Sign a PDF without uploading it

A contract, a lease, a school form: you need your signature on it, and you would rather not upload it to a stranger's website to get there. PDFPane signs PDFs inside Chrome, on your own computer.

The PDFPane signature window with Draw, Type and Upload tabs and a name typed in six handwriting styles — Draw it, type it, or use a photo of your signature.

Three ways to make your signature

Draw it with a mouse, a trackpad or a finger on a touch screen. Strokes are smoothed like ink, not jagged.
Type your name and pick one of six handwriting styles. Styles that cannot write your name — Cyrillic, say — step aside, so you never get empty boxes.
Upload a photo or scan of your signature on paper. The white paper is removed automatically; only the ink stays.

Black or blue ink. Tick Remember on this computer and it is one click next time — kept in your browser only.

Step by step

Open the PDF in Chrome and click the PDFPane button, or drop the file into the editor — or open PDFPane in your browser and drop the file there.
Click Sign, make your signature, then click where it goes — the signature line.
Drag it into place and pull its corner to make it bigger or smaller.
Add today's date with Date, your initials with Text.
Download. The signed copy is a new file; the original stays unchanged.

A PDF in PDFPane with a signature placed on the signature line and the date beside it — Signed on the line, dated beside it.

Good to know

This is a picture of your signature placed on the page — what most people mean by "signing a PDF", and what most forms and landlords accept. It is not a certificate-based digital signature.
Password-protected PDFs open with their password, checked on your computer; you choose whether the signed copy keeps it.