a month
From $8 · Basic · Free plan 3 documents a month · read 2026-11-14
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Is SignThis right for you?
Your pain“I send a handful of contracts a month and a paid signing plan costs more than it is worth.”
Does SignThis solve it?YesOur test (14 Nov 2026): on the free plan one PDF sent to three signers used one of the three monthly documents (counter 3 of 3 to 2 of 3), but a correction after sending used a second one and cancelling gave nothing back.
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Your pain“A typed or drawn signature proves nothing about who was at the other end.”
Does SignThis solve it?PartlyOur test (14 Nov 2026): VerySecure palm scan can be ticked per signer on the free plan, but Review and send then says it requires a paid subscription; we did not test the scan itself.
Your planSecure, $49 a month for 400 envelopes a year; palm checks use 1 envelope per signer
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Your pain“We need to send agreements from our own software without a manual upload each time.”
Does SignThis solve it?PartlyVendor reviewer guide, read 14 Nov 2026: a REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server start at Professional, with 200 envelopes a year.
Your planProfessional, $25 a month with 100 saved templates
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- you need notarization, identity-document checks, contract lifecycle management or a catalog of integrations, or you want to see a finished, sealed signature (our free-plan test stopped before that step).
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Exit test (measured 2026-11-14)
- Export route
- No export or reimport was performed
- Formats
- Not tested
- Attachments included
- Not tested
- Re-import tested
- No
- Lost on export
- Not tested
Formats describe this export route; offered formats may not have been inspected. Full exit test and scope ↓
Daan created the account and our AI assistant ran the test in Daan's browser. On 14 November 2026 the session tested SignThis on the free plan: one PDF to three signers, the document counter, VerySecure, a correction after sending, cancelling, and the page a signer sees without an account. The paid Professional plan was not activated. One PDF with three made up signers was uploaded at 12:56. Place signature blocks put a signature, name and date for all three signers on page 1 with one click. Review and send said Uses 1 of your 3 remaining free documents and that free workspaces can send each document to up to 10 recipients and to 25 in any 24 hours (0 of 25 used; this document goes to 3). It was sent at 12:58, and the counter then read 2 of 3 free documents left this month: three signers cost one document. VerySecure palm scan can be ticked per signer on the free plan, but Review and send then says VerySecure requires a paid subscription and that ordinary documents remain available within the free allowance. No palm scan or biometrics followed and the box was unticked again. The invitations to the made up signer addresses did not arrive: the activity log said Accepted by mail service, with a note that accepted does not mean the email is in the inbox. Our own mailbox does not deliver plus addresses, which is a limit on our side and not a fault of SignThis. Correct and resend as new version made a new draft with the same blocks; after changing signer 1 to a reachable address, Review and send said Uses 1 of your 2 remaining free documents, so a correction costs a new document. Afterwards both versions stood on Waiting: the first was not withdrawn by itself. Both requests were cancelled with Cancel request, and the counter stayed at 1 of 3 free documents left: cancelling does not give the document back. What a signer without an account sees: the invitation of 13:00 arrived in the Junk folder of our mailbox and says No account is needed and that the signer can decline or ask the sender for a paper alternative; the link is valid until 14 December. The link opens a page without any login, with the document name, the sender, the items You will be asked to give (a signature and a full name) and all participants. Review and continue offers Read it first, a reading mode (Reading only, Ready to sign?), Open original PDF, the electronic records and signatures disclosure and Agree and continue, with the note that continuing does not sign the document. The PDF could be read before agreeing. Agree and continue was not clicked and nothing was signed. The sender saw for signer 1 at once Opened, opened just now.
How we tested
- Free plan: one synthetic PDF sent to three made up signers, with the document counter read before and after
- Correct and resend, then cancelling both requests, with the counter read again
- Opened the signer link and the invitation without agreeing or signing anything
- Three signers cost one document: the counter went from 3 of 3 to 2 of 3 free documents left this month, and Review and send said Uses 1 of your 3 remaining free documents. One click on Place signature blocks put a signature, name and date for all three signers on page 1. Free workspaces can send each document to up to 10 recipients and to 25 in any 24 hours.
- A correction costs a new document. Correct and resend as new version made a new draft with the same blocks and said Uses 1 of your 2 remaining free documents. Both versions then stood on Waiting. Cancelling both left the counter at 1 of 3, so cancelling does not give the document back.
- VerySecure palm scan can be ticked per signer on the free plan, but Review and send then says VerySecure requires a paid subscription. The box was unticked and no palm scan followed.
Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 14 Nov 2026
SignThis has a free plan that sends 3 documents a month with no card and no end date; the allowance renews on the first day of each month (UTC) and is shared by every workspace one person creates. Individual plans have no annual commitment: Basic is $8 a month for 6 envelopes a month (the first month is $5 for a new subscriber), Standard is $20 a month for 120 envelopes a year and 25 saved templates, Professional is $25 a month for 200 envelopes a year and 100 templates with the REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server, and Secure is $49 a month for 400 envelopes a year.
Business plans need a 12-month commitment billed monthly: Starter is $30 a seat with 100 envelopes a year per seat and single sign-on, Standard is $35 a seat (3-seat minimum) with unlimited envelopes under fair use, and Professional is $65 a seat (3-seat minimum) with 500 templates. An ordinary send uses one envelope per document whatever the number of signers. VerySecure palm verification uses 2 envelopes per signer, or 1 per signer on Secure, and is not part of the free sending allowance.
We have not paid for a plan, so tax is not known. Plans change, so check the live price on their site before you buy.
Category context: IT & Productivity. Across the 44 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $15 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). SignThis’s entry price of $8 a month sits below that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →
AIBUILDER, 20% off the first 3 months of a SignThis plan with the code AIBUILDER, entered as a promotion code under Plan and billing. It does not apply to the Basic introductory checkout or to AppSumo purchases, and no end date was named. SignThis sent us this code in writing on 13 November 2026.Vendor-confirmed: Confirmed in writing by William Athanas, SignThis, 13 Nov 2026. Not tested by us at a checkout.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
The product leaves out notarization, identity-document checks, contract lifecycle management and ready-made integrations.
What SignThis does
E-signature tool with a free plan, where the sender can require a palm scan from signers before a signature counts.
Paid plans add envelopes, templates, the API and palm verification
The free plan covers an occasional sender: 3 documents a month, multiple signers, and signers who need no account. The first reason to pay is volume: Basic gives 6 envelopes a month, and Standard moves to a yearly pool of 120. The second is automation: the REST API, webhooks and MCP server start at Professional, $25 a month. The third is identity: palm verification through VerySecure requires an eligible paid plan and costs extra envelopes, 2 per signer, or 1 on Secure at $49 a month.
Single sign-on and workspace roles belong to the business plans, which need a 12-month commitment billed monthly.
What we found running SignThis ourselves
The first findings are at the top of this page. The rest:
- A signer needs no account. The invitation says No account is needed, the link is valid until 14 December and opens without a login. The signer can read the PDF before agreeing, and continuing does not sign it. The sender saw Opened, opened just now at once.
- The invitation landed in the Junk folder of our mailbox. The first invitations to made up plus addresses did not arrive (Accepted by mail service); our mailbox does not deliver plus addresses, which is a limit on our side.
Claim vs. what we measured
We set a claim from SignThis's own pages next to what we saw in our test, on the plan named. The status says whether the two describe the same thing and match; it is not a verdict on the product. Confirmations are listed too.
| What the vendor says | What we measured | Status | What it means if you buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uses 1 of your 3 remaining free documentsSource: our test notes, read 14 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-11-14: One PDF sent to three signers used one free document: the counter went from 3 of 3 to 2 of 3 left.Our test, 14 Nov 2026; Free plan; Professional not activated | ConfirmedOne document with three signers on one account. | Several signers on one document cost one document on the free plan. |
| Free workspaces can send each document to up to 10 recipients, and to 25 in any 24 hours.Source: our test notes, read 14 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-11-14: The limit is stated at Review and send, with 0 of 25 used for the 24 hours. It was not exceeded or tested.Our test, 14 Nov 2026; Free plan; Professional not activated | Not testableStated limit seen once; no attempt to exceed it. | Teams sending to more than 10 recipients per document need a paid plan. |
| Uses 1 of your 2 remaining free documentsSource: our test notes, read 14 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-11-14: Correcting a sent document made a new draft that costs another free document, and both versions stayed Waiting until cancelled. After cancelling both, the counter stayed at 1 of 3 left.Our test, 14 Nov 2026; Free plan; Professional not activated | ConfirmedOne correction and two cancellations on one account. | A correction after sending costs a document and cancelling gives nothing back, so check a document before sending it. |
| VerySecure requires a paid subscription.Source: our test notes, read 14 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-11-14: The palm scan box can be ticked per signer on the free plan; the refusal only appears at Review and send. The box was unticked again and no palm scan happened.Our test, 14 Nov 2026; Free plan; Professional not activated | ConfirmedObserved once at Review and send. | VerySecure needs a paid plan; the free plan lets you set it up before telling you. |
| No account is needed.Source: our test notes, read 14 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-11-14: The signer link opened without any login, the PDF could be read before agreeing, and continuing does not sign. The invitation landed in the Junk folder of our own mailbox. Signing itself was not tested.Our test, 14 Nov 2026; Free plan; Professional not activated | ConfirmedOne invitation to one mailbox; delivery to other providers was not tested. | Signers need no account, but tell them to check their spam folder. |
| Agree and continue to payment $25 / monthSource: our test notes, read 14 Nov 2026 | Measured 2026-11-14: Professional is shown at 25 dollars a month with an agreement to recurring billing, and Stripe checkout comes next. The step was not taken, no discount code could be entered in the app, and no checkout was opened, so tax, the effect of any code and the final payable total are unknown.Our test, 14 Nov 2026; Free plan; Professional not activated | Not testableApp page versus an unopened Stripe checkout; the stored cost rule has no matching checkout basis. | Check the price after any code, the tax and the renewal terms on the Stripe page before agreeing. |
Exit test: can you take your data out?
