E-signature tools send documents for signing online and keep an audit trail of who signed and when. The EU's eIDAS regulation defines three levels: simple, advanced and qualified, and only a qualified signature counts as handwritten in every member state. European vendors usually keep documents in Europe, and many offer qualified signatures through national eIDs. The strongest European options are Youtrust (formerly Yousign) (France) for small and mid-sized teams in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scrive (Sweden) for Nordic companies that sign with BankID and other eIDs and Skribble (Switzerland) for teams that regularly need qualified signatures.
Best first. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.
| Alternative | Headquarters | Founded | Employees | G2 rating | Free plan | Paid plans from | Your data | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Youtrust (formerly Yousign) | Caen, France | — | — | 4.3 (99 reviews) | Yes | €9/month | In Europe | No |
2 Scrive | Stockholm, Sweden | 2010 | 223 | 4.5 (197 reviews) | No | €21/user/month | In Europe | No |
3 Skribble | Zurich, Switzerland | 2018 | — | 4.4 (23 reviews) | No | €23/user/month | In Europe | No |
4 Oneflow | Stockholm, Sweden | 2012 | 108 | 4.4 (372 reviews) | No | — | In Europe | No |
5 Signaturit | Barcelona, Spain | — | — | 4.5 (36 reviews) | No | €9/month | — | No |
6 Penneo | Copenhagen, Denmark | 2014 | 51–200 | — | No | DKK 899/month | In Europe | No |
7 Dokobit | Vilnius, Lithuania | 2013 | 11–50 | — | Yes | €8/user/month | In Europe | No |
8 Legalesign | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2012 | 11–50 | 4.8 (297 reviews) | No | £10/month | — | No |
9 sproof | Puch bei Hallein, Austria | — | — | — | No | €15/month | In Europe | No |
10 inSign | Marzling, Germany | 2022 | — | — | No | €24.90/user/month | In Europe | No |
11 FP Sign | Berlin, Germany | — | — | — | No | €24/user/month | In Europe | No |
12 Namirial | Senigallia, Italy | 2000 | — | 3.0 (7 reviews) | No | — | — | No |
13 Evrotrust | Sofia, Bulgaria | 2015 | — | 4.9 (22 reviews) | Yes | €2.75/month | — | No |
14 Certifaction | Zurich, Switzerland | 2020 | — | — | No | — | In Europe | No |
Each page ranks the European options for that tool's users and says how each one compares.
E-signatures and ID checks for European businesses
French e-signature service that renamed itself from Yousign to Youtrust in 2026. Offers simple, advanced and qualified signatures, plus identity, company and bank-account checks.
E-signing and national eID checks for regulated firms
Swedish e-signature and identification platform used by finance, telecom and other regulated companies. Signers can use national eIDs such as BankID, and Scrive is itself a qualified trust service provider offering QES.
Swiss e-signing with qualified signatures in every plan
Swiss e-signature service for EU and Swiss law. Paid plans include simple, advanced and qualified signatures (QES), and data is stored in Switzerland and Germany.
Contract platform with built-in e-signing
Swedish contract tool where teams draft, negotiate, sign and track contracts in the browser. National eID signing and a qualified e-seal are paid add-ons. Listed on Nasdaq First North.
E-signatures, certified email and ID checks
Spanish e-signature, certified delivery and identity platform. Since 2025 part of Italy's Namirial group, which also owns Universign and Validated ID and runs four qualified trust service providers.
Signing and document collection for accountants and auditors
Danish e-signature and data-collection service built around audit and accounting work such as annual reports. Penneo is on the EU Trusted List as a qualified trust service provider and offers QES via MitID.
E-signing with Baltic and Nordic eIDs
Lithuanian e-signature portal and API, owned by Norway's Signicat since 2021. Supports national eIDs and qualified signatures paid per signature, with a free plan for occasional signers.
Low-cost e-signing for UK small businesses
British e-signature service with forms, bulk sending and an API. Plans start at £10 a month; the Solo Pro and Team plans add advanced and qualified signatures.
Austrian e-signing with qualified signatures included
Austrian e-signature and identification service with offices in Salzburg and Vienna. Plans include a yearly allowance of qualified signatures, and the service is hosted in Europe.
