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Yes — unlimited free use with a watermark and 0 AI Deep Detect, then $8.99/mo Start for 8 AI Deep Detect/mo. No credit card required for the free plan.

Yes — we host in Frankfurt (EU), AES-256 at rest. GDPR-compliant, never used to train third-party AI.

Canva ($14.99/mo Canva Pro to remove the watermark, unlock the Brand Kit and access Magic Resize + Smart Mockups) is design-first — fantastic for marketing collateral, weak for IRS forms, contracts and structured legal documents because text is rasterized and PDF field tagging is non-existent (your output cannot be parsed by SEC EDGAR or IRS Modernized e-File ingestion). Adobe Acrobat Pro ($19.99/mo) requires a desktop install on macOS Sequoia or Windows 11 plus an Adobe ID and ~1 GB local cache; the free Acrobat online tier only lets you annotate, not create from a template. pdfFiller ($20/mo for full features, AWS US infrastructure under Cloud Act reach) is form-builder-first but charges from page #1 once you exceed the trial. DocFly hard-caps the free tier at 3 downloads per month before forcing a $9.99/mo subscription, and stores your files on AWS us-east-1 under Cloud Act / FISA 702 reach. iFillPDF gives you unlimited free use with a watermark and 0 AI Deep Detect (enough for one full invoice + signature affidavit, or a 5-page NDA + W-9), no install, no watermark, 100+ AI-curated templates including IRS Form W-9, Form 8821, Schedule C, 1099-NEC, single-member LLC operating agreements, ESIGN Act-compliant offer letters and Stripe Atlas-aligned founder docs — plus AI cross-document field memory none of the four competitors match. Output is true ISO 32000-2:2020 PDF 2.0 with optional ISO 19005-2 PDF/A-2 archival mode for 26 USC § 6001 IRS records retention, 17 CFR §232.302 SEC EDGAR or Companies Act 2006 §388 statutory retention.

Yes — for the vast majority of commercial use cases. Our e-signature satisfies the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN Act, 15 USC §7001 et seq.) and UETA in the 49 adopting states (New York uses the parallel Electronic Signatures and Records Act, ESRA), meaning a signed contract, NDA, MSA or offer letter has the same legal weight as a wet-ink signature in federal court. For IRS purposes the agency accepts e-signed Form W-9 (Rev. October 2018, Pub 1345 and IRM 21.3.7.7) and most Form 1099 variants (1099-NEC, 1099-MISC, 1099-K), and SEC accepts e-signatures on EDGAR filings under 17 CFR §232.302. The exception is documents Congress and state legislatures specifically carved out — wills, codicils and testamentary trusts under UETA §3(b)(1) (use our /en/tools/last-will-testament-pdf workflow which prints for wet-ink execution), notarized real-estate deeds requiring Remote Online Notarization (RON), and IRS Form 2848 (Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative) which the IRS still requires in wet-ink for most matters. For everything else — invoices, purchase orders, contractor agreements, IRC § 83(b) equity grant letters, Stripe Atlas founder consents, FinCEN BOI Rule 31 CFR §1010.380 disclosures — the iFillPDF e-signature is sufficient and embeds a court-admissible audit trail comparable to DocuSign ($10/mo Personal limited to 5 envelopes) and Adobe Sign ($14.99/mo) at zero cost on the free tier.

Yes — the iFillPDF editor lets you drop AcroForm-compatible interactive fields (text, multi-line text, checkbox, radio button, dropdown, signature, date picker) directly onto any blank or template-based PDF, in compliance with ISO 32000-2:2020 §12.7 (Interactive Forms) and tagged for WCAG 2.2 AA + PDF/UA-1 ISO 14289-1 accessibility. Recipients fill it in any modern PDF reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader, Apple Preview macOS Sequoia, Foxit, Edge built-in viewer, Firefox PDF.js) without needing iFillPDF. For comparison: pdfFiller ($20/mo) charges from the first form, DocFly caps fillable forms at 3/mo on free, Adobe Acrobat $19.99/mo requires desktop install + Adobe ID, and Canva produces flat rasterized PDFs with zero interactive fields — they cannot be filled, only annotated. iFillPDF gives you 10 fillable forms per month on the free tier; Start at $8.99/mo unlocks unlimited forms and the AI auto-detect-fields feature that scans an uploaded PDF and proposes 30-50 candidate fields in ~600ms.

Drop the file into the upload zone — our converter preserves Microsoft Office formatting (Word .docx with track changes resolved, Excel .xlsx with frozen panes + formulas as cell values, PowerPoint .pptx with embedded fonts and slide notes), image fidelity (JPG, PNG, HEIC at native resolution up to 4096x4096, TIFF up to 1200 dpi with embedded ICC profiles like Adobe RGB 1998 / sRGB IEC 61966-2-1) and outputs a true ISO 32000-2:2020 PDF 2.0 with selectable text, embedded fonts (subset for size), and clickable hyperlinks. iPhone HEIC photos shot since iOS 11 are auto-converted to PDF without the silent JPEG-quality-65 downsample that Smallpdf $9/mo and Adobe online apply on the free tier. Page order is preserved across multi-file batches (alphanumeric sort with zero-padded names), unlike FreeConvert which reorders alphabetically by raw filename and breaks 1, 10, 11, 2 sequences. Output works flawlessly in IRS Modernized e-File ingestion, SEC EDGAR submissions and HMRC Making Tax Digital uploads.

Genuinely free, no card, no signup required for client-side conversions. You get unlimited free use with a watermark and 0 AI Deep Detect — enough for one full invoice + W-9 + signature affidavit, or a 5-page NDA, or a 3-page MSA + IRC §83(b) equity grant. A watermark on free output, removed on Start. No 7-day trial trap like Adobe Acrobat ($19.99/mo after trial) or Smallpdf ($9/mo Pro after 7 days). No 3-downloads-per-month hard cap like DocFly. No 2-tasks-per-day cap like Smallpdf free. Start at $8.99/mo unlocks 8 AI Deep Detect/mo, AI auto-detect-fields, unlimited fillable forms and SOC 2 Type II audit log export — still cheaper than DocuSign Personal $10/mo (5 envelopes), Canva Pro $14.99/mo, Adobe Sign $14.99/mo, Adobe Acrobat Pro $19.99/mo and pdfFiller $20/mo, with zero Cloud Act exposure (Hetzner Frankfurt EU under TADPF).