HelloSign vs signNow: Pricing and Features Compared (2026)

Dropbox Sign (the new name of HelloSign) is the better pick if you send often on your own: every paid plan includes unlimited signature requests, starting at $15 a month billed yearly, and its free plan covers 3 requests a month. signNow costs less to start ($8 a month billed yearly) and adds unlimited users, unlimited templates and mobile apps, but an annual plan includes up to 100 signature invites a year, and signNow bills every extra invite. If you only send a few documents and want no subscription at all, SignQuick charges $2.99 per document.

Quick verdict

• Pick Dropbox Sign if you are one person or a small team sending documents every week. The price stays the same however many requests you send. If you send 3 documents a month or fewer, the free plan may be all you need.
• Pick signNow if several people need to send from one account, if you rely on lots of templates, or if you want bulk send on a cheaper plan. Watch the invite allowance: it works well for occasional senders and gets expensive for heavy ones.
• Consider SignQuick if you send more than Dropbox Sign's free plan allows but not enough to justify a subscription, and your documents are simple PDFs with up to 3 signers.

Dropbox Sign vs signNow vs SignQuick at a glance

Prices are as of October 2026, in US dollars before tax, as each vendor's pricing page shows them. Both vendors show local currency in some countries (details below).

Pricing in detail

Dropbox Sign (HelloSign) pricing

HelloSign is now called Dropbox Sign. The plans:

• Free: 3 signature requests a month.
• Essentials (1 user): $20 a month billed monthly, or $180 a year billed yearly (shown as $15 a month). Includes 5 templates.
• Standard (2 users minimum, priced per user): $30 per user a month billed monthly, or $25 per user a month billed yearly, which starts at $600 a year for two seats. Includes 15 templates, bulk send, branding and team features.
• Premium (5 users or more): custom quote. Adds unlimited templates, single sign-on, data residency and advanced reporting.

Every paid plan includes unlimited signature requests. Essentials and Standard come with a 30-day free trial, and subscriptions renew automatically. From Europe, the same page shows euros: Essentials at €17.50 a month or €160 a year, Standard at €29 per user a month or €288 per user a year.

signNow pricing

signNow (made by airSlate) prices each plan per account, and every plan includes unlimited users at no extra cost. Its pricing page is testing plan names, so you may see the same tiers under different labels:

• Entry tier (Business, also shown as Starter): $8 a month billed annually ($96 a year), or $20 billed monthly.
• Middle tier (Business Premium, also shown as Professional): $15 a month billed annually, or $30 billed monthly.
• Upper tier (Enterprise, also shown as Business): $30 a month billed annually, or $50 billed monthly.
• High-volume plan (Site License, also shown as Enterprise): from $1.50 per signature invite, with volume discounts, through sales.

Visitors in Europe see the same figures in euros. The catch is the invite allowance. Annual plans include up to 100 signature invites per account per year, monthly plans up to 10 a month, and unused invites do not roll over. After that, signNow bills extra invites automatically: $0.96 each on Business, $1.80 on Business Premium and $3.60 on Enterprise, according to its help center. One invite covers one document sent, however many signers it has, but a canceled invite still counts.

signNow offers a 7-day free trial, and its FAQ says new customers can ask for a refund within 30 days of the invoice.

What it costs at your volume

Rough yearly cost from list prices, billed annually, before tax:

• 2 documents a month: Dropbox Sign free plan, $0. signNow entry tier, $96. SignQuick, 24 x $2.99 = $71.76, or Pro at $72.
• 6 documents a month: Dropbox Sign Essentials, $180. signNow entry tier, $96 (within the 100 invites). SignQuick Pro, $72.
• 20 documents a month: Dropbox Sign Essentials, $180. signNow entry tier, about $230 ($96 plus 140 extra invites at $0.96). SignQuick Pro, $72.

Features decide whether the cheaper option covers your work.

Free plans: what you actually get

Dropbox Sign has a real free plan. It includes 3 signature requests a month, renewing every 30 days from the day you sign up. Signing your own documents is unlimited and does not count toward the 3. Sending several documents to your signers in one bundle counts as a single request, and each completed request comes with the signed PDF and an audit trail.

signNow lists no free plan on its pricing page, only the 7-day trial. Developers also get a free API sandbox and 250 trial invites in production.

SignQuick has no free plan and no free trial either. If you send 3 documents a month or fewer and the Dropbox Sign free plan does what you need, it will cost you less than SignQuick.

Features that differ

Templates

This is the clearest gap. signNow includes unlimited templates on every plan, even the $8 tier. Dropbox Sign caps them: 5 on Essentials, 15 on Standard, unlimited only on Premium. Both let you turn a template into a link you can share for signing (signNow calls them signing links, from the middle tier up).

Bulk send and team features

Both reserve bulk send for higher plans: Standard on Dropbox Sign, the middle tier on signNow. For teams, the pricing models pull in opposite directions. Dropbox Sign charges per user, so five people on Standard cost five seats. signNow includes unlimited users, but they all draw from the same invite allowance.

