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Nine Dropbox Sign alternatives worth a shortlist.

Dropbox Sign, formerly HelloSign, is Dropbox's e-signature product, priced per sender with unlimited signature requests on every paid plan. Here is what teams move to when they need qualified signatures, EU hosting by default or a contract that keeps working after it is signed.

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By Felix Scholz, fynkLast reviewed Pricing checked against public price lists

The short version.

  1. fynk if you want contracts and signatures up to QES in one European system, with an AI assistant that reads them.
  2. DocuSign if you need every eIDAS level, a REST API and a signing flow your counterparties recognise.
  3. Xodo Sign if simple signatures are enough and you want unlimited documents and a PDF editor at a low per-user price.
  4. SignNow if many people share one account and the number of signature requests stays modest.
  5. Youtrust (formerly Yousign) or Skribble if you need all three eIDAS signature levels from a European provider and nothing beyond signing.

Still the right call if simple signatures cover your contracts, you want unlimited requests at a per-sender price and your team already works in Dropbox, Google Drive or HubSpot: Dropbox Sign itself. Here is when we say so.

More than 3,000 teams chose fynk to outgrow legal chaos.

Nobody switches because the signatures stopped working.

  1. A signed document is listed, not read.

    Dropbox Sign shows every signed document in one place and lets you search by title, signer, sender and date. It does not search the text of the document, and it does not hold renewal dates, values or notice periods as data.

  2. Qualified signatures run through the API.

    Signatures sent from the web app plans are simple electronic signatures. Advanced and qualified signatures come from Dropbox Sign eID, an add-on bought on top of the API Premium plan.

  3. EU hosting sits in Premium.

    The default region on every plan is the US. EU data residency, SSO, SMS authentication and Salesforce come with Premium, which starts at five users and is quoted by sales.

  4. Nothing happens before the signature either.

    Templates save the signature fields on a fixed document. There is no document editor, no redlining, no clause library and no internal approval step before a request goes out.

Side by side

The shortlist at a glance.

ToolBest forFromEU hostingQESRepository
fynkEuropean teams that want contracts, AI and eIDAS signing (up to QES) in one system with transparent per-user pricingFrom €19 per user/month (annual)Yes (EEA)YesYes (Document hub)
DocuSignOrganisations that mainly need high-volume e-signature with broad integrations and international legal acceptance€38 per user/month (Business Pro, annual)EU region, guarantee on EnhancedAdd-on, from €10 per recipientAI repository in IAM plans
Adobe Acrobat SignOrganisations already standardised on Adobe Acrobat that need PDF-centric e-signatures and enterprise integrations.$23.99 per user/month (Acrobat Pro for teams, annual)Via third-party TSPSigned-docs archive
Xodo Signsmall teams that need unlimited simple e-signatures and PDF editing at a low per-seat price$16 / user / moNoNo
SignNowsmall and mid-sized teams, mainly in North America, that send a modest number of signature requests and want many users on one account€30/month flatEU option (Premium+)Site License add-onDocument storage
Youtrust (Yousign)European SMEs that need compliant signing at every eIDAS level plus KYC checks, without managing contracts after signature€23/user/moYes (France)Add-on, from €10Signing archive only
SkribbleDACH teams that mainly need legally strong signatures, especially QES under Swiss and EU law€36 per user/monthSwitzerland or Germany, chosen at setupQES (eIDAS + ZertES)Signing inbox only
PandaDocSales-led teams that build proposals and quotes from their CRM and want signing in the same flow.$49 per user/month (Business, annual)EU option (Frankfurt)Yes, $5 per signerYes (Business+)
OneflowNordic and European mid-market teams sending sales and HR contracts€50 / user / monthYes, IrelandYes, via eID add-onYes, with import

Prices as listed for the plan a typical team would buy, in the vendor's currency. Each cell is checked against the vendor's own pages; links and check dates are in the references below.

The alternatives in detail.

Same shape for every entry: what it is, where it wins, where it does not, who should shortlist it.

fynk

01 fynk

European teams that want contracts, AI and eIDAS signing (up to QES) in one system with transparent per-user pricing

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This is our page, so read this section with that in mind. fynk is a contract platform with e-signature built in, not a signature tool with contract features bolted on. Every document is read on arrival, so parties, dates, values and notice periods come back as structured data.

