Documenso
Documenso is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Document Management category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat and ships a Docker image. It has 15,565 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Document Management
- TypeScript
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 15,565
- Forks
- 3,406
- Open issues
- 150
- Commits, last 12 months
- 725
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.21.1Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- Mar 12, 2023
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 725 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 725 |
| Latest release | v2.21.1 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 60 |
| Open issues | 150 |
| Open pull requests | 88 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Mar 12, 2023 |
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About Documenso
Digital document signing platform (alternative to DocuSign).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/documenso/documenso.
Topics
- document-signing
- next-auth
- nextjs
- open-source
- pades-standard
- pdf-sign
- pdf-signature
- postgresql
- prisma
- self-hosted
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Is Documenso free and open source?
Yes. Documenso is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Documenso with Docker?
Yes. Documenso provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Documenso?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Documenso include Stirling-PDF, Paperless-ngx and Docuseal. Documenso itself is a self-hosted alternative to DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat.
Is Documenso actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Documenso was on Oct 26, 2026 with 725 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.21.1, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 150 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.