Every European e-signature tool reviewed
Paris, France
Founded 2013
From about €9/month
Free trial
Best for: French and European businesses wanting eIDAS signing with an API
Yousign is the most complete general-purpose e-signature service in this category for a European business. eIDAS compliance is the foundation rather than a badge, giving signatures legal standing across the EU, and the operational features are the ones that determine whether a rollout survives: templates so recurring agreements are not rebuilt each time, bulk signing for sending the same document to many people, workflow automation for multi-party sequences, and an audit trail that is the actual evidence if a document is ever disputed.
The API is what makes it infrastructure rather than a tool. Contracts are usually generated somewhere — a CRM, an HR system, a quoting tool — and signing initiated from there rather than by someone downloading a PDF and uploading it again is the difference between a process and a habit that decays. Yousign supports that properly.
Yousign is based in Paris with French data storage, so signed documents — employment contracts, commercial terms, settlements — stay under EU jurisdiction with intra-EEA processing. Pricing starts around €9 per month. The limitations: Yousign focuses on signing rather than on identity verification, so a process needing deep KYC will pair it with something else, and QES coverage is narrower than Skribble's.
What Yousign does well
- eIDAS compliant with legal standing across the EU
- API for triggering signing from your own systems
- Templates, bulk signing and workflow automation
- Audit trail and document security
- French company, French storage, from about €9/month
Where Yousign falls short
- Less depth on identity verification than Signicat
- QES coverage narrower than Skribble's
- Not open source
- Strongest fit in the French market
Standout feature. Signing triggered from your own systems: Yousign's API means the contract goes out from the tool that generated it rather than from someone's downloads folder.
Zurich, Switzerland
Founded 2018
Free tier / from about CHF 12/month
Free tier
Best for: Businesses that need the highest legal level of signature
Skribble is the one service here covering all three eIDAS levels — SES, AES and QES — which matters because they are legally distinct instruments rather than tiers of quality.
QES is the level that carries the same legal effect as a handwritten signature across the EU and reverses the burden of proof: someone disputing it must prove it invalid, rather than you proving it genuine. For a document that would be expensive to lose in a dispute, that reversal is the entire point.
Getting there requires identity verification to a standard equivalent to showing a passport, which Skribble handles through qualified trust service providers. Being able to choose the level per document is the practical benefit: a routine NDA at SES, an employment contract at AES, a property or corporate document at QES, all in one platform rather than three.
Skribble AG operates from Zurich with Swiss hosting, and complies with both eIDAS and ZertES, the Swiss signature law — genuinely useful for a company signing with both Swiss and EU counterparties, which otherwise means two providers.
Switzerland sits under an adequacy decision rather than intra-EEA processing. There is a free tier with paid plans from about CHF 12 per month. The considerations: Swiss Franc pricing for non-Swiss buyers, and QES identity verification adds real friction for the signer, which is inherent to the level rather than a Skribble flaw.
What Skribble does well
- All three eIDAS levels including QES, chosen per document
- QES reverses the burden of proof in a dispute
- Complies with both eIDAS and Swiss ZertES
- Swiss hosting, free tier available
- Identity verification through qualified trust service providers
Where Skribble falls short
- QES identity verification adds friction for the signer
- Swiss Franc pricing for non-Swiss buyers
- Swiss adequacy rather than intra-EEA processing
- Not open source
Standout feature. Three legal levels in one platform: Skribble is the only service here where a routine NDA and a qualified corporate document can be signed through the same account.
Trondheim, Norway
Founded 2007
Custom pricing
Demo on request
Best for: Enterprises where identity verification matters as much as signing
Signicat treats identity as the product and signing as one thing you do with it, which is the correct emphasis: a signature is only as strong as the identity check behind it, and cryptography cannot rescue a signature anyone could have produced. Signicat covers electronic signatures alongside KYC, authentication and identity verification, which for a bank, an insurer or any regulated business is one platform rather than three integrations.
The distinguishing capability is using identities people already hold. Norwegian BankID integration lets a Norwegian signer identify themselves with bank credentials they already trust and use daily, which removes the friction that makes high-assurance signing painful — nobody has to obtain a new credential to sign one document. Signicat also supports the EU Digital Identity Wallet, which is where this whole category is heading as member states roll it out.
Signicat has operated from Trondheim since 2007, placing it in the EEA with the GDPR applying in full, and is eIDAS compliant with qualified signature support.
Pricing is custom, because identity verification is priced per check rather than per seat — the right model for the product and harder to compare against a monthly subscription. The considerations follow from the positioning: this is enterprise software with a sales process, aimed at regulated organisations rather than at a small team that wants to sign a contract this afternoon.
