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5 self-hosted BoldSign alternatives

BoldSign is a cloud-based electronic signature service for sending, signing, and managing legally binding documents. It provides templates, audit trails, APIs/SDKs, workflow automation, signer verification, and compliance features for embedding e-signing.

Alternatives to BoldSign

Self-hostable DocuSign alternative to create fillable forms and collect legally binding eSignatures with API and webhooks.

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18.1k stars1.8k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source e-signature platform for creating, sending, embedding, and automating legally compliant digital signatures with API and developer tooling.

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14.2k stars3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source platform for guided web interviews that collect user input, run logic, and generate documents (PDF, DOCX, RTF) or integrate with external services via APIs.

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973 stars306 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted web app for signing PDFs (single or multi-signer), organizing pages (merge/rotate/extract), editing PDF metadata, and compressing files.

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816 stars108 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Ackify provides Ed25519-based proof-of-read for documents with immutable audit trails, OAuth2/MagicLink authentication, embeddable widgets and an admin dashboard.

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205 stars6 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing BoldSign actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 5 of 5 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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