Frequently asked questions

SignGuard is a digital contract manager that analyzes and organizes your contracts with AI. The app detects critical clauses, benchmarks them against market standards, tracks deadlines, and helps you understand your contracts — all within seconds, right on your phone. More about our motivation and the team on the About us page.

You upload the contract as a PDF or take a photo of it. SignGuard breaks it down into individual clauses, checks each one against thousands of reference contracts and our own legal database — and rates it with a traffic-light system. Critical points, deadlines, and special terms are shown separately. All in under 30 seconds.

Usually under 30 seconds. Very long contracts (40+ pages) can take up to a minute.

Currently 10 languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian. More are planned — so your German contract can be explained to you in English.

General AI tools like ChatGPT are prone to hallucinations — they invent plausible-sounding but wrong answers, especially on legal topics. SignGuard was developed with lawyers, uses its own legal databases, and runs on EU servers. And SignGuard isn't a chat — it's a complete contract manager with deadline reminders, a clause traffic light, and a contract library.

The team is made up of entrepreneurs, AI engineers, and German lawyers (Rechtsanwälte). The clause ratings follow standards worked out together with legal professionals. Details on the About us page.

For typical consumer contracts the analysis achieves high precision by benchmarking against thousands of reference contracts and our legal database. The traffic-light rating reflects what is market-standard — it is not a legal ruling. For your specific case, a lawyer remains the final authority.

Anyone who signs contracts — tenants, employees, self-employed professionals, freelancers, creators, families, and people starting their careers in Germany. Especially valuable if you manage several contracts in parallel (e.g. landlords with multiple flats or creators with many brand deals).

More than 10 types: rental contracts, employment contracts (including termination agreements), mobile phone contracts, subscriptions, standard terms (AGB), freelancer and influencer contracts, purchase agreements, loan agreements, and insurance contracts. New types are added regularly.

Yes, B2B contracts (framework agreements, service, license, and NDA contracts) are analyzed as well. The clause rating takes the B2B context into account.

Yes. Upload the contract as a PDF or photograph it directly. SignGuard uses OCR to reliably read photographed pages, too.

Yes. The free plan includes 3 full contract analyses, the clause traffic light, and a risk score — no credit card required. So you can try SignGuard risk-free.

€8.99 per month on the monthly plan, or €89.90 per year — which works out to €7.50 per month, with 2 months free. The Pro plan includes unlimited analyses, deadline reminders, contract comparison, and PDF reports. Details on the pricing page.

Yes, family sharing is included in the Family & Friends plan. Up to four family members or friends can manage their own contracts or share access to the same ones — ideal for jointly signed rental or mobile phone contracts. Details on the pricing page.

Yes. The Pro subscription can be canceled on a monthly or yearly basis, directly in your App Store settings. No lock-in, no hidden fees.

Maximum security: GDPR-compliant, TLS-encrypted, processed exclusively on EU-based servers. Uploaded documents are processed in memory only and are not stored permanently. Details on Data security.

Contracts stay on your device and are sent to the server anonymized and only temporarily for the analysis. Afterwards they are not retained in server storage.

No. Your contracts are neither used to train our own models nor passed on to third parties for their use.

Exclusively on servers within the European Union. No processing outside the EU.

Yes, at any time. Individual contracts directly in the app; your entire account on request to info@signguard.app.

Yes, fully. All data processing follows the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Details and legal information in the Privacy Policy.

On iPhone (iOS 16 or later) and Android (8 or later) — both launch at the same time. A web version is in the works.

Yes — SignGuard launches on iOS and Android at the same time.

For the analysis, yes — it runs on EU servers. Contracts you've already analyzed remain available offline in the app library.

No, the analysis needs an internet connection. The results are available offline afterwards.

No. SignGuard does not provide legal advice and does not replace a lawyer. The app benchmarks clauses against market standards and highlights anything unusual. For specific legal questions about your individual case, a lawyer remains the right person to ask — SignGuard prepares you thoroughly for that conversation. With the Lawyer Check you can even do it straight from the app: if the risk is high, you forward your contract to an independent lawyer, with a free initial assessment.

The Lawyer Check is the bridge from the AI analysis to a real lawyer: if SignGuard detects a high risk in your contract, you can forward it, together with a case summary, to an independent lawyer licensed in Germany (Rechtsanwalt) with one tap — via a referral through the advocado partner network. The lawyer doesn't start from zero: your contract and the AI pre-analysis are already on their desk. All details on the Lawyer Check page.

The lawyer's initial assessment is free and non-binding. If the lawyer can take the case further for you, you receive a fixed-price offer with all costs itemized — you only pay if you explicitly accept it. If you decline, you owe nothing.

No automated tool is error-free. For important decisions we always recommend a second opinion from a lawyer. The analysis is meant as decision support, not as a final legal assessment.

Yes. Every analysis can be exported as a structured PDF report — the ideal starting point for a conversation with your lawyer. Your lawyer saves time — and you save on fees.

No. SignGuard deliberately focuses on analysis and management — not signing. For digital signatures, use a specialized e-signature service.