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Alternatives to signNow

signNow is airSlate’s e-signature product: an emailed signing invite, a password, SMS code or phone call when the sender requires one, and a document history that records every action with names, email addresses, IP addresses and timestamps under a unique document ID, sold with unlimited users and paid per signature invite. ZOREAL Sign is a surface in the ZOREAL dashboard for preparing a signature dossier, sending it through its recipients and recording every step in an append-only event log that is sealed, attested by ZOREAL and timestamped by a public authority. This page sets the two side by side on identity binding, evidence, pricing, integration and certifications.

Information last reviewed 10 September 2026. Compared: the signNow signing workflow, signer authentication, document history and API, as airSlate’s public pages describe them, against ZOREAL Sign; airSlate WorkFlow, pdfFiller, DocHub, the payments feature and the airSlate Business Cloud bundle are out of scope, and signNow’s plan prices are quoted only as its homepage prints them because the pricing application rendered no text.

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Where ZOREAL Sign and signNow differ

  • Layers of signature

    ZOREAL Sign offers several layers of signature: AES for standard business-to-business contracts, everyday business agreements and non-disclosure agreements, and QES for high-stakes cross-border transactions, regulated corporate and government use, real-estate deeds and formal government filings.

  • Per invite against per user

    signNow states “Unlimited users at no additional cost” and “Pay per eSignature invite sent”, with its Enterprise plan from $30 per month on its homepage and API invites from $2 each for 500 on its developers page (September 2026). ZOREAL Sign charges per user: Free for 3 dossiers a month; unlimited dossiers on Premium; 3 dossiers sent per month, unlimited signing of your own documents, and signing a document you receive is always free.

  • A history against an attested bundle

    signNow’s public pages describe a document history with full names, email addresses, IP addresses and timestamps under a unique document ID; a seal on the completed PDF or a certificate of completion document is not described. ZOREAL Sign ships an evidence bundle: each burned PDF with the bundle hash on every page, the audit-trail PDF, the event log and a detached attestation signed ES256 plus ML-DSA-65 with an RFC 3161 timestamp from a public authority, verifiable offline from the bundle and two pinned roots.

  • Who the record names

    signNow lets a sender require a password, an SMS code or a phone call before a signer can act, and its history records the signer’s name, email address and IP address. ZOREAL Sign binds each signature to a legal entity by possession of the invited mailbox, or a ZOREAL account signed in under the invited address, plus the adopted name the person typed, with actor, IP address, user agent and both clocks on every event.

Side by side

Feature and pricing comparison between ZOREAL Sign and airSlate SignNow, based on public materials reviewed on 10 and 11 September 2026.

