Self-hosted e-signatures. First document free, then $149 once for unlimited envelopes.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is DocuSign, at $10/mo — roughly $120 a year, every year. Inkseal does the job for a one-time $149 — running on infrastructure you control.
Render any PDF with pdf.js, drop signature / initials / date / text fields, assign each to a color-coded signer, mark required or optional.
For freelancers, drag-and-drop fields pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $149, not metered per month.
Signer 2's link only activates after signer 1 finishes — or send to everyone at once.
For freelancers, sequential or parallel routing pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $149, not metered per month.
Signers open a unique link, see their fields highlighted, draw or type a signature, and must check "I agree to sign electronically" before finishing.
For freelancers, real signing experience pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $149, not metered per month.
Install Inkseal and run one envelope end to end — upload, place fields, send, collect every signature, download the final PDF. No card, no time limit.
When you create a second envelope, enter a license key from Whop — one payment, unlimited documents forever. No subscription, no per-envelope billing.
Desktop mode is zero-config and offline-friendly. Need signers to open links from anywhere? docker compose up on a $5 VPS — same code, same database.
Inkseal is $149, once. DocuSign at $10/mo — roughly $120 a year, every year. Fifteen months of DocuSign Personal pays for Inkseal outright — and removes the envelope cap entirely. Everything after that is free, forever. And your first document costs nothing at all.
Fifteen months of DocuSign Personal pays for Inkseal outright — and removes the envelope cap entirely. Everything after that is free, forever. And your first document costs nothing at all. Inkseal costs $149 once; DocuSign charges $10/mo — about $120 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Every install can create and fully complete one envelope free — send it, collect all signatures, download the flattened PDF with its certificate page. Creating a second envelope asks for a $149 lifetime license key (sold on Whop). One payment, unlimited documents forever.
Yes — the full source is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/inkseal-mvp and always will be. The $149 buys the license key plus the signed Windows installer, 1-click setup and updates instead of running git clone yourself.