Why free? Because renting a signature box month after month is silly.
I built SigFetch because sending a document for signature is a basic function, not something you should have to rent month after month. The job itself — put a signature box on a PDF, email a link, and preserve the evidence — has barely changed in a decade. The subscription prices have.
Most people don't send hundreds of contracts. They send a lease one month, a photo release four months later, and pay a subscription for every month in between. That's the part that bugged me.
So SigFetch is free for everyone. Not a free tier with a counter in the corner — the whole product, including the API, with no envelope limits, no card on file, and no upsell waiting when you hit Send.
What it costs to run
Less than you'd think. Sending a document is a few kilobytes of email and a PDF sitting in object storage. There is no sales team, no office, no ad budget, and no investors expecting the price to go up later.
The bill is hosting, storage, email delivery, and my time. That is small enough that donations from people the tool has helped can cover it, which is the entire business model. If SigFetch saves you a subscription, you can chip in. If it doesn't, use it anyway.
The honest version of “forever”
I run SigFetch on my own and I intend to keep it free. I'm not going to promise you a hundred years of uptime from a landing page. If the costs ever outrun what I can carry, you'll hear it from me with enough warning to get your documents out.
So download your completed PDFs and keep your own copies. Signing is the job here; long-term custody isn't. A signed file can still be checked at sigfetch.com/verify by anyone holding it, account or no account, even after the envelope here is gone.
The security page lists what SigFetch does and doesn't protect, in the same tone. No certification badges I haven't earned.
This isn't a limited free plan. It's the whole product.
Signing up takes about a minute, and there's no card to enter.