AttributeZOREAL SignsignNow
CryptographyZOREAL Sign uses post-quantum certificate chains and encryption. Every event (viewed, email confirmed, adopted, signed, approved) is a row with actor, IP address, user agent and both clocks, hash-chained to the previous one, with the original documents’ digests as leaves and a root sealed at Send. When the log closes, the completed PDF is rendered once and stored with its SHA-256, the bundle hash is stamped on every page, and ZOREAL signs a detached attestation (a compact JWS, ES256 plus ML-DSA-65 under the two Document Signing CAs, KMS custody in production) over the bundle hash, the documents’ digests and the stored PDF’s digest, with an RFC 3161 timestamp from a public authority over the ES256 signature. The attestation is verified on every audit-trail print.A unique ID per document, “Be sure of your document’s authenticity with a unique ID for each document” (features page), and under its 21 CFR Part 11 description “e-signature timestamps, digital certifications, document history retention” (security page). A vendor PKI seal on the completed PDF or a certificate of completion document is not stated in the public materials we reviewed (security, features and trust pages). No post-quantum statement appears on the pages read.
Signer identity, defaultA legal entity per signer, one per email address, born with a P-256 key. A signature is bound to that legal entity by possession of the invited mailbox, or a ZOREAL account signed in under the invited address, plus the adopted name the person typed. The emailed link connects the signing session to the invited mailbox, and the email confirmation is itself an event in the log.An emailed signing invite. “The document creator can add an extra layer of protection” by requiring a signer to enter a password or “authenticate their identity via a text message or phone call” (security page); price and plan for these are not stated on the pages read. Government-ID, knowledge-based or eID verification is not stated in the public materials we reviewed (security and features pages).
Signature levelsZOREAL Sign offers several layers of signature: AES for standard business-to-business contracts, everyday business agreements and non-disclosure agreements, and QES for high-stakes cross-border transactions, regulated corporate and government use, real-estate deeds and formal government filings.“Legally-binding eSignature” as a section heading and “Get legally-binding eSignatures now!” as a call to action (homepage, legality hub). Its US legality page states that the default signature “would qualify as an ‘electronic signature’ under both ESIGN and UETA” and that the page is not legal advice; its security page states “airSlate SignNow complies with the eIDAS”. No AES or QES tier is named on the pages read.
Trust behind the top levelZOREAL’s QES has the highest trust in the market, because it requires a government-linked physical ID biologically linked to the person signing.A password, an SMS code or a phone call, when the sender turns it on (security page). No government-ID, knowledge-based or electronic-ID method is stated in the public materials we reviewed.
Evidence producedAn append-only, hash-chained event log; the completed PDF stored once with its SHA-256 and the bundle hash on every page; a detached ES256 plus ML-DSA-65 attestation with an RFC 3161 timestamp; an audit-trail PDF; verifiable offline from two pinned roots. The evidence bundle zip holds each burned PDF, Audit trail.pdf, Events.json and Attestation.json, and the attestation is verified on every audit-trail print.A “detailed document history” showing all document activities and who performed them, “including full names, email and IP addresses, and time stamps” (security page), under a unique document ID; “document history retention” with no period stated.
PricingFree: 3 dossiers sent per month; "Sign your own and received documents for free." Premium: unlimited dossiers sent, private template collections, fillable PDF import. Both plans: 20 documents per dossier ("Up to 64 MB and 100 pages per document"), signer, approver and copy roles, signing order and reminders, the field editor, the public template library, "Typed, drawn and phone QR signatures", "Audit trail, timestamps and evidence bundle", "Signed PDF and completion email". Listed as "Coming soon": signer-key signing with ZOREAL ID (Premium), ID document check before signing (metered per check), SMS step-up verification ("Ask about pricing"), bulk sending, Sign API and dossier webhooks, embedded signing, signing on behalf of a company. Premium is priced per user, monthly or yearly, with two months free on yearly billing; every organization member is a paid Premium seat; metered usage is charged separately. Enterprise: contact us. Signing a document you receive is always free. Current prices are on the ZOREAL price list at zoreal.com/pricing.“Unlimited users at no additional cost” and “Pay per eSignature invite sent” (homepage). The homepage comparison table shows Business Premium as “($15)” with no unit or billing period printed, and states “Enterprise plan for airSlate SignNow starts at $30 per month”; the pricing page redirects to an application that rendered no plan text on 10 and 11 September 2026. A 7-day free trial of Business Premium; refunds within 30 days of the invoice.
API and integrationsIn the browser, from the ZOREAL dashboard: the editor, the details page, documents by status and templates. An invited recipient opens their own signing link from the email and acts without creating an account; the link connects the signing session to the invited mailbox, and a matching signed-in account is the other way in. Copy recipients receive the finished copy when the dossier is completed.API “Paid plans start at $2 per invite for 500 invites” and “drop to $1.20 per invite for 5,000 invites” (developers page), with a free sandbox and “250 free signature invites”; “21 out-of-the-box integrations” (trust centre), the features page naming Salesforce, Google Workspace, NetSuite and Gmail among them; mobile apps.
Data handling and retentionWhat a signer enters is saved as they go, locked when they finish and snapshotted onto the audit event. The completed PDF is rendered once when the log closes and stored with its SHA-256. The dossier and its media are retained; a completed dossier is evidence and cannot be destroyed, because its attestation restricts destroy at the model (it is archived instead). The audit trail records the IP address, user agent and both clocks of every event and is printed with the result of a verification run. A retention period is not stated on zoreal.com as of September 2026.“All data is encrypted using TLS 1.2/1.3” in transit and with “AES-256 bit encryption for storage and data at rest” (security page); “document history retention” is listed, with no retention period stated in the public materials we reviewed.
Certifications statedOrganization-level, as zoreal.com lists them for Bynn Intelligence, Inc.: SOC 2 (attestation), PCI DSS (SAQ A), GDPR (data protection), ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (information security certification) and CSA STAR Level One (cloud security self-assessment). No signature-scheme certification is claimed for Sign; nothing in the hierarchy is named a qualified signature or seal, and no Sign-specific certification is stated on zoreal.com as of September 2026.SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS, 21 CFR Part 11, GDPR and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, CCPA, and an eIDAS compliance statement (security page). ISO 27001 is not stated on the page read.

