Give upad a look if you simply need to capture a signature. Also serves as a great note taking app.

Thanks everyone for sharing your favorite apps. I'm leaning to getting all of these, each has slightly different features:

Notorize, SignMyPad and PDF Expert.

Over the weekend I asked a question of the support team at Readdle and today they gave this response:

Dear Jim,

Thank you for contacting us. PDF Expert for iPad allows to add and save signatures in password protected PDF documents.

Best regards,

Olga Tatarchenkova,
Marketing manager,
Readdle Inc.

Looks like getting signatures on protected PDF documents (paperlessly) is not going to be a problem.

Do you actually sign on the "dotted line" so to speak or do you sign in a box and then drag it to the line?? This is how I've seen before??

Remember though, if your password is so tough for you to remember, that you have to write it down. That paper is a key as well, (except of course if you make it inconvenient physically such as locking it into a safety deposit box at a credit union or bank).

Also, one of the classic security problems that bypasses passwords, no matter how good, is called buffer overflow. Thus far, the iOS world has been spared to my knowledge of attacks and Apple has made it very difficult to even have someone try and create code to do this.

Maybe now that Adobe is folding it Flash tent on mobile, they will bring out their own PDF tool to the iOS world with direct signature support, it would probably at $10 to $20 a shot and wide acceptance, only make them a few hundred million dollars real quick on the iPad with paperless initiatives going on all over the place. My guess, they will make it $19.99, but first release it for $5 on debut to get publicity.

Adobe will need no advertising to make hundreds of millions on iOS secure signature App software! Talk about profits, they can ditch flash and make far more on mobile just doing your 'John Henry' on iPad and maybe later on Android, (RIM job and Win iMMobile).

Originally Posted by Hgieson

Does anyone have a good application for using a digital signature to certify and sign documents on the iPad? Mainly looking to sign PDFs.

You can easily sign PDF documents with PDF Forms. Besides that it allows you to fill PDF forms and annotate PDF documents!

pdf-notes free for ipad is very good. PDFs can be imported/exported through iTunes. And the writing looks natural enough. Though, there is that one bug which they promise to fix soon: erased annotations show in other viewers. But if you just clear all annotations at once and start over then it works fine.

Also, have you looked at Adobe Echosign?

I already had iAnnotate and while it's great for annotations, it didn't do what I really wanted, which was to sign and date contracts sent to me as PDFs then send the signed documents back (not as annotations to the original, but as a "flattened" new PDF). I took a chance on PDF Forms and it did exactly what I wanted! It doesn't have all the annotation bells and whistles of iAnnotate, so I'll still use iAnnotate for markups and document reviews, but for CONTRACTS, PDF Forms is awesome. Note that it does not electronically sign documents, it's basically a paper signature without the print, sign and scan steps.

good subject, thanks.

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Does anyone know of a program that can watch you draw a signature and then play it back as a once only gif? That would be awesome.