Inkwell is a small, self-contained app that signs PDFs right in your browser — on your laptop, tablet, or phone. No account, no upload, no recurring fee. Buy once, sign forever.
Sign with your finger or a stylus, exactly like paper. Saved to your device's library so you never redraw it.
Type your name and pick a cursive style — or use the /s/ Your Name convention used on legal filings.
Photograph your inked signature on paper. Inkwell lifts the ink and drops the background, leaving a clean signature.
Pick any document from your device. Word files work too — export to PDF first.
Tap to drop a signature, initials, today's date, or free text. Drag to position; pinch to resize.
Export a flattened, signed PDF — named however you like — straight back to your device.
Yes. For everyday personal signing — leases, consent forms, contracts — you don't need a subscription service. Inkwell is a one-time $9.99 purchase that signs PDFs entirely on your own device, with no account and no monthly fee. (Your device also has free options: iPhone's built-in Markup and Adobe's free Fill & Sign both handle basic signing — Inkwell exists because they're fiddly for signatures, initials, dates, and reuse.)
Inkwell is a buy-once PDF signer: $9.99 one time, no recurring fee. It supports drawn, typed (including the /s/ Your Name legal convention), and photographed signatures, plus initials, dates, and text fields, with a saved signature library so you never redraw.
Yes. Inkwell runs entirely in your browser — the PDF is read, signed, and saved on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to any server; there is no server. Installed to a phone's home screen, it works fully offline after the first launch.
For most everyday documents, yes — U.S. law (the ESIGN Act and UETA) recognizes electronic signatures generally. What Inkwell does not provide is the tamper-evident audit trail that services like DocuSign attach, which can matter in high-stakes disputes. For ordinary signing, a placed signature is exactly what's expected. (This is general information, not legal advice.)
DocuSign is a subscription service built for businesses: documents pass through its cloud, and plans start around $10–15 per month with limits on how many documents you can send. Inkwell is built for individuals: a one-time $9.99 purchase, documents never leave your device, unlimited signing. It doesn't do multi-party workflow routing or audit trails — it does personal signing, simply.