OpenSignLabs/OpenSign
Direct self-hosted DocuSign alternative; choose it when you want a peer with a JavaScript implementation and its own community/features.
🔥 The free & Open Source DocuSign alternative
- 6.9k
- JavaScript
- NOASSERTION
active2d ago
documenso/documenso alternatives
e-signature / digital document signing
Self-hosted open-source digital document signing platform (DocuSign alternative) for sending, signing, and managing contracts.
Drop-in peers
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
docusealco/docuseal
Same self-hosted DocuSign alternative; choose it for a Ruby-based lightweight server with fillable forms.
Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️
- 18.3k
- Ruby
- AGPL-3.0
active6d ago
Same job, different approach
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko
Python library for PDF signing/stamping; choose it when you want to embed signing into a Python app instead of operating a full service.
pyHanko: sign and stamp PDF files
- 759
- Python
- MIT
active2d ago
elevityadmin/trilli
Self-hosted suite with e-sign plus storage/collaboration; choose it when you need those extra functions in one product.
Trilli — open-source self-hosted cloud storage, collaboration & e-signature platform. One Go binary per service.
- 62
- TypeScript
- MIT
active9d ago
vbuch/node-signpdf
Node library for low-level PDF signing; choose it when you need simple signing inside a Node app.
Simple signing of PDFs in node.
- 935
- JavaScript
- MIT
active1mo ago
digitorus/pdfsign
Go PDF signing library; choose it for programmatic AES/QES signing with no platform overhead.
Add/verify Advanced Electronic Signature (AES) and Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) in PDF (using pure Go)
- 164
- Go
- BSD-2-Clause
active6d ago
Keyfactor/signserver-ce
PKI-based signing server (code/doc/time); choose it when you need cryptographic signing services, not a user-facing e-sign UI.
SignServer – Open source, PKI-based signing software to sign code, documents, timestamps and more.
- 431
- Java
- LGPL-2.1
slowing7mo ago
dealfonso/sapp
PHP PDF parser/signer; choose it when you need PDF sign/parse in PHP.
Simple and Agnostic PDF Document Parser in PHP - sign PDF docs using PHP
- 156
- PHP
- LGPL-3.0
active2mo ago
Older generation, or narrower
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
LibreSign/libresign
Nextcloud-integrated signing; choose it when you already run Nextcloud and don't need a standalone portal.
Control how your documents get signed
- 790
- PHP
- AGPL-3.0
active1d ago
End-user tools
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
intoolswetrust/jsignpdf
Desktop/CLI PDF signing tool; choose it for local, non-collaborative signing.
Cross-platform PDF digital signing tool. JavaFX desktop UI with drag-to-place visible signatures, PKCS#11/PKCS#12 keystores, RFC 3161 timestamping, OCSP/CRL long-term validation, and a scriptable CLI.
- 462
- Java
- NOASSERTION
active6d ago
Listed as an alternative to
These projects were analysed and named documenso among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how documenso rates them is a separate judgement, made when documenso is analysed in its own right.
docusealco/docuseal
calls documenso “Choose when you want a TypeScript-based open-source signing platform with a similar feature set to Docuseal.”
Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️
18.3kRubyactive