Daan created the account and our AI assistant ran the test in Daan's browser. On 14 November 2026 the session tested SignThis on the free plan: one PDF to three signers, the document counter, VerySecure, a correction after sending, cancelling, and the page a signer sees without an account. The paid Professional plan was not activated. One PDF with three made up signers was uploaded at 12:56. Place signature blocks put a signature, name and date for all three signers on page 1 with one click. Review and send said Uses 1 of your 3 remaining free documents and that free workspaces can send each document to up to 10 recipients and to 25 in any 24 hours (0 of 25 used; this document goes to 3). It was sent at 12:58, and the counter then read 2 of 3 free documents left this month: three signers cost one document. VerySecure palm scan can be ticked per signer on the free plan, but Review and send then says VerySecure requires a paid subscription and that ordinary documents remain available within the free allowance. No palm scan or biometrics followed and the box was unticked again. The invitations to the made up signer addresses did not arrive: the activity log said Accepted by mail service, with a note that accepted does not mean the email is in the inbox. Our own mailbox does not deliver plus addresses, which is a limit on our side and not a fault of SignThis. Correct and resend as new version made a new draft with the same blocks; after changing signer 1 to a reachable address, Review and send said Uses 1 of your 2 remaining free documents, so a correction costs a new document. Afterwards both versions stood on Waiting: the first was not withdrawn by itself. Both requests were cancelled with Cancel request, and the counter stayed at 1 of 3 free documents left: cancelling does not give the document back. What a signer without an account sees: the invitation of 13:00 arrived in the Junk folder of our mailbox and says No account is needed and that the signer can decline or ask the sender for a paper alternative; the link is valid until 14 December. The link opens a page without any login, with the document name, the sender, the items You will be asked to give (a signature and a full name) and all participants. Review and continue offers Read it first, a reading mode (Reading only, Ready to sign?), Open original PDF, the electronic records and signatures disclosure and Agree and continue, with the note that continuing does not sign the document. The PDF could be read before agreeing. Agree and continue was not clicked and nothing was signed. The sender saw for signer 1 at once Opened, opened just now. Not tested: the Professional plan, the VerySecure palm scan itself, the signing, the sealed PDF and audit certificate, API or MCP, templates and bulk send. No kit records were entered beyond the one synthetic PDF. Test date: 14 Nov 2026. We describe the friction rather than score it; this is one run with synthetic records, not a verdict on SignThis.
| What we checked | What we saw |
|---|---|
| Fields offered by the export dialog | |
| Not offered in the field selector | None noted. |
| The exported file | We did not inspect the file, so data retention and loss remain unverified. |
| Awkward but not lost | A correction after sending costs a new document and the original stays open until cancelled; cancelling gives nothing back. VerySecure can be ticked on the free plan and only refused at Review and send. The invitation landed in the Junk folder. |
| Export route | No export or reimport was performed; no file was downloaded or examined. The two categorised kit records were not entered; the objects tested were not kit records. |
| Export format | No downloaded bytes examined. |
| Re-importing the export | No reimport performed. |
| Cancelling | No cancellation or downgrade performed. |
What the exit test does not show:
- Original account registration and signup screen count.
- The paid Professional plan with a reader discount code, because the next step needs agreement to recurring billing and a Stripe checkout.
- Signing, the sealed PDF and audit certificate, the VerySecure palm scan itself, API or MCP, templates and bulk send.
- Support, checkout, export and reimport.
- Roles, API entitlement, downgrade, cancellation of a paid plan and passive follow up.
