# Skribble — E-Signature

Skribble by Skribble AG holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: UK / wider Europe; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Skribble AG (https://www.skribble.com)
- Category: [E-Signature](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): UK / wider Europe
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/skribble
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/skribble/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/skribble/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-20 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Skribble AG
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany and Switzerland [S14]
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Starting price: “Starter Für einzelne Signaturen und den Einstieg – rechtssicher, ganz ohne Abo. Ideal für Einzelunternehmen. ab € 0 ohne MwSt., 1 Nutzer” (vendor’s words) [S2]

## The panel's verdict

Skribble is an e-signature service from Skribble AG of Zurich, with Skribble Deutschland GmbH, offering simple, advanced and qualified signatures under ZertES and eIDAS. The bench scored it strongest on integration and API, at 5-6: an open REST API with immediately testable demo keys covers all three signature levels end to end, alongside connectors for Microsoft 365, Google Drive, SAP and Salesforce. Its weakest area is pricing transparency, scored at 2: the captured pages show the plan ladder — Individual, Team and Pro, one user on the entry plan, up to 20 on Team and Pro — but no price figures, and qualified signatures, seals, identification packages and the switching fee are each quoted separately. Evidence and retention scores 2-3, with no public information on an audit trail, completion certificate or retention periods. Sovereignty, at 3-4, is held back by unnamed identification partners and an unnamed qualified trust service provider, and the captured pages give different figures for hosting — Switzerland with ISO 27001, Germany, or either.

**Speaks for it:**
- Open REST API with immediately testable demo keys supports all three signature standards end to end.
- Prebuilt connectors for Microsoft 365, Google Drive, SAP and Salesforce, with signing directly from those systems.
- SES, AES and QES are each labelled with their identification method and an example document, with QES under both eIDAS and ZertES.
- External signers sign in the browser with no login and no app, including a QR-code entry.
- Simple signatures are unlimited in every plan, with a no-subscription pay-per-signature option and a free trial that requires no credit card.

**Held against it:**
- No price figures appear on the captured pages, so the cost of a qualified signature cannot be computed.
- We found no public information on an audit trail, completion certificate, timestamp source or retention periods.
- The qualified trust service provider behind the signatures and the identification partner are unnamed on the captured pages.
- The captured pages give different figures for hosting: Switzerland with ISO 27001, Germany, or either country.
- We found no public information on a subprocessor list, a data processing agreement or ownership.

**Best for:**
- You need to embed signing in your own application or sign from inside Microsoft 365, Google Drive, SAP or Salesforce.
- Your signers are external parties who should sign in a browser without creating an account.
- You need qualified electronic signatures under both Swiss and EU law from one product.
- You send mostly simple electronic signatures and want unlimited volume pooled across seats.

**Avoid if:**
- You must compute your total signing cost from published prices before committing.
- You need documented long-term evidence — an audit trail, completion certificate and retention periods — for records that must be provable years later.
- You need a named trust service chain and a subprocessor list for compliance sign-off.
- You need API or integration access on the entry plan, where it is listed as not available.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Legal Counsel | The HR Operations Lead | The Revenue Operations Lead | The Integration Engineer | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| eIDAS levels & trust services | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Signer identification | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Signing workflow & signer experience | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Evidence, validation & retention | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Integrations & API | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The Legal Counsel** (v1.0): Decides which contracts may be signed electronically and at which level. Wants SES, AdES and QES named per plan and country, the qualified trust service provider linked to the EU Trust List, and an audit trail with timestamps that still validates when the contract is disputed in eight years.
- **The HR Operations Lead** (v1.0): Sends two hundred employment contracts a year, many of them fixed-term and so under written form. Wants QES that a new hire can complete on a phone in ten minutes, identification that accepts the IDs applicants actually hold, bulk sending from templates, and a price per qualified signature known before the contract is signed.
- **The Revenue Operations Lead** (v1.0): Measures how long a quote takes to come back signed and where it stalls. Wants signing from inside the CRM, templates sales cannot break, reminders and signing order that run themselves, and a signer experience that needs no account, no app and no explanation.
- **The Integration Engineer** (v1.0): Embeds signing into the company's own portal and archives the result in the DMS. Wants a versioned API with webhooks and a sandbox, every signature level reachable through the API rather than only in the web app, and signed documents exported with their evidence intact.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Knows every signer who holds an ID card up to a camera hands biometric and identity data to a provider they never chose. Asks who performs the identification, where documents and ID data are stored, how long the audit trail keeps IP addresses, and who the subprocessors in the trust service chain are.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Knows "legally binding" usually means a simple signature. Reads for the level the default plan actually signs at, the QTSP the provider does not operate itself, the per-QES and ident fees on top of the plan, the envelope limit, and "eIDAS-compliant" from a provider that names no trust service at all.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Adv document: yes [S4]
- Aes256 encryption: yes [S14]
- Aes256 encryption: yes · yes [S15]
- Cookies: separate Cookie Policy · yes [S3]
- Data centers: Data protected in ISO-certified data centers [S8]
- DPA: yes · yes [S5]
- DPA available: yes [S14]
- Eidas qes: yes · yes · yes [S1]
- Frameworks: Schweizer DSG · EU-DSGVO [S3]
- GDPR: yes · Deutschland · Schweiz [S15]
- Hosting security: yes [S1]
- ISO 27001: yes [S14]
- ISO 27001: yes [S15]
- Partner standards: ZertES · eIDAS [S5]
- Penetration testing: Scale · yes [S14]
- Privacy policy: https://www.skribble.com/de/datenschutz/ [S5]
- Ssl encryption: Website skribble.com · yes [S3]
- SSO: yes · yes [S14]
- Standards supported: eIDAS · ZertES · Schriftform BGB [S15]
- Supervisory authority: Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖP) [S3]