What Signicat does well
- Identity verification, KYC and authentication alongside signing
- Norwegian BankID integration removes signer friction
- EU Digital Identity Wallet support
- eIDAS compliant with qualified signature support
- Norwegian company, EEA jurisdiction, operating since 2007
Where Signicat falls short
- Custom pricing with an enterprise sales process
- Aimed at regulated organisations rather than small teams
- Overkill if you only need to sign documents
- Norway is EEA rather than EU, for procurement purposes
Standout feature. Signing with an identity people already have: Signicat is the only service here where a Norwegian signs with their bank ID rather than obtaining a new credential.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2014
Free tier / from about €7/month
Free tier
Best for: Small teams that need signing to be effortless for the other party
SignRequest is built around the observation that decides whether e-signing actually works: the person who abandons the process is almost never you. A counterparty who has to create an account, install something or puzzle out an interface will ask for a PDF to print and scan instead, and the whole exercise is defeated. SignRequest optimises hard for that external signer — open the link, sign, done — and simplicity at that point is worth more than any feature list.
For the sending side it covers what a small team needs: templates for recurring documents, team features for shared visibility, an API for triggering signing from other systems, and integrations with common business tools. eIDAS compliance gives the signatures legal standing across the EU.
SignRequest operates from Amsterdam with EU processing, so signed documents stay under European jurisdiction with intra-EEA processing. There is a free tier with paid plans from about €7 per month, the lowest here — for a small team signing a handful of documents monthly, the free tier may cover it outright. The limits are scope: no QES, less depth on identity verification than Signicat, and fewer workflow features than Yousign for complex multi-party sequences.
What SignRequest does well
- Optimised for the external signer, who is who actually abandons
- Templates, team features, API and integrations
- eIDAS compliant with legal standing across the EU
- Dutch company, EU processing
- Free tier with paid plans from about €7/month, cheapest here
Where SignRequest falls short
- No qualified electronic signatures (QES)
- Less identity verification depth than Signicat
- Fewer workflow features than Yousign for complex sequences
- Not open source
Standout feature. Nothing for the other party to install: SignRequest removes the step where the counterparty gives up and asks you to send a PDF instead.
Stockholm, Sweden
Founded 2010
Plans and enterprise pricing on request
Contact sales
Best for: Nordic businesses that want customers to sign with the eID they already have
Scrive is a Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS that built its product around a specifically Nordic reality: in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland almost everyone already has a state-backed digital identity they use for banking and tax, and asking them to instead draw a signature with a mouse is a step backwards in both security and convenience.
So Scrive signs with Swedish BankID, Norwegian BankID, Danish MitID and the Finnish Trust Network natively. The signer authenticates with the method they use every week, the identity is cryptographically established rather than assumed from an email address, and the completed document carries evidence a court will accept. All three eIDAS levels are supported, so the same platform covers a routine internal approval and a contract that needs a qualified signature.
Scrive AB has operated from Stockholm since 2010 and reports more than 10,000 customers across 50-plus countries. Pricing is quoted rather than published, which is friction for a small team evaluating it. Its centre of gravity is the Nordics: outside those markets the eID advantage largely disappears and it competes on ordinary e-signature terms.
What Scrive does well
- Native signing with Swedish and Norwegian BankID and Danish MitID
- Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS
- All three eIDAS signature levels on one platform
- Identity cryptographically established, not assumed from an email
- Swedish company, operating since 2010
Where Scrive falls short
- Pricing quoted rather than published
- eID advantage is concentrated in the Nordics
- Not aimed at self-serve individual use
- Enterprise sales cycle before evaluation
Standout feature. Customers sign with the BankID they use for their bank — no drawn squiggle, and no doubt about who signed.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Founded 2014
Published subscription plans
Contact sales
Best for: Accountants, lawyers and financial firms with a recurring signing workload
Penneo is built around the specific working life of regulated professions rather than around signing in general. An accounting firm does not sign one contract occasionally; it collects signatures and documents from hundreds of clients on a cycle dictated by reporting deadlines, and the work is chasing people rather than applying signatures.
That shapes the product: signing sits alongside structured data collection, so the same flow that gathers a signature also gathers the identification documents and declarations the engagement requires, with an audit trail recording who signed what and when. For a firm whose regulator will eventually ask that question, having the answer generated automatically is the value.
