DocuSign vs HelloSign: What are the differences?

Developers describe DocuSign as "The fastest, most secure way to sign, send, and store documents in the cloud". DocuSign automates manual, paper-based processes allowing you to manage all aspects of documented business transactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms/data collection, collaboration, workflow automation and storage. On the other hand, HelloSign is detailed as "Embed signing functionality into your own site with just a few lines of code". HelloSign provides fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for Business. Our API gives you the ability to embed signing right into your own site with just a few lines of code. Set-up only takes minutes to complete.

DocuSign and HelloSign belong to "Document Signature" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by DocuSign are:

• Sign online without pen or paper
• Type and select a signature or write your own.
• Legally sign documents with simple clicks from any computer or mobile device.

On the other hand, HelloSign provides the following key features:

• Simple, easy to use, REST based API. Yep, there’s just one. No need to coordinate 3 APIs from the same company, just to send a document for signature
• Great wrappers. We also launching SDKs for Python, Ruby, PHP and Java, with more languages to come
• Self sign up. No need to talk to a salesperson or support to get started

Twitter, Kickstarter, and Instacart are some of the popular companies that use HelloSign, whereas DocuSign is used by ebay, LinkedIn, and Box. HelloSign has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 8 developers stacks; compared to DocuSign, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.