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GOV.BR Signature already totals over half a billion uses, allows validating contracts, receipts, and digital files with legal validity, and shows how Brazil is advancing in the digitalization of public services without completely eliminating notaries.
The free Government tool created to sign digital documents has already surpassed the mark of 500 million signatures in Brazil and has become one of the most used solutions for those looking to reduce costs, travel, and bureaucracy in contracts, receipts, and digital files.
According to the website ND Mais, the turning point is how the service works: instead of printing papers, notarizing signatures, or depending on in-person service in various situations, users can validate a document via their cell phone, within the GOV.BR environment, provided they have a Silver or Gold level account.
GOV.BR Signature turns cell phones into a tool for validating documents
The GOV.BR Signature platform allows Brazilians to sign digital documents with legal validity. The service has existed since 2020 and has grown rapidly in recent years.
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In its first year, the feature registered approximately 60,000 signatures. Now, the volume has already exceeded 500 million, showing how digitalization has become part of the routine for individuals, companies, accountants, and Brazilians who need to handle documents remotely.
The logic is simple: the user accesses GOV.BR, selects the document, chooses the signature location, and confirms the operation with a code sent by the platform itself.
As a result, signing no longer depends solely on paper, printing, and physical travel, although not all procedures can be done without a notary.
Over 94 million digital signatures were made in the first months of 2026
The strongest growth came from 2023, according to information released by the government. In the first months of 2026 alone, digital signatures via GOV.BR had already accumulated over 94 million uses.
This number helps explain why the tool gained traction in the country. The platform began to be used for business documents, contracts, receipts, and other digital files requiring formal confirmation.
The advancement also accompanies the expansion of GOV.BR itself, which currently brings together over 13,000 digital services and approximately 176 million users.
In practice, digital signatures have become a gateway to a more remote public service model, where part of the bureaucracy can be resolved without a counter, queue, or paper.
Silver or Gold account unlocks the service and enhances signature security
To use GOV.BR Signature, citizens need to have a Silver or Gold level account. These levels indicate more robust forms of identity verification within the platform.
A Silver account can be obtained through facial recognition using a CNH (National Driver’s License) or bank validation. A Gold account, on the other hand, requires stronger methods, such as facial recognition with Electoral Justice data, a QR Code from the new identity card, or a digital certificate.
This point is important because the validity of the signature depends on the confirmation of the signer’s identity. In other words, the system does not function merely as a signature drawn on the screen, but as a digital validation linked to the user’s official profile.
It is this mechanism that allows a digitally signed document to have legal validity under the conditions provided for the service.
Government says the solution reduces bureaucracy and facilitates remote documents
According to Rogério Mascarenhas, Secretary of Digital Government at MGI, the tool’s proposal is to simplify processes that previously depended on notary offices and in-person service.
He stated that the solution allows signing a legally valid document via cell phone, anywhere.
This use is especially relevant for entrepreneurs, accountants, and Brazilians living abroad, groups cited by the government as among the most frequent users of the functionality.
For those who need to sign contracts, receipts, or business documents, the savings are not just in direct cost. There is also a reduction in time, travel, printing, physical mailing, and the need to organize paper documents.
Notary offices won’t disappear, but some paperwork will lose ground
Despite the advancement, Assinatura GOV.BR does not completely replace notary offices in Brazil. Some procedures still require in-person authentication, specific registrations, or validations provided by law.
Therefore, the idea of “the end of notary offices” needs to be viewed with caution. What is happening is a reduction in some paperwork in situations where digital signatures are accepted.
Even so, the impact is significant. The tool reduces the dependence on signature recognition in various daily situations and helps shift some bureaucracy to the digital environment.
This movement shows that notary offices continue to exist but now coexist with electronic solutions that simplify simpler and recurring processes.
Digitization of public services changes Brazilians’ relationship with documents
The expansion of digital signatures is part of a larger transformation in Brazilian public services. With millions of users and thousands of services gathered on GOV.BR, the country is expanding the offering of digital solutions for tasks that previously required physical presence.
The growth of the tool also reveals a change in behavior. Each signature made via cell phone represents a document that can circulate in digital format, with less dependence on printing and faster validation.
For the common user, this can mean fewer steps to resolve issues. For companies and professionals who deal with documentation every day, it can represent greater operational agility.
The advancement of Assinatura GOV.BR shows that digitization does not eliminate all formal requirements but redefines the path between the citizen, the document, and legal validation. With over half a billion registered signatures, the Government’s free tool has ceased to be merely an alternative and has come to occupy a real space in Brazil’s bureaucratic routine.
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