SIGNING A LEASE
How to sign a lease from your phone
A lease usually arrives as a PDF with a deadline attached, and often when you are nowhere near a printer. Here is the whole job on a phone, start to finish, without printing a page.
The four steps
STEP 01
Photograph your signature, once
Sign a blank sheet of white paper and hold your phone over it. SnapInk finds the page, lifts the ink off it and saves it with a transparent background. You only ever do this once — every document after this reuses it.
STEP 02
Open the lease
Open the PDF straight from Files, from Photos, or from the email you were sent. Nothing is uploaded; the file is read on the device.
STEP 03
Sign, initial and date each page
Tap where the signature goes and it snaps to the line. A lease normally wants your initials on every page as well as a signature at the end, and the date beside it — all four item types are in the same editor, and there is no page limit.
STEP 04
Export and send it back
Export a flattened PDF at the quality you pick, then share it, save it to Files, or print it. The signature is part of the page by then, not a layer someone can drag off.
What to watch for on a lease specifically
- Yes:Initials on every page. Landlords and property managers reject a lease that is signed at the end but not initialled throughout, and it is the most common reason one comes back.
- Yes:The date beside the signature, not just in the header. Add it as its own item so it sits where the form expects it.
- Yes:Keep your own copy. SnapInk stores the signed file on your device, but nothing is backed up to us — save it to Files or email it to yourself as well.
- Yes:A lease is usually signed by more than one party. SnapInk signs your side; the other signatures come back on their own pass.
What SnapInk does, and does not, do here
SnapInk places an image of your handwritten signature onto the document. It does not verify who you are, issue a certificate, or produce an audit trail, so it is not an electronic signature service in the regulated sense. Whether that is enough depends on your country and on the document — if yours has to be witnessed, notarised, or signed with a qualified electronic signature, use a service built for that.
Free to try, nothing to set up
Install the app, photograph your signature, and sign the lease. There is no account, no email to give, and the whole thing runs on the phone whether or not you have a connection.