Where it wins

  • Contract management and signing in one subscription
  • EU hosted by default, ISO 27001
  • SES, AES and QES on every plan
  • Self-serve setup, a free plan and a 14-day trial

Where it does not

  • Less brand recognition outside Europe
  • API and native HubSpot integration only from the Business plan
  • No notarisation and no SOC 2 report
  • Too much tool under five contracts a year
From €19 per user/month (annual)

02 DocuSign

Organisations that mainly need high-volume e-signature with broad integrations and international legal acceptance

A widely used e-signature platform, with repository, AI and contract management sold as separate IAM plans. For a team leaving Dropbox Sign that wants to stay with a signature specialist but needs the API on a standard plan, it is the name enterprise counterparties already know.

Where it wins

  • Every eIDAS level, QES as an add-on from €10 per recipient
  • REST API on every eSignature plan
  • ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and a German interface

Where it does not

  • Envelope allowance per user per year, overage billed
  • Repository, extraction and renewals need a separate IAM plan
  • AES, the data residency guarantee and Salesforce or Dynamics only on sales-led Enhanced plans
€38 per user/month (Business Pro, annual)

03 Adobe Acrobat Sign

Organisations already standardised on Adobe Acrobat that need PDF-centric e-signatures and enterprise integrations.

The signature product inside the Adobe document ecosystem. If your documents already live in Acrobat and the people handling them already have licences, it is the path of least resistance.

Where it wins

  • Fits an existing Acrobat document stack
  • SES, AES and QES, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001
  • Payments, bulk send and web forms from Acrobat Pro for teams

Where it does not

  • No contract management layer; CLM comes through partners
  • QES through third-party trust service providers
  • CRM integrations and advanced authentication in Sign Solutions, priced on request
$23.99 per user/month (Acrobat Pro for teams, annual)

04 Xodo Sign

small teams that need unlimited simple e-signatures and PDF editing at a low per-seat price

The rebranded eversign, now part of the Canadian document technology company Apryse. Close to Dropbox Sign in scope: priced per user with unlimited documents and simple signatures, with PDF editing added on the Professional plan.

Where it wins

  • Unlimited documents on paid plans at a low per-user price
  • PDF editing and an AI summariser on Professional
  • SOC 2 Type II and signing order on every plan

Where it does not

  • Simple electronic signatures only, no AES or QES
  • Hosted in the US, sender interface in English
  • No approvals, renewal tracking or native CRM integration
$16 / user / mo

05 SignNow

small and mid-sized teams, mainly in North America, that send a modest number of signature requests and want many users on one account

An e-signature product from airSlate, priced per account rather than per seat. It is the opposite trade-off to Dropbox Sign: unlimited users and a capped number of signature invites, where Dropbox Sign charges per sender and leaves requests unlimited.

Where it wins

  • Flat price per account with unlimited users
  • Payments from Business Premium, approval steps on Enterprise
  • Official MCP server, SOC 2 Type II

Where it does not

  • 100 signature invites per account per year on annual plans, then pay-as-you-go
  • QES, full API access and premium CRM integrations need the sales-led Site License
  • No contract management: no AI review, renewal tracking or metadata extraction
€30/month flat

06 Youtrust (Yousign)

European SMEs that need compliant signing at every eIDAS level plus KYC checks, without managing contracts after signature

A French e-signature and trust-services provider, renamed from Yousign to Youtrust in 2026. If the requirement is eIDAS coverage and nothing beyond it, a specialist is usually cheaper and simpler than a platform.

Where it wins

  • Hosted in France, its own eIDAS trust service provider
  • Unlimited simple signatures from the Plus plan
  • Official MCP connector on all licences

Where it does not

  • No contract management, repository or renewal tracking
  • QES and ID-checked AES cost extra per signature
  • API sold as separate plans
€23/user/mo

07 Skribble

DACH teams that mainly need legally strong signatures, especially QES under Swiss and EU law

A Zurich-based e-signature provider that covers qualified signing under both EU and Swiss law from one account. Deliberately not a contract system: Skribble recommends pairing it with separate contract management.