Reminders, mobile and signing on the go

Both send automatic email reminders on their paid plans. signNow has iOS and Android apps on every plan, plus in-person signing, and kiosk mode from the middle tier. Dropbox's help center says the standalone Dropbox Sign mobile app stopped being available after September 26, 2024. Dropbox Sign still offers in-person signing on a mobile device from the Standard plan.

Integrations

Dropbox Sign's paid plans connect to Google Drive, Microsoft Word, HubSpot and more; Salesforce comes from Standard up as an add-on at extra cost. signNow includes cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive) and Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Chrome and Zapier on every plan, while Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot and Microsoft apps are a paid add-on.

Compliance and signature levels

Both list SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance; Dropbox Sign also lists ISO 27001. signNow offers US or EU data residency from the middle tier (Premium only on Dropbox Sign), with HIPAA (with a BAA) and 21 CFR Part 11 as paid add-ons. For EU signatures, signNow's comparison table lists simple electronic signatures on its subscription tiers and qualified signatures (QES) as a paid add-on on its high-volume plan. Dropbox Sign's features page also lists QES. Our guide to SES, AES and QES explains the levels. This is not legal advice.

API: Dropbox Sign API vs signNow API

Dropbox Sign API is sold separately from the web plans. Test mode is free. Paid API plans start at $900 a year for 50 signature requests a month (shown as $75 a month billed yearly), and the Standard API plan is $3,000 a year for 100 requests a month; Premium is quoted. Official SDKs cover Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Node.js and C#, and embedded signing lets people sign inside your own app.

signNow API has a free Dev Mode with unlimited test invites and a free trial with 250 invites in production. The Professional API plan is $146 a month billed annually for 1,000 signature invites a year, with other volumes from 500 to 5,000; Enterprise is quoted. It includes embedded signing and sending, and SDKs for Node.js, Python, PHP, Java and C#.

If you build a product that sends documents for signature, compare these two directly. SignQuick's Business plan has webhooks, an MCP server and a REST API, but the API is read-only: it reports on your documents rather than sending them from your app.

Who should pick which

• A freelancer sending a contract or two every week: Dropbox Sign Essentials, with unlimited requests for one user and a 30-day trial.
• A small agency where four people send around 100 documents a year: signNow's entry tier. One price, unlimited users, unlimited templates.
• HR onboarding many people with the same form: bulk send, on Dropbox Sign Standard or signNow's middle tier. Compare seat costs against invite costs.
• A team that needs EU data residency at a modest price: signNow's middle tier includes it; on Dropbox Sign it is a Premium feature.

More detail on each: SignQuick vs Dropbox Sign and SignQuick vs signNow.

If you only send a few documents a month

Both tools are built around subscriptions. If you send a lease this month, nothing next month and two contracts in the spring, SignQuick charges per document instead. Sending one PDF for signature costs $2.99 once, with up to 3 signers, no subscription. You need an account; your signers do not, and they never pay.

What you get: signers in a set order or all at once, an optional deadline, signature, initials, date and text fields (placed automatically on labels like "Signature:" or "Date"), an email reminder every two days to anyone who has not signed (three at most), the option for a signer to decline with a reason, and a tracking page that shows who opened and who signed. If you send more regularly, Pro is $9 a month or $72 a year for 25 documents a month, and it adds an audit certificate with the file's SHA-256 hash. All prices are on the pricing page.

What you do not get, plainly:

• No templates you save and reuse, and no bulk send from a spreadsheet.
• No integrations with other apps; webhooks and a read-only API come only with Business ($19 a month).
• One person per account, no team seats.
• Simple electronic signatures only, not advanced or qualified ones.
• PDF files only.

If any of those matter, Dropbox Sign or signNow is the better tool. We cover more options in our guide to HelloSign alternatives.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is HelloSign the same as Dropbox Sign?

Yes. HelloSign was renamed Dropbox Sign, and the HelloSign API became the Dropbox Sign API. Dropbox says existing sign-ins stayed the same, and the plans you find today under "HelloSign pricing" are Dropbox Sign's.

Does HelloSign (Dropbox Sign) have a free plan?

Yes. The free plan includes 3 signature requests a month, renewing every 30 days from your sign-up date, plus unlimited signing of your own documents. Bulk send needs the Standard or Premium plan.

Is signNow cheaper than HelloSign?

At the entry level, yes: $8 a month billed annually against $15 for Dropbox Sign Essentials. But signNow's annual plans include up to 100 signature invites a year and bill extras at $0.96 to $3.60 each, while Dropbox Sign's paid plans have no request limit. On list prices, signNow's entry tier costs more than Dropbox Sign Essentials ($180 a year) once you send more than about 190 documents a year, roughly 16 a month.

Does signNow limit how many documents I can send?

Annual plans include up to 100 signature invites per account per year and monthly plans up to 10 per month. You can keep sending past that, but each extra invite is billed automatically. Unused invites do not carry over to the next year.

Do signers need an account with Dropbox Sign or signNow?

No. Both say recipients can sign without creating an account, and Dropbox Sign says signers never pay anything. The same is true of SignQuick: signers open their link in the browser on a phone or computer.