Penneo A/S was founded in Copenhagen in 2014 and reports more than 3,500 accounting firms, law practices and financial institutions using it, with particular strength in Denmark, Norway and Belgium. Pricing is published as subscription plans, which is more transparent than most of this category. The limits follow from the focus: it is aimed at professional services rather than at general business signing, and its market presence is Nordic and Benelux rather than pan-European.
What Penneo does well
- Signing and structured data collection in one flow
- Audit trail built for regulatory questions
- Designed around the compliance cycle of professional firms
- Published subscription pricing
- Danish company, 3,500+ regulated customers
Where Penneo falls short
- Aimed at professional services rather than general signing
- Market presence concentrated in the Nordics and Benelux
- Less flexible than a general e-signature platform
- Not the cheapest option for occasional signing
Standout feature. It collects the identification documents in the same flow as the signature — which is the actual job in a regulated firm.
Senigallia, Italy
Enterprise pricing on request
Contact sales
Best for: Organisations needing qualified signatures across several European countries
Namirial is a trust service provider rather than an e-signature app, and the distinction decides what its signatures are worth. It is certified as a Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS in Italy, Spain and France, which means it can issue qualified electronic signatures — the level that carries the same legal weight as a handwritten signature across the EU, and the level most e-signature tools cannot reach.
For an organisation operating in several European countries, being a QTSP in more than one jurisdiction is the practical differentiator. Qualified signature requirements are national in their administration even where the standard is European, and a provider certified in one country only leaves you assembling a different vendor per market.
Namirial S.p.A. operates from Italy across the wider trust services stack — identity verification, certificates, timestamping and archiving alongside signing — which suits an enterprise that needs the whole chain from one accountable provider. Pricing is enterprise and quoted, with no self-serve route in, and the breadth means more product than a company that simply wants contracts signed will use.
What Namirial does well
- Qualified Trust Service Provider in Italy, Spain and France
- Qualified signatures with full legal equivalence across the EU
- Identity verification, timestamping and archiving alongside signing
- Multi-country certification for cross-border operations
- Italian company, EU jurisdiction throughout
Where Namirial falls short
- Enterprise pricing on request, no self-serve entry
- More product than simple contract signing needs
- Interface less modern than the newer platforms
- Sales-led engagement before evaluation
Standout feature. Qualified status in three countries at once — the level of signature most tools here cannot issue at all.
Puch bei Hallein (Salzburg), Austria
Private free / Single €15/month (1 user, 100 AES + 10 QES per year) / Team €170/month (10 users, 1,200 AES + 120 QES per year), billed annually, excl. VAT / Enterprise on request
Free plan for individuals, students and associations; 14-day free trial of paid plans
Best for: Individuals and small teams that want signatures counted rather than seats sold
sproof GmbH is registered in Puch bei Hallein near Salzburg under FN 520262t at the Landesgericht Salzburg, and its imprint names no parent company — in a category where half the familiar names now sit under a holding somewhere else, an Austrian company that still belongs to itself is worth noting.
The pricing model is the unusual part. Instead of selling seats and metering nothing, sproof sells allowances: Single at €15 a month covers one user with 100 advanced and 10 qualified signatures a year, Team at €170 a month covers ten users with 1,200 advanced and 120 qualified, both billed annually and excluding VAT, with Enterprise quoted.
There is a genuinely free plan for private use, students and associations, and a fourteen-day trial of the paid plans. A low-volume team knows its bill for the year in advance; a busy one has to check whether 100 signatures is anywhere near enough.
Two things are missing and both matter here. sproof describes its hosting as ISO 27001-certified data centres in Europe and names neither the country nor the provider, which for a tool sold on European data handling is the one sentence a buyer wants completed.
And sproof is not on the Austrian trusted list: qualified signing runs through the eID providers integrated into its eID hub, not through sproof itself. It does not publish a founding year either. SES, AES and QES are all covered, and there is a REST API.
What sproof does well
- Austrian company with no parent company named in its imprint
- Free plan for private use, students and associations
- Signature allowances published: Single €15/month, Team €170/month for ten users
- SES, AES and QES with a REST API
- Fourteen-day trial of the paid plans
Where sproof falls short
- Hosting is described only as ISO 27001-certified data centres in Europe, with no country or provider named
- sproof is not on the Austrian trusted list; QES runs through integrated eID providers
- Signature allowances are capped: 100 advanced and 10 qualified a year on Single
- Enterprise pricing on request
- Not open source
Standout feature. Signatures are counted, not just seats: €15 a month buys one user 100 advanced and 10 qualified signatures for the year.