Third-party details on this page reflect what each provider publicly stated on the review date shown above and may have changed since. Where a provider does not state something publicly, this page says so rather than assuming. Statements about what signNow offers reflect its public materials on the review date; absence of a feature from those materials does not mean it is unavailable. ZOREAL's current prices are on the ZOREAL price list.

Where ZOREAL Sign and signNow agree

Both attribute a signature to the holder of the invited mailbox by default: the invite goes out by email and the person who opens it is the person the record names. Both let the signer type, draw or upload a signature, send reminders, and route a document through more than one recipient.

Both keep an append-only history with the actor, the email address, the IP address and the time of every action. signNow’s security page lists full names, email and IP addresses and time stamps under a unique document ID; ZOREAL Sign records actor, IP address, user agent and both clocks on every event, hash-chained to the previous one. Neither, in the default product, describes a signature inside the PDF under a key the signer holds.

On both, a person who receives a document signs it without paying. Where the two part is the commercial model and what the evidence carries: signNow sells unlimited users and charges per invite, with an invite-priced API and a security page listing SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS and 21 CFR Part 11; ZOREAL Sign charges per user, and its bundle carries a detached attestation and a public-authority timestamp that verify offline.

ZOREAL Sign may fit you if

  • You want a per-user plan with a free tier: Free for 3 dossiers a month; unlimited dossiers on Premium; 3 dossiers sent per month, unlimited signing of your own documents, and signing a document you receive is always free.
  • You want the completion record itself signed and timestamped: a detached attestation under two ZOREAL Document Signing CAs with an RFC 3161 timestamp from a public authority.
  • You want to verify a completed dossier offline from the bundle and two pinned roots, without a request to the vendor.
  • ZOREAL Sign is the most secure signature solution out there.

signNow may fit you if

  • You want unlimited users on one subscription and would rather pay per signature invite sent than per seat.
  • You build on an API today and want per-invite pricing from $2 for 500 invites with a free sandbox of 250 invites.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS or 21 CFR Part 11 statements on the vendor’s security page.
  • You already run airSlate WorkFlow, pdfFiller or DocHub and want signing in the same suite.

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Common questions

How we compared

This comparison is based on publicly available information from signNow’s official website, documentation, pricing and published materials, and on ZOREAL’s own published product pages and pricing, as reviewed on 10 September 2026. Features, pricing and availability may change at any time. Verify current details directly with each provider before deciding.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. Which electronic signature method satisfies which law, what level of identity assurance a regulation requires, and whether a content signature or provenance mark meets a given standard all depend on the jurisdiction and the regulator’s guidance. ZOREAL Sign asserts no legal effect for the signatures it records. Confirm your obligations with qualified counsel before choosing a method.

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