**Data**
- Account deletion: Profileinstellungen · yes [S3]
- Switching fee: separately_quoted [S5]

**Hosting**
- Data centers: Schweiz · yes [S3]
- Partnership: Swisscom [S8]
- Region: Deutschland [S1]
- Regions: Germany · Switzerland [S14]
- Regions: Deutschland · Schweiz [S15]
- Swisscom partnership: yes [S14]

**Integrations**
- Alternatives: Positioned as DocuSign and AdobeSign alternative [S4]
- API: yes [S2]
- API documentation: yes [S14]
- Listed integrations: Microsoft 365 · Google Drive · SAP · Salesforce [S15]
- Named: Microsoft 365 · Google Drive [S1]
- Partner program: yes [S14]
- Partnership swisscom: Swisscom partnership mentioned [S4]
- Partnership swisscom: Swisscom Partnerschaft [S12]
- Prebuilt: Microsoft 365 · Google Drive · SAP · Salesforce · yes [S14]
- Rest API: open REST API · yes [S14]
- Signing from systems: yes [S8]
- SSO: OpenID Connect · trustID · yes [S3]

**Legal**
- Adv: ADV (Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag) link in footer [S12]
- Ag registry number: CH-020.3.045.842-4 · Handelsregister des Kantons Zürich [S4]
- Ag VAT number: CHE-397.613.998 [S4]
- Agb version: 2025.10.31 · yes [S5]
- Content responsible: Skribble responsible for website content per § 3 Abs. 1 UWG [S4]
- Copyright holder: All content rights belong exclusively to Skribble; written consent required for reproduction [S4]
- Documents: Privacy Policy · Terms of use · GTC · DPA · Cookies · Imprint [S6]
- Documents: Privacy Policy · Terms of use · GTC · DPA · Cookies · Imprint · yes [S8]
- Entities: Skribble AG, Talacker 21, 8001 Zürich, Schweiz · Skribble Deutschland GmbH, An der Raumfabrik 29, 76227 Karlsruhe, Deutschland [S3]
- Entities: Skribble AG · Talacker 21, 8001 Zürich, Schweiz · Skribble Deutschland GmbH · An der Raumfabrik 29, 76227 Karlsruhe, Deutschland [S5]
- Entity ag: Skribble AG · Talacker 21, CH-8001 Zürich [S4]
- Geolite acknowledgement: Product contains GeoLite2 data by MaxMind [S4]
- Gmbh entity: Skribble Deutschland GmbH · An der Raumfabrik 29, DE-76227 Karlsruhe [S4]
- Gmbh registry number: HRB 734477 · Amtsgericht Mannheim [S4]
- Gmbh VAT number: DE 326509705 [S4]
- Odr platform: EU online dispute resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr [S4]
- Reference usage: 2 · yes [S5]