Berlin, Germany
Business €24.90 per user/month (12-month term) / Enterprise Light €242/month for 20 users / Enterprise Starter €6,900/year for up to 50 users / Premium on request; all excl. VAT; QES €1.50 per signature on the smaller plans
Free plan: 1 user for 30 days, expires automatically, no credit card
Best for: German organisations that want the documents on German hardware at a published price
FP Sign is run by FP Digital Business Solutions GmbH in Berlin, a subsidiary of Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG — so the ownership chain does not leave Germany at the first step, which is more than most of this category manages. It covers all three eIDAS levels, SES, AES and QES.
The infrastructure is the reason it ranks where it does. FP Sign states that documents are held in its own cloud in German data centres certified by the BSI, the German federal information security office, and it holds ISO 27001 and BSI C5.
That is a different proposition from a European company renting American capacity: the company, the cloud and the hardware are all in one jurisdiction. The gap in the story is that FP Sign does not name who operates those data centres, and it is not itself on the German trusted list — the qualified provider issuing the certificates behind QES goes unnamed too.
Pricing is published in full, which in this category is unusual enough to be a feature: Business at €24.90 per user per month on a twelve-month term, Enterprise Light at €242 a month for twenty users, Enterprise Starter at €6,900 a year for up to fifty, Premium on request, all excluding VAT, with QES charged at €1.50 per signature on the smaller plans.
A free single-user plan runs for thirty days and expires by itself, with no card. The commitment is the catch: there is no monthly way in on the Business plan, and a team that signs at volume should do the QES arithmetic before committing to a year.
What FP Sign does well
- German company under a German parent, Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG
- Documents in FP Sign's own cloud in BSI-certified German data centres
- ISO 27001 and BSI C5
- Full price list published, from €24.90 per user/month
- Free single-user plan for 30 days, no credit card
Where FP Sign falls short
- The Business plan is sold on a twelve-month term, with no monthly option
- FP Sign is not on the German trusted list, and the qualified provider behind QES is not named
- The operator of the German data centres is not named either
- QES costs €1.50 per signature on top of the smaller plans
- Not open source
Standout feature. The chain stays in one country: a Berlin company under a German parent, with the documents in its own cloud in German data centres.
Marzling, Germany
Founded 2022
inSign 365 €24.90 per user/month billed annually or €26.90 monthly, excl. VAT, 12-month minimum term / inSign connect (API) and enterprise on request; QES at a surcharge
Free test account, no credit card
Best for: German firms that would rather run the signing software themselves
inSign is the answer to a question the rest of this category cannot answer: what if you do not want to take anyone's word about the hosting at all. inSign enterprise can be installed on-premise, so the documents sit on hardware the customer controls and no vendor cloud is involved. For a hospital, an insurer or a public body with a rule about that, it decides the shortlist by itself.
The hosted product runs in a German provider's data centre, though inSign does not name the provider. inSign GmbH sits in Marzling in Bavaria and was incorporated at the end of 2022, when the product was spun out of iS2 AG, where it had been built in 2011; the owner is BSI Business Systems Integration Deutschland GmbH, whose parent is BSI Software AG in Dättwil, Switzerland.
European ownership, then, but one step outside the EU. It holds ISO 27001, alongside the BITMi "Software Hosted in Germany" and "Software Made in Germany" labels.
inSign 365 costs €24.90 per user per month billed annually or €26.90 monthly, excluding VAT, on a twelve-month minimum term; inSign connect, the REST API, and the enterprise editions are quoted. A free test account needs no card.
What is not settled: QES carries a surcharge that is not published, and it comes from a co-operation partner inSign does not name — inSign is not on the German trusted list itself. A buyer who needs qualified signatures should ask who that partner is before signing the twelve months.
What inSign does well
- On-premise edition, so signed documents need never reach a vendor cloud
- German company in Bavaria, owned through BSI Software AG in Dättwil, Switzerland
- Hosted product runs in a German provider's data centre
- ISO 27001
- Published seat price of €24.90 per user/month annually, €26.90 monthly
- Free test account with no credit card
Where inSign falls short
- Twelve-month minimum term on inSign 365
- The German hosting provider is not named
- QES comes from an unnamed partner at a surcharge that is not published
- inSign connect, the API, and the enterprise editions are priced on request
- Not open source
Standout feature. The on-premise edition: the only option here where the signed documents can stay on hardware you own.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Founded 2012
Pay as you go £1.50 per sent document / Solo Basic £10/month / Solo Pro £25/month / Team £15 per user/month (2–5 users), excl. VAT / 5+ users and Enterprise on request
14-day free trial, no credit card
Best for: UK organisations that want UK storage and pay-as-you-go billing
Legalesign Limited was incorporated on 28 May 2012, is registered in Glasgow as SC425013 and works from the St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge. Its persons-with-significant-control register lists three individuals each holding between 25% and 50%: no corporate parent and no private equity, which in a category currently being consolidated is a genuine distinction rather than a marketing line.
