Last updated: January 15, 2026
Welcome to Email Signature Maker, your trusted free online tool for creating professional digital signatures quickly and easily.
We believe signature creation should be simple, fast, and accessible to everyone.
At Email Signature Maker, our mission is to provide a free, privacy-focused tool that empowers individuals and businesses to create professional digital signatures without complexity or cost.
We understand that in today's digital world, signatures are essential for documents, contracts, emails, and countless other applications. That's why we've built a tool that makes signature creation accessible to everyone, regardless of technical skill or budget.
Email Signature Maker is a browser-based signature generation tool that offers three convenient methods for creating professional digital signatures:
Use your mouse, trackpad, or touchscreen to draw your signature naturally, just like pen and paper.
Choose from a collection of professional signature fonts and type your name for an instant signature.
Already have a signature image? Upload it and we'll process it into a clean digital format.
All processing happens directly in your web browser using JavaScript. This means your signature data never leaves your device, and we have no access to it. You maintain complete control and privacy.
In a market filled with complicated signature tools that require accounts, subscriptions, or compromise your privacy, we offer a refreshingly simple alternative:
Email Signature Maker was born in 2019 from a simple frustration experienced by our founder, a freelance web developer based in Manchester, UK. After spending over 15 years building enterprise communication systems and digital workflow tools for businesses across Europe, he found himself needing to quickly sign a PDF document while working remotely. The experience was eye-opening and frustrating.
The options available were either prohibitively expensive subscription services charging £10-20 per month, required creating yet another account with personal information, or worse, required uploading sensitive signature data to servers with questionable privacy policies. For something that should take seconds, the process was complicated, intrusive, and expensive.
Drawing on years of experience developing browser-based applications and a deep understanding of client-side processing technologies, our founder spent a weekend building the first version of Email Signature Maker. The goal was simple: create a tool that respects user privacy, costs nothing, and works instantly without barriers.
What started as a personal solution quickly resonated with others. Within the first month, thousands of people discovered the tool through word-of-mouth and organic search. The overwhelmingly positive feedback confirmed what we suspected: people wanted a straightforward, trustworthy alternative to the bloated, expensive solutions dominating the market.
Today, Email Signature Maker has helped millions of people create professional signatures for documents, emails, and digital communications. We've remained true to our founding principles: completely free, genuinely private, and refreshingly simple.
Email Signature Maker is developed and maintained by a small team of experienced web developers and digital communication specialists based in the United Kingdom. Our collective expertise spans over 30 years in building secure, user-focused web applications.
15+ years building scalable, secure web applications for businesses ranging from startups to FTSE 250 companies.
Extensive experience implementing GDPR-compliant solutions, client-side encryption, and privacy-first architectures.
Specialized knowledge in email systems, document workflows, and digital signature technologies used by professionals worldwide.
Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, ensuring tools are intuitive and accessible to all skill levels.
Our team has worked on a diverse range of digital communication projects, including enterprise email signature management systems for multinational corporations, document workflow automation for legal and financial services firms, and secure digital signing platforms for healthcare providers. This extensive background in professional communication tools directly informs our approach to Email Signature Maker.
We understand the critical importance of signatures in professional contexts. Whether it's a freelancer signing a contract, a small business owner approving an invoice, or a professional adding a personal touch to emails, signatures carry legal weight and professional identity. That's why we've built a tool that treats your signature data with the respect and security it deserves.
After years of building complex enterprise software, we noticed a troubling pattern in the digital tools market. Simple, everyday tasks were being gatekept behind expensive subscriptions, unnecessary account registrations, and privacy-compromising data collection. The signature creation space exemplified this problem perfectly.
Exploitative Pricing Models
Many signature tools charged £10-25 per month for a task that takes seconds. This pricing was designed to extract maximum revenue, not provide fair value.
Privacy Violations
Competing services required uploading your signature to their servers, creating permanent digital records of your personal signature that could be breached, sold, or misused.
Artificial Barriers
Mandatory account creation, email verification, and personal data collection created unnecessary friction for what should be a simple, immediate task.
Feature Bloat
Tools became unnecessarily complex, burying simple signature creation under layers of enterprise features most users never needed.
We believed there was a better way. Drawing on our technical expertise in browser-based processing and our commitment to user privacy, we built Email Signature Maker as a direct response to these problems. Every design decision reflects our core principles: respect user privacy, provide genuine value for free, and keep the experience simple and fast.
Our technical implementation ensures that your signature never leaves your device. Using modern HTML5 Canvas APIs and client-side JavaScript, all signature generation, styling, and export happens entirely in your web browser. This isn't marketing language or a theoretical privacy promise. It's the fundamental technical architecture of how the tool works. We literally cannot access your signature data because it never reaches our servers.
Email Signature Maker represents our vision for what digital tools should be: powerful yet simple, professional yet accessible, and privacy-respecting by design, not by afterthought.
Through years of working with businesses and individual professionals, we've learned that digital signatures are more than just images on documents. They represent personal brand, professional credibility, and legal validation. Our tool is specifically designed to meet the real-world needs of working professionals.
Since launching in 2019, Email Signature Maker has served millions of users across 150+ countries. Our users report saving an average of £120 per year compared to paid alternatives, while gaining the peace of mind that comes with true privacy protection. For many freelancers and small businesses, these savings represent a meaningful reduction in operational costs.
More importantly, we've helped democratize access to professional digital signature tools. Whether you're a student in India signing your first internship agreement, a freelancer in Brazil closing a client deal, or a small business owner in the UK approving invoices, you deserve access to professional tools without financial barriers or privacy compromises.
We understand that signatures are sensitive. Here's why you can trust Email Signature Maker:
Every signature you create is processed entirely in your web browser using JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded to our servers. You can even disconnect from the internet after the page loads and still create signatures.
Our website uses HTTPS encryption to protect your connection and ensure secure communication between your browser and our servers.
We don't maintain databases of user information or signatures. There's nothing to hack, leak, or compromise because we don't store your data.
Our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Cookie Policy are written in plain English and explain exactly how our service works and what data (if any) is collected.
People use Email Signature Maker for a variety of purposes:
Whether you're a freelancer, small business owner, student, or anyone who needs a quick and professional signature, our tool is designed to meet your needs.
We are committed to:
We love hearing from our users. Whether you have questions, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hello, feel free to reach out.
Email Signature Maker
Email: contact@emailsignaturemaker.co.uk
Website: emailsignaturemaker.co.uk
We aim to respond to all inquiries within 2-3 business days.
For common questions, please check our FAQ page which covers most topics and questions users have about our service.