✍️ Contractly
Sixteen plain-language contract templates you fill in and own.
Contractly at a glance
| Price | $29, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | PandaDoc at $19+/user/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Finance & Admin |
Contractly features
📚 16 bundled templates
NDAs, freelance and consulting agreements, retainers, SOWs, releases and more across 6 categories.
🔤 Fill-in-the-blanks variables
Placeholders become a form panel — type once and the document updates live with a filled/blank progress counter.
✍️ Edit the contract body
A rich-text editor for bold, italic, headings and lists lets you customize clauses and insert your own variables anywhere.
💾 Save your own templates
Your edited NDA becomes your NDA for every future client.
🔁 Clone for the next client
Reuse a finished contract as the base for the next deal, with fields kept independent.
🖨️ Clean PDF export
Headless Chromium print on Letter with 1-inch margins and serif type; unfilled blanks export as underscores so nothing sneaks through half-merged.
🖊️ E-signature handoff
Export merged HTML and open it in Inkseal, our pay-once signing tool, rather than rebuilding signing.
🔒 100% local
One human-readable JSON file in your user-data folder — no account, no cloud, no telemetry.
$29 once — that's the whole pricing page
PandaDoc charges $19+/user/mo — roughly $228 a year, every year. Contractly is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Contractly inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Contractly guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Contractly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/contract-templates-mvp. The $29 buys the signed Windows installer; building from source is free.
Does my contract data leave my machine?
No. Contractly is 100% local — everything lives in one human-readable JSON file in your user-data folder, with no account, cloud or telemetry.
Is this legal advice?
No. The templates are general-purpose starting points and laws differ by state and country — have a qualified attorney review anything important. For a funding round or high-stakes deal, pay the lawyer.