Where it wins

  • SES, AES and QES under both eIDAS and Swiss ZertES
  • Swiss or German data centre, ISO 27001
  • Free pay-per-signature plan and a 14-day trial

Where it does not

  • Signature only: no templates, repository or approvals
  • AES and QES within an annual allowance per user, overage billed
  • API from Pro, Salesforce and SSO on the custom Scale plan
€36 per user/month

08 PandaDoc

Sales-led teams that build proposals and quotes from their CRM and want signing in the same flow.

Built around the sales motion: templates, a product catalogue, quotes, payments and signing in one flow. If the document that slows you down is a proposal rather than an MSA, it is the closer fit.

Where it wins

  • Strong proposal and quote builder
  • Deep CRM integrations
  • Payments collected in the document

Where it does not

  • Renewal tracking and locked templates are Business add-ons
  • EU hosting is an option, not the default
  • No advanced signature (AES), QES via partners per signer
  • API only on Enterprise
$49 per user/month (Business, annual)

09 Oneflow

Nordic and European mid-market teams sending sales and HR contracts

A Nordic contract platform built around sales and HR agreements, combining a document editor, signing, AI extraction and a repository in one subscription.

Where it wins

  • EU hosted in Ireland, ISO 27001
  • Contract management and signing in one subscription
  • Native HubSpot, Salesforce and Dynamics integrations

Where it does not

  • AES and QES through an eID add-on
  • AI playbook review is a beta add-on
  • SOC 2 Type 1 only
€50 / user / month
Buyer guide

What to look for in a Dropbox Sign alternative.

Five questions decide most of these evaluations. Answer them before you book demos and the shortlist above collapses to two or three names.

The signature level you actually need.

eIDAS defines three levels. A simple electronic signature covers most commercial contracts in the EU. Advanced and qualified signatures need identity verification behind them, and some documents will not hold without one. Ask each vendor which plan includes AES and QES, and whether they come from the product you use every day or from a separate API contract.

Which plan your requirements land in.

Several vendors keep the features a growing team asks for, such as SSO, EU data residency or a CRM integration, in a higher tier that is quoted rather than listed. Write down your must-haves first, then check which plan they fall into. That decides the real price more than the entry figure does.

Where the data lives and who owns the company.

Most US vendors offer EU data residency as a configuration, often from a higher tier. For regulated buyers in DACH that is not always the same answer as a European company on European infrastructure.

What happens after the signature.

This is the question that splits the list. An e-signature tool treats a completed document as the end of the process. A contract platform treats it as the start.

When Dropbox Sign is still the right answer.

Worth saying plainly, since we sell against it. If simple electronic signatures cover your contracts and the document stops mattering once it is signed, Dropbox Sign does that job cleanly: unlimited signature requests on every paid plan, a per-sender price, and recipients who never pay. It fits teams already working in Dropbox, Google Drive or HubSpot, its interface runs in 22 languages, and it brings its own SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 reports. We do not have a SOC 2 report, and our interface is in German and English only.

Why teams pick fynk

Signed is where the contract starts.

In Dropbox Sign a completed document joins a list you can search by title, signer or date. In fynk every document is read on arrival on every plan: the dates and values come back as data you can filter and report on, full-text search covers the contents, and the assistant answers questions across the whole repository.

  • Contracts and eIDAS signatures up to QES in one subscription, no API add-on
  • EU hosted by default, ISO 27001
  • AI review and metadata extraction on every plan
  • Your signed archive imported and read on arrival
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Framework agreement, Nordwind Analytics Signed
  • Renewal date 31 March 2027
  • Notice period 3 months
  • Contract value €48,000 per year
  • Signature level QES

Which supplier contracts auto-renew before March?

Pricing

How Dropbox Sign (HelloSign) pricing actually behaves.

Most of the surprise in an e-signature invoice comes from a few mechanics rather than from the headline price. They are worth understanding before you compare any two quotes, including ours.

Unlimited requests, capped templates.

Every paid web plan includes unlimited signature requests, and only senders pay: someone who just receives and signs a request is not a sender. What is capped is the number of templates, at 5 on Essentials, 15 on Standard and unlimited on Premium. The free plan allows three signature requests a month for one user, and paid plans come with a 30-day trial.

Standard is the realistic team plan.

