Mark a document DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, or with your own name before sharing it externally. Takes a few seconds, and you control the wording, color, size, and opacity.
Type your watermark text, tweak the color and size, and it gets stamped across every page in one pass. At a moderate opacity it sits behind the readable content without making the page hard to read.
DRAFT and CONFIDENTIAL cover most internal use cases. For external sharing, a lot of people use their company name or "Sample - Not For Distribution" to make clear the file shouldn't be redistributed as-is.
A watermark added here becomes part of the page content, similar to how professional watermarking works. You'd need the original un-watermarked file for full removal, though our Smart Watermark Remover can help erase watermarks where you don't have the clean original.
Yes, consistently across the whole document in one pass.
This tool is text-only for now. For image-based branding, Sign PDF lets you place a hand-drawn mark anywhere on a page.
At typical opacity settings it stays visible while the original content remains clearly readable. Adjust the opacity slider to find the right balance for your document.
Yes, you can pick any color, adjust the opacity, and set the text size before applying it.
Yes, it's applied uniformly across all pages of the document in one pass.
Since the watermark becomes part of the page content, the cleanest fix is re-uploading your original (un-watermarked) file and reapplying with corrected settings.