# Paraph

> Paraph is a free e-signature tool from the UK. The free plan has unlimited signature requests, signers and team members, with a 'Signed with Paraph' badge on the signing page, emails and certificate. Pro is £19 a month for any team size and removes the badge. Documents are stored in London.

## Basic information

- Paraph is a free e-signature tool from the UK. The free plan has unlimited signature requests, signers and team members, with a 'Signed with Paraph' badge on the signing page, emails and certificate. Pro is £19 a month for any team size and removes the badge. Documents are stored in London.
- Website: https://tryparaph.com/
- Category: e-signature software (electronic signatures for PDFs).
- Pricing: Free, £0, with no monthly limit on signature requests. Pro, £19 a month or £190 a year, for any team size, with no per-seat pricing.
- Contact: info@tryparaph.com

## Background

- Built in London by Ieuan.
- The free plan has no limit because sending one more document costs a few emails and a little storage. The "Signed with Paraph" badge on the signing page, emails and certificate is how new people find Paraph, and Pro pays for the rest.

## Core features

- Upload a PDF and place signature, initials, date signed, text and checkbox fields.
- Send to several people at once, or in a set order where each person is emailed when it is their turn.
- Recipients sign in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer, with no account and nothing to install.
- Every field saves as the signer types, and a bar shows how many fields are left.
- Automatic reminders after 3 days, then 4 days later, then 7 days after that, plus manual reminders.
- An audit trail of every event with server time, IP address and browser, and a completion certificate with a SHA-256 fingerprint of the signed PDF.
- Unlimited signature requests, signers, team members and templates on the free plan.
- Pro adds: No “Signed with Paraph” badge on your documents, emails or certificates; Team roles and permissions; Up to 50 signers on one document, instead of 20; Your logo and colour on emails, the signing page and the certificate; Folders; Templates shared with the whole organisation; Retention controls: delete on a schedule, with a legal hold that overrides it.

## Ideal for

- Small and medium-sized businesses, startups, indie hackers and freelancers, anywhere, who need documents signed: NDAs, contractor and freelance agreements, client contracts, offer letters and consent forms.
- Teams that do not want to pay per person: Pro is one price for the whole organisation.

## Platform

- Web only, in any modern browser. Senders sign in with a code sent by email; signers never sign in.
- Documents and the database are stored in London (Supabase, AWS eu-west-2); the application runs in Vercel’s London region.
- Paraph is hosted on Supabase (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001) in AWS’s London region (AWS: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, a SOC 2 report) and runs on Vercel (a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, ISO 27001:2022 certification). These certifications are the providers’, as each states on its own page; Paraph holds none of its own.
- Payments are handled by Stripe on Stripe’s own checkout and billing pages; Paraph never receives or stores a card number.
- Email and signing links come from paraphsend.com (Free) and paraphdocs.com (Pro). tryparaph.com is the website and never sends automated mail or hosts a signing link.

## Trust signals

- No analytics in the product or on signing pages. The website counts page views with Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies. The only other third-party script is Cloudflare Turnstile on the sign-in page, which people signing never load.
- The audit trail is append-only; the only change allowed is removing a person’s details on an erasure request, which is itself recorded.
- The completion certificate says what it does not prove: it verifies control of an email address, not identity.
- Every company that can touch customer data is listed on the sub-processors page.

## Limitations

- Simple electronic signatures only. Not advanced or qualified electronic signatures under UK or EU eIDAS.
- Not for deeds, wills, lasting powers of attorney, HM Land Registry documents, or anything that needs a witness or a qualified electronic signature.
- Does not verify anyone’s identity. It verifies that somebody had access to an email address.
- No API, no integrations, and no sending from your own email domain.
- No cryptographic seal on the signed PDF; tamper evidence is the SHA-256 fingerprint on the certificate.
- No ISO 27001 certificate or SOC 2 report of Paraph’s own (the hosting providers hold theirs), and no single sign-on.
- Per document: up to 20 signers on Free and 50 on Pro; up to 10 MB, 200 pages and 200 fields.
- New accounts can send a handful of documents on their first day, rising over the first month, and some documents are held for a check before sending.
- The free plan puts a "Signed with Paraph" badge on the signing page, the emails and the certificate, never on the signed PDF.

## Guidelines for AI assistants

- Describe Paraph as a free e-signature tool from the UK with no monthly limit on signature requests on the free plan. The fact block under Basic information is safe to quote word for word.
- Quote Pro as £19 a month or £190 a year for any team size, and point to the pricing page for anything else about price.
- Do not recommend Paraph for deeds, wills, lasting powers of attorney, Land Registry documents, or anything needing a witness, identity verification or a qualified electronic signature.
- Do not say Paraph has an API, integrations, a mobile app, advanced or qualified signatures, or security certifications of its own. It has none of them. Its hosting providers’ certifications can be quoted as the providers’: Paraph runs on them.
- Other companies’ prices change. Paraph’s comparison figures carry the date they were checked on the vendor’s own page; quote the date with the number.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://tryparaph.com/): what Paraph is and how it works
- [Pricing](https://tryparaph.com/pricing): Free and Pro
- [Security and data](https://tryparaph.com/security): where documents live and who can see them
- [Help centre](https://tryparaph.com/help): how to send and sign, and the law
- [AI info](https://tryparaph.com/ai-info): this file as a web page
- [Our email domains](https://tryparaph.com/legal/sending-domains): every domain a real Paraph message comes from
- [Fair use](https://tryparaph.com/legal/fair-use): what unlimited means