Legacy letters
The things you’d want said, if you weren’t there to say them.
Write letters now that your family receives only after you’re gone — released by people you choose, not by a machine guessing. A will handles your possessions. This handles everything else.
How a letter gets released
The mechanism matters more than the features here, so here it is in full.
You nominate trusted contacts
People who would know. They’re told they’ve been chosen and have to accept the role — nobody is enrolled silently.
A majority has to agree, independently
One person can’t trigger a release. More than half of your contacts must confirm separately before anything moves.
Then a waiting period, deliberately
After confirmation there’s a mandatory delay before delivery, and we email you throughout it. If it was a mistake, you cancel and nothing was sent.
Your letters reach the people you addressed them to
Each letter goes to its own recipient, with enough context that it isn’t mistaken for spam by someone who has never heard of us.
The questions people actually ask
“What if you don’t exist by then?”
Before this service could ever shut down, every undelivered letter is emailed back to the account that wrote it, with at least 90 days’ notice. That’s in the Terms, not just on a page. You can also download everything at any time.
“Could my letters be released while I’m alive?”
It would take a majority of your own trusted contacts confirming, and then you ignoring every warning email through the waiting period. The system is built assuming a false alarm will happen eventually.
“Can you read what I write?”
Letters are encrypted before they’re stored, with a key held by the service. Being precise: that means we technically could, and we don’t — nothing in the product reads letter contents, and they’re never sold or used as training data. Any service that also has to deliver your letter is in the same position; be sceptical of one that claims otherwise.
“Is this a substitute for a will?”
No, and it isn’t trying to be. This carries no legal weight and should never hold instructions about assets. It’s for the part a solicitor has no way to draft.
Most people put this off indefinitely.
You don’t have to finish it today. Write one paragraph, save it, and come back — a letter that exists in draft is infinitely further along than one you keep meaning to start.
Write the first paragraph