**Pricing**
- API trial: demo key · yes [S14]
- Enterprise price: no · yes [S15]
- EU termination right: 2 · yes [S5]
- Free trial: yes · no [S4]
- Free trial: yes · no [S5]
- Free trial: no · yes [S7]
- Free trial repeat: no · yes [S1]
- Identification billing model: Charged only for successfully completed identifications [S9]
- Identification eidas: 50 · 15.5 [S9]
- Identification package validity: one year · individual quote · 50–200 identifications [S9]
- Identification zertes: 50 · 37 [S9]
- Invoice terms: 14 [S5]
- Late fee: 20 · 20 [S5]
- No credit card required: yes [S12]
- Payment methods: yes · yes [S5]
- Plan terms: yes · 1 · 12 [S5]
- Prepaid plans: in_advance [S5]
- Pro plan: user · Pro · annually · 6 [S14]
- Pro signatures: unlimited · 120 [S14]
- Pro signatures: unlimited · 120 [S15]
- Scale plan: Scale · on request [S14]
- Scale signatures: unlimited · individual capacities [S14]
- Scale signatures: unlimited · individual [S15]
- Starter free signatures: 2 SES [S14]
- Starter free tier: no [S15]
- Starter plan: Starter · pay per use · 0 [S14]
- Starter price: 0 · 1 · pay per e-signature, no subscription · yes [S2]
- Trial: Team · Pro · 14 [S2]
- Trial: free_trial · 14 · no [S8]
- VAT exclusive: yes [S5]
- Yearly toggle: 3 Monate gratis [S2]

**Product**
- Aatl conform: yes [S2]
- Account visibility: yes [S3]
- Addons: Einrichtung · Schulung · Single-Sign-On (SSO) · Company Branding [S5]
- Adobesign alternative: AdobeSign-Alternative [S12]
- Aes method: AES · mobile_number · rental agreement [S8]
- API plans: yes · yes · no [S15]
- Automatic reminder activation: everyone with a pending signature · yes [S11]
- Automatic reminders plans: Team · Pro · Scale · Business · Enterprise · yes [S10]
- Available languages: Deutsch · Englisch · Französisch · Italienisch [S4]
- Branding: yes [S14]
- Branding: yes [S15]
- Certified claim: Marketed as simple, certified, integrated, local [S4]
- Company size claim: over 4,000 [S14]
- Conversion claim: 50 [S7]
- Customer count: über 10'000+ Unternehmen im DACH-Raum [S1]
- Customer count: DACH · 10000 [S8]
- Customer count: 10000 [S12]
- Customer count: 4000 · EasyJet · Helvetia · Avis [S15]
- Demo key: yes [S15]
- Departments: IT-Abteilung · Geschäftsleitung · HR-Abteilung [S1]
- Docusign alternative: DocuSign-Alternative [S12]
- Dominant URL assignment: Skribble Deutschland · Skribble Schweiz [S5]
- Ees authentication: email_access_only · no [S5]
- Ees requirements: confirmed email address [S13]
- Ees unlimited: yes [S5]
- Express qes summary: Express QES enables contracts concluded digitally via express procedure with Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) [S7]
- Fes business option: yes · company email address [S13]
- Fes qes: yes · yes · yes [S3]
- Fes requirements: mobile number in profile (SMS code verification) [S13]
- Free trial: no · yes [S3]
- Free trial: yes · no [S6]
- Free trial: yes [S12]
- Free trial access: Free trial of Skribble offered [S4]
- Groupe mutuel case: Groupe Mutuel · 50 [S7]
- Guide download: free guide on which e-signature standard to use for which document [S12]
- Identification legal frameworks: Zertes (CH) · eIDAS (EU) · both [S9]
- Identification package types: Internal (account members), external (invited signers), or combined identification packages [S9]
- Identification purchase process: Purchase via contacting Skribble with: number of identifications, internal/external scope, legal framework (CH/EU), activation date [S9]
- Identification step: yes · yes [S7]
- Integrations plans: yes · yes · no [S15]
- Invitation delivery: email · link [S7]
- Languages: Deutsch · Englisch · Französisch · Italienisch [S1]
- Languages: de · en · fr · it [S2]
- Languages: Deutsch · Englisch · Französisch · Italienisch [S3]
- Languages: Deutsch · Englisch · Französisch · Italienisch [S5]
- Languages: English · German · French · Italian [S6]
- Languages: de · en · fr · it [S7]
- Languages: Deutsch · Englisch · Französisch · Italienisch [S12]
- Languages: German · English · French · Italian [S15]
- Legal compliance: ZertES · eIDAS [S8]
- Legal frameworks: eIDAS · ZertES · BGB written form [S14]
- Legal validity worldwide: yes · eIDAS · ZertES · UETA · ESIGN [S2]
- Manual reminders: 3 dots at top right, select Send reminder · yes [S11]
- Manual reminders all customers: 3-dot menu → Send reminder · email · yes · all customers [S10]
- Monitoring feature: yes [S15]
- No app no login: no · no · yes [S7]
- Onboarding: yes · yes [S1]
- Partner program: yes [S1]
- Partnership: Swisscom partnership [S6]
- Partnership pxl vision pax: PAX uses Skribble integrated with PXL Vision for fully digital insurance contract conclusion [S7]
- Partnerships: yes [S1]
- Penetration tests: Scale · yes [S15]
- Plans: Individual · Team · Pro [S5]
- Price change termination: yes · 14 [S5]
- Pro includes team: yes [S2]
- Qes fes authentication: yes [S5]
- Qes method: QES · ID scan plus selfie video · loan agreement [S8]
- Qes online identification: yes [S6]
- Qes onsite identification: yes [S6]
- Qes requirements: identity verification, then unlock in profile with matching mobile number [S13]
- Qes self identification: yes [S6]
- Qes unlock: QES freischalten [S12]
- Qes video identification: yes [S6]
- Qr code signing: Signer scans QR code from invitation to open contract [S7]
- Reminder count basis: signature invitation send date · yes [S10]
- Reminder email recipients: manual reminder email sent to everyone who still needs to sign [S11]
- Reminder intervals: admin · every 3 days · weekly · every 2 weeks [S10]

