FairSign vs Adobe Acrobat
Acrobat is a genuinely powerful PDF editor. But if you signed up to sign documents, you are paying for a suite, and paying to leave it. Adobe's "monthly" plan is an annual contract billed monthly: cancel after the first 14 days and Adobe charges an early termination fee of 50% of the remaining term.
FairSign does one job, signing and sending documents, at $12 a month, cancellable at any time for $0. Everything below about Adobe comes from Adobe's own subscription terms and pricing page.
No account needed for self-signing. Your file never leaves your device.
Side by side
| FairSign | Adobe Acrobat | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12/mo · $120/yr | ≈$240/yr (Acrobat Standard) |
| Cancelling early | $0, anytime | Early termination fee (50% of remaining term) |
| Signing your own documents | Free forever, no account | Requires a paid plan |
| Where the file is processed | In your browser (self-signing) | Cloud |
| Money-back guarantee | 14 days, no questions | 14-day window, then the fee applies |
| Renewal reminder | Email 7 days before every charge | Not standard |
Sources: Adobe pricing page · Adobe subscription terms · Adobe subscription terms
Who should pick which
Keep Acrobat if you genuinely edit PDFs: redacting, OCR, combining, prepress. Nothing here replaces that, and we are not going to claim it does.
Switch to FairSign if the only reason Acrobat is on your card is signing. You will pay roughly half, you can leave whenever you like without a fee, and self-signing costs nothing at all.
The honest test: open your last three PDFs. If you signed them rather than edited them, you are paying an editor's price for a signer's job.