Building the best
signing and PDF tools.
Penstead makes it easier and more delightful to work with documents on your devices.
Note from the founder.
I was trying to sign an agreement and got paywalled. It happened at the last step, after I’d done the work.
That is how the category works. Free tools stop before you’re finished. Signature tools assume the document is right. Penstead does both, you can configure and sign your documents in one place.
Better yet, it’s all free to start.
It’s new and small, but getting a little bit better every day. Follow along and see for yourself.
Proof, not a promise
Every completed request comes back with this attached: who signed, from where, at what minute, and the SHA-256 of the file before and after. Anyone holding a copy can hash it and compare — the check doesn’t depend on trusting us.
Certificate of Completion
- Document
- Mutual NDA.pdf
- Request ID
- 3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301
- Original SHA-256
- 9f2c4ab1e07d5f3c8b41d6e2a75c09fbb3e18d4a7c1e5b93d2064f8ac3517e6d
- Pages
- 4
- Created
- Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:41:02 GMT
Signers
Avery Chen
Email: avery@example.com · Status: signed · Signed: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:11:52 GMT
Audit trail
Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:04:11 GMT · VIEWED · Avery Chen
IP 31.4.12.90 · Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X)
Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:11:52 GMT · SIGNED · Avery Chen
IP 31.4.12.90 · Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X)
Where your document goes
In your browser
Editing, merging, splitting, organising, cropping, compressing, OCR, redaction, form filling, signing. The bytes never leave the tab.
On our servers
Office conversion and signature requests — the two we charge for, and the only two where a file has to reach us at all.
What you can count on
Not testimonials. Each line is either enforced by code you can observe from outside, or written down somewhere binding.
Always
- No account needed to edit
- 5 signature requests a month, free
- Signers never make an account either
- Signing links expire on their own
- Signing tokens encrypted at rest
- A status page hosted off our own infrastructure
Never
- Sell, mine, or train on your documents
- An account wall on the free tools
- A price you discover at the last step
- A claim on this site that isn’t true on the server
- Cancelling by email instead of by button
Sources: privacy · pricing · audit trail · status · terms
Penstead is not a law firm and none of this is legal advice.
Reaching a person
hello@penstead.com reaches the person who builds this.