DocHub
Browser PDF editor and e-signature tool wired into Google Drive and Gmail.
Opens the vendor's own site.
Jobs covered
Open a task to see exactly what the vendor documentation supports.
Sign
Browse all sign toolsdownloading a PDF from DocHub as a digitally certified copy, or receiving one automatically from a Sign Request, where the PDF carries an embedded X.509 PKI digital signature issued by DocHub that indicates the document has not been modified since signing and proves its authenticity, is LTV enabled, and may embed signer details such as name, email and geolocation in the signature reason
Merge
Browse all merge toolsmerging documents into one single combined PDF in the DocHub web editor, from the Page Manager or Page Controls panel using the merge and append file option, importing one or more PDFs from the device, cloud storage or the users own DocHub account and choosing whether the incoming file is inserted before or after a page of the current document, with the combined document remaining editable and able to be sent for signatures
Protect
Browse all protect toolsadding password protection to a downloaded PDF with the password protect option in the Encrypt group of the PDF Options in DocHub's download or export dialog, which according to the help article adds password encryption to the downloaded PDF, so the protection is applied to the exported file rather than to the copy stored in the account
Where your files are processed
Reported to upload your files
The vendor states that files are uploaded to their servers. We have not independently tested this.
Documents are uploaded and saved in your account, and the vendor's help centre states they are stored in encrypted AWS S3 storage until you delete them. The editor runs in the browser but the document does not stay on your machine.
What it does
DocHub is a browser-based PDF editor and e-signature service. You upload a PDF or import from Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, then edit embedded text, annotate, add fillable form fields, merge, split or reorder pages, and sign it or send it for signature with tracking.
Uploaded documents live in your DocHub account on its storage until you delete them. Free accounts can edit, sign and share within daily and monthly limits.
Best for
Google Workspace-centric individuals and teams that need to fill, edit and e-sign PDFs in a browser without installing desktop software.
Worth knowing
Cloud only: files are uploaded and stored until you delete them, free accounts are capped by daily and monthly limits, and premium tools require DocHub Pro. Its whiteout and redact tool covers content rather than removing it.
Redaction behaviour is not independently tested and the vendor documentation conflicts: the linked help article describes movable whiteout annotations, while the current pricing matrix describes permanent text and image removal. Neither marketing language nor reversibility inside the editor establishes what an exported PDF contains, so an applied and exported file would need extraction and object inspection before a Removes or Covers verdict is assigned.
Current pricing describes a shared three-use monthly allowance across core free features rather than unspecified daily or monthly limits, and Pro documents Bulk Send, so bulk signing is vendor-supported with a plan restriction rather than general PDF batch processing. Document-password protection appears in the enterprise Site License comparison, so Protect is qualified by operation and plan.
Cloud storage and optional AI workflows are vendor-reported.
Details, and where each comes from
Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.
- Versions covered
- Web · iOS · Android
- Website
- dochub.com
- Requires an account
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- Watermark on the free tier
- Not verified
- Maximum file size
- Not verified
- Batch processing
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Open source
- Not verified
- Self-hostable
- Not verified
- Licence
- Not verified
- Redaction
- Covers it - content is not removed
- Programmatic access
- None
- Last availability check
- Responded in 150 ms 21 October 2026
Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.
What the redaction verdict rests on
From the vendor's own documentation, read 22 September 2026. Not tested by us.
“The Whiteout Tool allows you to easily cover up and erase content on a PDF document. … lets you frame a box over any area of your document you want to cover or erase with whiteout. … This will create a boxed annotation window that is filled with white space.”
What that does not establish
The vendor’s own help article, not a test we ran. The wording decides the verdict: the tool creates a boxed ANNOTATION filled with white space, and an annotation is something added to the page - nothing here says the covered characters leave the file.
The same article notes that the black variant ("Redact") requires the paid Pro plan while whiteout is available without it, so which of the two a reader gets depends on their plan.
What the vendor says
Claims are labelled rather than repeated as fact. Where we have checked something ourselves, it says so and shows when. Checked means we read the vendor's own page and it says what we recorded - not that we tested the behaviour, unless the note says we did.
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“DocHub is encrypted end-to-end, and files are stored in AWS (Amazon Web Services) using encrypted S3 storage.”
Checked by us - the source says this Read 22 September 2026
Confirmed verbatim: "DocHub is encrypted end-to-end, and files are stored in AWS (Amazon Web Services) using encrypted S3 storage." One part of that sentence is supported on the page and one part is not, and a reader deserves to know which. The storage half is stated plainly and consistently.
The "end-to-end" half rests on transport encryption: the only evidence the article offers is "The details of the SSL encryption can be seen by clicking the green lock icon in your browser when visiting DocHub". TLS protects the connection between a browser and a server; end-to-end encryption in its ordinary sense means the provider cannot read the content, and nothing on the page claims that or describes a scheme that would achieve it.
Recorded as the vendor's wording rather than as a finding about the product, because we have not tested the service - but the phrase overstates what the page itself evidences, and this is the kind of wording a reader is most likely to take at face value.
Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
- From
- the text a browser renders
- SHA-256
- 042839529509a5152f6662bc1c248c7621786e9d7bdda8db57f6f010408d5203
How we checked
Re-verified verbatim on 2026-09-22: https://help.dochub.com/knowledge-base/security-privacy-compliance-and-data-retention/how-secure-is-dochub-to-use re-rendered in headless Chrome with scripts/render-page.mjs and the claim's wording found in the rendered text. Originally verified on 2026-09-21. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the re-rendered text, held as rv-help-dochub-com-knowledge-base-security-privacy-compliance-a79f7f4b.txt.
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“All documents you upload directly to DocHub will be saved in your account permanently without an expiration date unless you manually delete the file from DocHub.”
Checked by us - the source says this Read 22 September 2026
Confirmed verbatim: the article's answer opens with the claim exactly. It is recorded as confirmed rather than partial because the exception the page then describes falls outside the claim's own scope, and that distinction took reading to establish.
The claim covers "documents you upload directly to DocHub"; the page's "one exception to this automatic save rule" is for a free account opening a file from Google Drive or Gmail through Open With, where nothing is annotated and Save in DocHub is never pressed - "the file will only be stored in DocHub for 7 days and then be automatically deleted", with a days-left label shown and an Activity Feed entry reading "DocHub Maintenance Server" and "Destroyed".
A direct upload is not that case, but a free-account reader is, and this is the fact they need from this page. Two more details belong with it: manual deletion is irreversible, and the page states "We do not retain any backup copies as part of our privacy and data retention policy", which is a stronger commitment than the claim and one that makes the manual delete path final.
Recorded as the vendor's description; we have not tested the service and no control was run.
Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
- From
- the text a browser renders
- SHA-256
- 2c4d3aa6d344ff0940655bde4ef09abf72cde80e006170eac7e45f99afc51d06
How we checked
Re-verified verbatim on 2026-09-22: https://help.dochub.com/knowledge-base/security-privacy-compliance-and-data-retention/will-dochub-ever-automatically-delete-my-pdf-documents re-rendered in headless Chrome with scripts/render-page.mjs and the claim's wording found in the rendered text. Originally verified on 2026-09-21. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the re-rendered text, held as rv-help-dochub-com-knowledge-base-security-privacy-compliance-3b36ef80.txt.
Each claim is quoted from the vendor's own pages. This section describes what we have and have not checked - it is not a judgement about anyone.
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