German-hosted e-signatures with no US providers
German e-signature service run on servers in Germany with only German service providers. Supports simple, advanced and qualified signatures. Spun off in 2022 and owned by Swiss software firm BSI.
German cloud e-signing with advanced and qualified signatures
E-signature service from Berlin's FP Digital Business Solutions, hosted in BSI-certified German data centres. Offers advanced signatures in its plans and qualified signatures billed per use.
Enterprise trust services and e-signatures
Italian qualified trust service provider since 2010, selling the eSignAnyWhere signing platform, digital certificates and identity services. Can run as shared SaaS, private SaaS or on-premises.
Qualified signatures and eID from a phone app
Bulgarian qualified trust service provider whose mobile app issues a QES certificate after remote ID checks. Free personal plan with three signatures; businesses buy usage packages or use the API.
Privacy-first Swiss e-signing
Swiss e-signature service that offers simple to qualified signatures under Swiss and EU law, with documents stored in Switzerland or an EU country. Unlimited users on every plan.
LeadWave's database has 21 companies headquartered in Europe that our E-Signature list matches, most of them in Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Finland (2), France (2) and Germany (2). Here are the 15 largest; all 21, with their CEOs' contacts, are in the Europe SaaS companies list.
| Company | Country | Employees | Funding | CEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Scrivescrive.com | Sweden | 223 | $2M | Viktor Wrede |
2 Yousignyousign.com | France | 194 | $40.8M | Alban Sayag |
3 Tecalistecalis.com | Spain | 51–200 | — | Isidoro Martínez |
| 4Oneflowoneflow.com | Sweden | 108 | $5.6M | Anders Hamnes |
5 Validated IDvalidatedid.com | Spain | 52 | $2.6M | Santi Casas |
6 PXL Visionpxl-vision.com | Switzerland | 42 | $4.8M | Michael Born |
7 wiwinkwiwink.com | Spain | 11–50 | $461.1K | Ricardo Chicheri |
8 CARLAVIAcarlavia.com | Switzerland | 11–50 | — | Jaroslav Kacina |
9 cDs Globalcdsglobal.com | France | 11–50 | — | Jérôme Maréchaux |
10 Documilldocumill.com | Finland | 11–50 | — | Pasi N. |
| 11Dokobitdokobit.com | Lithuania | 11–50 | — | Gintas Balčiūnas |
| 12Legalesignlegalesign.com | United Kingdom | 11–50 | — | Ben E. |
13 Certifactioncertifaction.io | Switzerland | 15 | $1.2M | Benoit Henry |
14 INHUBBERinhubber.com | Germany | 14 | $955.4K | Elena Mechik |
15 ContractZencontractzen.com | Finland | 12 | $1.2M | Markus Mikola |
Showing the 15 largest of 21. Headcount is the latest known figure.
A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.
Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. The order weighs how fully each one replaces the US leaders, its track record and its ratings. No company paid to be listed or ranked.
Youtrust (formerly Yousign) (France) for small and mid-sized teams in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scrive (Sweden) for Nordic companies that sign with BankID and other eIDs and Skribble (Switzerland) for teams that regularly need qualified signatures. Each is headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
Youtrust (formerly Yousign), Dokobit and Evrotrust have a free plan with no time limit.
Youtrust (formerly Yousign), Scrive, Skribble, Oneflow, Penneo, Dokobit, sproof, inSign, FP Sign and Certifaction store customer data in Europe by default. Being European doesn't make a tool GDPR compliant on its own: check its data processing agreement too.
LeadWave's database lists 21 European E-Signature software companies, most of them in Spain (3) and Switzerland (3). All of them, with their CEOs' contacts, are in our list of 4,000+ European SaaS companies.
Under eIDAS it is an advanced electronic signature made with a qualified signature device and based on a qualified certificate. It has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature in all EU member states.
Most business contracts can be signed with a simple or advanced e-signature. A QES is needed where a law asks for written form, and which documents that covers differs by country.
The European Commission publishes the EU Trusted List, which names every qualified trust service provider by country. Scrive, Penneo, Namirial and Evrotrust, for example, say they are on it.
