Adobe Acrobat Sign vs Documenso
Adobe Acrobat Sign and Documenso are both e-signature software. Adobe Acrobat Sign is a commercial product from Adobe Inc. Documenso is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 16k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Adobe Acrobat Sign when
- An organisation already pays for Acrobat or Adobe enterprise licences and wants signing included.
- Pick Documenso when
- A business wants an open DocuSign alternative with an API it can embed in its own product.
Side by side
Adobe's e-signature service, built into Acrobat and integrated with Microsoft 365 and Salesforce.
A document signing platform with templates, signing workflows, audit logs and PAdES-compliant digital signatures, offered hosted or self-hosted.
Admin and pricing are bundled into Adobe's complex licensing.
Self-hosting requires your own signing certificate setup, and team and enterprise features are paid.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, React, Prisma and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Adobe Inc.
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
99 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
16k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v2.21.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.