Essentials is a single-user plan at US$15 per month, billed annually. Standard is the plan for small teams, at US$25 per user per month billed annually and starting at US$600 a year for two users. It adds in-person signing, advanced signer fields and the HubSpot integration. For five or more users, Dropbox asks you to contact sales.

The team features are quoted.

EU data residency, SSO, SMS authentication, multi-team administration and the Salesforce integration sit in Premium, which is for five or more users and is sold through a custom quote. Salesforce is additionally listed as an add-on at extra cost. If any of those is a must-have, the Standard price is not the number to compare.

Advanced and qualified signatures are an API purchase.

The API is a separate product with its own plans: API Essentials at US$75 per month for 50 signature requests, API Standard at US$250 per month for 100, and API Premium on request. Dropbox Sign eID, which provides AES and QES through providers such as Swisscom, Belgian eID or itsme, is an add-on on API Premium. If your contracts need a qualified signature, that is the line item to ask about.

What to ask for in writing.

Ask any vendor on your shortlist for the same three numbers: the total annual cost at your real document volume, what happens when you exceed the allowance, and what the second and third year look like after any first-year discount. Those three answers reorder most shortlists more than any feature table does.

How to move without losing your archive.

  1. Download your signed documents.

    Save completed documents while the Dropbox Sign account is still active, ask Dropbox how to export the full archive before you cancel, and check the count against your records.

  2. Bulk import the archive.

    fynk reads each PDF and extracts parties, dates, values and terms, so the archive arrives searchable instead of as a folder dump.

  3. Rebuild templates, not documents.

    Move the five templates that cover most of your volume. The long tail can follow.

  4. Run both for one month.

    New contracts go to the new system, anything mid-signature finishes where it started.

After the switch

What teams report once contracts stop living in a folder.

TIME
80%

less spent on contract admin

PROCESSING
1h to 2m

to read a contract and extract its terms

DRAFTING
33%

faster to get a contract out the door

SCALE
3.000+

teams running contracts on fynk

"What convinced me was fynk's architecture and roadmap. It wasn't just a signature tool, it was clearly designed as a complete contract solution."

Harald R. Fortmann Founder & Managing Director of five14
References

Where these figures come from.

  • fynk [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
  • DocuSign [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
  • Adobe Acrobat Sign [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
  • Xodo Sign [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
  • SignNow [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
  • Youtrust (Yousign) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
  • Skribble [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
  • PandaDoc [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
  • Oneflow [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
  • Dropbox Sign [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Spotted a figure that has moved? Tell us at [email protected] and we will re-check the row.

Frequently asked questions.

  • Yes. Dropbox acquired HelloSign in 2019 and renamed it Dropbox Sign in 2022, when the HelloSign API also became the Dropbox Sign API. It is the same product under a new name, so a search for HelloSign alternatives is a search for Dropbox Sign alternatives.

  • Dropbox Sign itself has a free plan with three signature requests a month for one user, and a 30-day trial of its paid plans. Among the alternatives, fynk has a free plan for one user alongside a 14-day trial, and Skribble has a free pay-per-signature plan. Free tiers cap out fast, so compare the paid plan you would actually grow into.

  • Only through Dropbox Sign eID, an add-on bought on the API Premium plan, with providers such as Swisscom, Belgian eID or itsme. Signatures sent from the Essentials, Standard and Premium web plans are simple electronic signatures. fynk includes SES, AES and QES on every plan.

  • In the US by default, on every plan. Premium customers can choose another region, including the EU, where documents can be stored in Frankfurt with a backup in Paris. Australia, Japan, Canada and the UK are also available.

  • The free plan covers three signature requests a month for one user. Essentials, for a single sender, costs US$15 per month billed annually. Standard costs US$25 per user per month billed annually, from two users, or €24 on the euro price list. Premium, with EU data residency, SSO and Salesforce, is quoted for five or more users, and the API is priced separately from US$75 per month.

  • Dropbox Sign, formerly HelloSign, includes unlimited signature requests on every paid plan, while DocuSign's Standard and Business Pro plans come with 100 envelopes per user per year. DocuSign sells AES and QES as add-ons, QES from €10 per recipient; Dropbox Sign reserves them for an eID add-on on API Premium. Neither includes contract management in its signing plans: DocuSign sells it as separate IAM plans, and Dropbox Sign does not offer it.

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