- Session and source-reading date: 14 November 2026. Times are CET. The session started at about 12:55 CET. These are approximate tester observations, not benchmark timings. Midnight timestamps are required date anchors, not measured event times.
Kit check counts
Kit documents-esigning 1.0.0; run signthis-2026-11-14; observed 2026-11-14.
- export / AIBM-001: Of 10 checks: 0 kept, 0 changed, 0 lost, 0 not offered, 10 not tested
- export / AIBM-002: Of 10 checks: 0 kept, 0 changed, 0 lost, 0 not offered, 10 not tested
- reimport / AIBM-001: Of 10 checks: 0 kept, 0 changed, 0 lost, 0 not offered, 10 not tested
- reimport / AIBM-002: Of 10 checks: 0 kept, 0 changed, 0 lost, 0 not offered, 10 not tested
Each record and phase uses this kit’s checks. Counts describe this run; they are not a score or a comparison between kits.
Mail in the first 14 days
Mail timeline: not measured.
Screenshots from our test (click to enlarge)
What this test does not show:
- The paid Professional plan: the next step needs agreement to recurring billing and a Stripe checkout
- The VerySecure palm scan itself, signing, the sealed PDF and audit certificate
- API or MCP, templates and bulk send
- Support, export and reimport, roles, downgrade and cancelling a paid plan
- Original account registration and the screen count
Most of our reviews are researched rather than run. How we review explains which is which, and why we do not pretend otherwise.
How to actually use SignThis
Create a free account on signthis.pro, upload a PDF, place the signature and other fields, add the signers in an order if needed, and send. Each signer gets a personal email link and signs on a phone or computer without an account. When the last person signs, the PDF is sealed with a PAdES digital signature and an RFC 3161 timestamp, and everyone receives the sealed copy and an audit certificate.
The free verify page checks a finished PDF in the browser without uploading it. To use palm verification, the sender ticks VerySecure for chosen signers; each of them needs the Very app. SignThis says it is available on eligible paid plans, for adult signers, and that SignThis receives no palm images. The reviewer page also says SignThis does not include notarization, identity-document checks, contract lifecycle management or a catalog of ready-made integrations.
Distilled from SignThis's own pricing section and reviewer page (signthis.pro/reviewers, facts checked by the vendor on 13 November 2026), read on 14 November 2026. SignThis pays us a commission on customers who use our reader code, and the vendor gave us a free test account. On 14 November 2026 we ran a hands-on test on the free plan: sending one PDF to three signers, a correction, cancelling, and the signer's view. We did not test the paid plans, the palm scan, or the signing itself.
The natural comparison is DocuSign: DocuSign is the big incumbent with a long integration list, while SignThis is smaller, cheaper at the low end and adds sender-required palm verification. Compare the envelope limits per year against your sending volume.
Frequently asked questions
Can you export your data from SignThis?
Exit check 2026-11-14; route excerpt: No export or reimport was performed; came along (excerpts): not tested; lost (excerpts): not tested; re-import: not tested.
How much does SignThis cost?
Per the vendor pages read on 14 November 2026, there is a free plan with 3 documents a month. Paid individual plans are Basic $8, Standard $20, Professional $25 and Secure $49 a month with no annual commitment. Business plans are $30, $35 and $65 a seat a month on a 12-month commitment.
What counts as an envelope?
An ordinary send uses one envelope per document, however many people sign. A VerySecure send uses 2 envelopes per signer, or 1 per signer on the Secure plan, according to the reviewer page.
Do signers need an account?
No. Signers get a personal email link and sign on a phone or computer. VerySecure signers do need the Very app for the palm check.
Does it have an API?
Yes, from Professional at $25 a month: a REST API, signed webhooks and an MCP server, with 100 saved templates. The free and Basic plans do not include API access.
Is there a reader discount?
SignThis gave us the code AIBUILDER, 20% off for 3 months, sent in writing on 13 November 2026. It does not apply to the Basic introductory checkout or to AppSumo purchases, and no end date was given.
Is this a hands-on review of SignThis?
Yes. We tested SignThis ourselves on 2026-11-14; the section above says what we tested, what we found and what we did not test, and where a figure comes from the vendor's own documentation instead. Most of our reviews are researched rather than run; we say which is which. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Read 2026-11-14 on signthis.pro and signthis.pro/reviewers, US dollars a month before tax.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
- Our own hands-on session with SignThis (2026-11-14), written up in full further down this page.
Bottom line
In one line: E-signatures with palm verification; free plan, paid from $8 a month.
Best for: solo senders with a few documents a month.
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