Signature PDF
Sign and manipulate PDFs with collaboration, organization, compression and metadata editing.
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Still maintained? Yes: 5 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.11.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Document Management: Paperless Cloud alternatives, Adobe Acrobat alternatives, SharePoint alternatives, DocuSign alternatives.
At a glance
Signature PDF quick facts
- Health score
- 63/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 832
- Last commit
- 8 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.11.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Free web software for signing (alone or with others), organizing (merge, sort, rotate, delete, extract pages, ...), editing metadatas or compressing PDFs."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Signature PDF scores 63/100, #13 of 17 in Document Management: 5 commits in the last 90 days earn 5.8 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.11.0, 8 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 832 stars add 11.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 29.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 5.8 / 35
5 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.11.0 released 8 days ago
- Stars 11.7 / 20
832 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 5
- Last 90 days
- 116
- Last 12 months
- 8 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 17 tools in Document Management by health , between Docspell (#12) and I, Librarian (#14) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP, deb, Docker |
| Latest release | v1.11.0 · 8 days ago |
| Stars | 832 |
| Open issues | 60 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | 24eme/signaturepdf ↗ |
Signature PDF vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Signature PDF (Document Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling-PDF | 100 | 95k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| BentoPDF | 97 | 16k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Docuseal | 97 | 19k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| SimpleDMS | 89 | 170 | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Signature PDF (this tool) | 63 | 832 | AGPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
Signature PDF: common questions
Is Signature PDF still maintained?
Signature PDF had 5 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 8 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.11.0, is from 8 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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