**Support**
- Customer happiness team: Customer Happiness Team supports with package selection, contract coordination, processing and onboarding [S9]
- Docs: documentation · demo keys · personal support [S15]
- Help center: Help-Center · Support kontaktieren · Status [S1]
- Help center: yes [S2]
- Help center: Help-Center · Support kontaktieren [S4]
- Help center: help_center · contact_support [S7]
- Help center: yes [S12]
- Languages: English · German · French · Italian [S8]
- Languages: English · German · French · Italian [S14]
- Local: yes · legal questions · technical implementation [S8]
- Monitoring: 24/7 [S14]
- Monitoring: 24/7 [S15]
- Partner program: yes [S4]
- Trial: yes · no [S15]

37 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/skribble

## Questions

### Is Skribble European?

Yes, though not from the EU. whats-best.ai classifies Skribble as UK / wider Europe.

### Where does Skribble store data?

The default storage location for customer data is not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026. The vendor’s pages mention Germany and Switzerland as hosting locations, per [the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/6729).

### Does Skribble have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Skribble?

As of 15 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Penneo (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/penneo), [Youtrust (Yousign) (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/youtrust) and [MOXIS (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/moxis) highest among the other 14 E-Signature products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Penneo](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/penneo) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Skribble alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/e-signature/skribble/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 19 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 14 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 13 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 integrations fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 support fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.skribble.com/de-de/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Pricing page: https://www.skribble.com/de-de/preise/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Privacy policy: https://www.skribble.com/de-de/datenschutz/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Legal notice: https://www.skribble.com/de-de/impressum/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Terms of service: https://www.skribble.com/de-de/agb/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] EIDAS levels & trust services — found from sitemap: https://www.skribble.com/en-eu/enable-qes/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] EIDAS levels & trust services — found from sitemap: https://www.skribble.com/de-ch/express-qes/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Signer identification — found from sitemap: https://www.skribble.com/en-eu/identification/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Signer identification — found from sitemap: https://help.skribble.com/de/identifikationspakete (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Signing workflow & signer experience — found from sitemap: https://help.skribble.com/de/signatur-erinnerungen (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Signing workflow & signer experience — found from sitemap: https://help.skribble.com/de/en/signature-reminders (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S12] Evidence, validation & retention — found from sitemap: https://www.skribble.com/de-de/beweisbarometer/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S13] Evidence, validation & retention — found from sitemap: https://help.skribble.com/de/beweiskraft-erhoehen (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S14] Integrations & API — found from sitemap: https://www.skribble.com/en-eu/electronic-signature-api/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S15] Integrations & API — found from sitemap: https://www.skribble.com/de-de/elektronische-signatur-api/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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