It is also the cheapest and the most flexible on price. Pay as you go costs £1.50 per document sent with nothing to subscribe to, and it is the only tool here billed purely on what you send.
Otherwise Solo Basic is £10 a month, Solo Pro £25, and Team £15 per user per month for two to five users, all excluding VAT, with five or more seats and Enterprise quoted. A fourteen-day trial asks for no card. Legalesign has held ISO 27001 since 2016 and Cyber Essentials Plus.
The reason it sits last here is jurisdiction and infrastructure, the two things this directory weighs first.
The United Kingdom is outside the EEA and covered by an adequacy decision rather than intra-EEA processing, so a buyer with a hard EU-establishment rule stops at that line.
And Legalesign runs on Amazon Web Services, an American provider, without naming a region — while its claim that all data is stored and processed in the UK appears on a marketing comparison page rather than in the privacy policy or the data processing agreement, which is the wrong document for a commitment of that kind. QES, when needed, is issued by Digidentity rather than by Legalesign.
What Legalesign does well
- Pay as you go at £1.50 per document sent, with no subscription
- Owned by three individuals, with no corporate parent or private equity on the PSC register
- ISO 27001 since 2016 and Cyber Essentials Plus
- Published prices from £10/month, the cheapest entry point here
- Fourteen-day trial without a credit card
- Incorporated in 2012, working from Cambridge
Where Legalesign falls short
- UK jurisdiction: outside the EEA, under an adequacy decision
- Runs on Amazon Web Services, a US provider, with no region named
- The UK-only storage claim sits on a comparison page, not in the privacy policy or DPA
- QES is issued by Digidentity rather than by Legalesign
- Prices in pounds, and five-plus-seat pricing is on request
Standout feature. £1.50 a document with nothing to subscribe to — the only tool here that bills purely on what you send.
Poznań, Poland
Founded 2012
PRO €20/month billed annually (€30 monthly) / PREMIUM €35/month billed annually (€55 monthly), 1 seat, net of VAT / Corporate and Enterprise on request
14-day free trial, no credit card
Best for: Businesses that need proof of delivery as well as proof of signature
Autenti is on the Polish EU trusted list as a qualified trust service provider, and it is worth reading what for, because the marketing shorthand hides the distinction.
Autenti is qualified for electronic registered delivery, granted in March 2024, and for qualified validation, granted in March 2026. It is not qualified to issue signature certificates: QES on the platform comes from InfoCert, SimplySign or mSzafir. So the qualified status is real and independently granted, and it covers a different thing from signing.
That different thing is useful. Qualified registered delivery is the eIDAS equivalent of registered post — evidence of what was sent, to whom, and when it arrived, with the same presumption in law. Most tools in this category prove that a document was signed and leave the delivery to email. Autenti also holds ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301, the business continuity standard, which few of its competitors bother with.
Autenti S.A. works from Poznań and has been trading since 2012, when it was registered as Autenti Sp. z o.o.; it converted to a joint-stock company in June 2026.
Seat pricing is published: PRO at €20 a month billed annually or €30 monthly, PREMIUM at €35 billed annually or €55 monthly, one seat each, net of VAT, with Corporate and Enterprise quoted.
There is a fourteen-day trial and no card is asked for. The weak point is location: Autenti says its data sits in the EEA in data centres subject to European law, and names neither the country nor the operator — which, for a buyer whose whole reason for shortlisting European tools is knowing where the documents are, is the sentence that needs finishing.
What Autenti does well
- On the Polish EU trusted list as a qualified trust service provider
- Qualified electronic registered delivery, which most signing tools do not offer
- ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301
- Published seat prices: PRO €20/month and PREMIUM €35/month billed annually
- Polish company trading since 2012, 14-day trial without a card
Where Autenti falls short
- The qualified status covers registered delivery and validation, not signature certificates
- QES is issued by InfoCert, SimplySign or mSzafir rather than by Autenti itself
- Hosting is given only as the EEA, with neither country nor operator named
- Corporate and Enterprise pricing is on request
- Not open source
Standout feature. Qualified registered e-delivery: Autenti is on a trusted list for proving a document arrived, not only for signing it.
