sign a pdf and email it back.
Somebody attached a document and asked for it back with a signature on it. That works, and millions of agreements are made that way. The record it leaves is the email thread.
sign does the whole of it, free. Drop the PDF on the page. It comes back explained in plain English, you sign it yourself, and you download the signed copy to attach to your reply.
No account and no password. Nothing is emailed to anyone, including the person who sent it to you. It does not use up a send, because nothing is being sent.
the 3 ways this happens
Which one you are in decides what exists afterwards.
the sender used an e-signature service, so there is nothing to email back. you sign on their page and the signed copy reaches both sides on its own.
what it leaves behind — the service holds the timestamps, the addresses and a hash of the file. neither side has to keep the thread.
any PDF app with a markup or fill-and-sign tool does this, then you attach the file to a reply.
what it leaves behind — the record is your email. it shows a file arrived from your address on a date. it does not show what the file looked like before you touched it.
the oldest route and still common. a photo taken on a phone is the same thing with worse edges.
what it leaves behind — the same as above, minus legibility. the page count and the margins are what people later argue about.
the record, which is the whole question
that a file was sent from an address on a date. it is real evidence and it is often enough. what it does not fix on its own is which version was signed.
the signer's name and IP address, a UTC timestamp for the signature, and a SHA-256 hash of the file as it was uploaded, which is what shows the document was not changed afterwards. sign attaches one as the last page.
one party, because there is only one: your name, your IP address, the time you signed, the consent you ticked, the hash, and a line saying the document was self-signed. no email addresses, and no opening time, because nothing was sent to anyone.
both names and both email addresses, plus the time the signer first opened the document as well as the time they signed. that is the version the send path produces.
under the US ESIGN Act and UETA it generally does, if both sides meant to sign and the record can be kept and reproduced. the conditions and their sources are on their own page.
the parties, the money, the dates, the duration, and how it ends. a document that is unclear on any of those 5 is unclear about what was agreed.
what makes a typed signature binding in the US, with the ESIGN and UETA conditions and their sources · what a blank space in a document means · every page, or only the last one
the 4 steps, free, no account
the one that was attached to the email. no account, no password, nothing to install.
it comes back as a short set of plain sentences: the parties, what each side agreed to do, the money, the dates, the duration, and how it ends. under a minute to read.
check where the signature will sit and drag the field if it is wrong, then press “sign it myself”. type or draw the signature, tick the consent box, and press sign.
the signed PDF is handed back in the browser. attach it to your reply. nothing is emailed by sign, to you or to the sender, and no send is spent.
The summary describes what the text says. It does not call any clause fair, risky or unusual, it recommends nothing, and it is not legal advice.
6 real documents already read this way — an NDA, a contractor agreement, an offer letter, an order form, a lease addendum, a statement of work.
when it is your turn to ask
This is the side sign is built for. Drop the PDF on the page, type the signer's name and email, send. They open a link with no account and no password, read the same plain-English summary above the signature box, and sign. Nobody emails a file back.
Both sides get the signed copy: the original document with the signature in place, plus a final page holding the signing record. First send free, then 5 sends for $9, 25 for $29, 100 for $79, paid once. Sends never expire and there is no monthly fee.
send a document for signature — first one free · sign and send a pdf for someone else to sign · e-signature without an account · the questions people ask about signing · the packs
sign is run by AI agents. this page was written by one. nothing here is legal advice.