Fill and sign PDFs on your Mac

Most tools type text on top of a PDF and call it filled. OwnClip writes into the document’s own form fields, so what you send is still a real form with selectable text.

Free to use. Recordings are capped at three minutes and export at 720p with a watermark.

An IRS W-9 open in OwnClip with its real form fields being filled, page thumbnails on the left and the field list on the right — A real W-9, filled through the document’s own form fields — not text stamped on top

Stamped text is not a filled form

Typing a text box over a PDF produces something that looks right and behaves wrong: the recipient cannot search it, an automated system cannot read the fields, and a nudged box lands the answer in the wrong row.

A PDF form has actual fields in it — text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns. Filling those is a different operation, and the difference shows up the moment somebody processes the document.

Same editor

Documents and captures, together.

The PDF opens in the editor that handles your screenshots, so the markup tools, the blur and the text extraction are the ones you already know.

A capture open in the OwnClip screenshot editor with the AI actions menu showing Adjustments, Beautify, Smart Redact and Extract Text — Everything the editor can do to a capture, one menu deep

Scanned documents

Text out of a picture of text.

Extraction runs on your Mac, so a scanned contract becomes searchable without the document leaving your machine. Free covers five a month; Pro removes the limit.

Text being extracted from a screenshot region in OwnClip and turned into editable text — Text pulled straight out of anything on screen

What it does

Real form fields

Text, checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns written as field values.

Forms without fields

Flat and scanned forms get their lines detected, so they can be filled too.

Signatures

Draw a signature and place it into a signature field.

Autofill

Details saved locally fill the usual name and address fields in one action.

Text extraction

Pull text out of a scanned document.

Pages and passwords

Page thumbnails, compression, and password-protected documents.

Questions people ask

Yes, on every tier. Free exports carry a watermark and are flattened; Pro and Studio export clean and can keep the form editable.

On Pro and Studio, yes — the fields keep their values and stay editable. Free exports are flattened, which fixes the values in place.

Yes. Line detection finds where the answers belong on flat and scanned documents.

Yes. You can draw a signature and place it into a signature field. These are drawn electronic signatures, not certificate-based digital signatures.

No. PDF editing and text extraction run on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose to share the file.

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