The Digital Beyond maintains this list of online services that are designed to help you plan for your digital death and afterlife or memorialize loved ones.
These services come in all flavors including digital estate services, posthumous email services and online memorials.
If your service is not listed here, don’t feel left out. Let us know and we’ll add it to the list.
1000Memories
1000memories.comFounded: July, 2010
1000memories provides memorial websites that allows users to invite other friends of the deceased to submit photos and stories. Founded by three friends who have lost loved ones, the site brings together the family and friends of the deceased to create a unique online memorial.
Afternote
www.afternote.comFounded: 2013
Afternote is a new free secure online platform aimed at helping people store everything that matters to them the most in life and in death. Your account contains four sections: Bucket List, Timeline, Wishes and Messages. These allow you to plan, organize and store everything, from what happens to your social media accounts after you die, to planning your funeral, leave messages for loved ones and setting up a bucket list. By inviting three trustees they will be able to access your account after your death, so they can inform friends and family about all the important information and answers you have left behind.
AfterSteps
www.aftersteps.comFounded: 2010
AfterSteps is an all-in-one end-of-life planning service. AfterSteps simplifies the end-of-life planning process by guiding users step-by-step through the estate, financial, funeral and legacy planning that make up a complete plan. AfterSteps stores your plan and related documents, and then transfers them to your designated beneficiaries upon passing. AfterSteps provides peace of mind and control, and reduces the financial and emotional burden for surviving loved ones.
Afterwords.cc
afterwords.ccFounded: 2012
Afterwords.cc is a secure online tool for leaving posthumous messages. The free version allows up to 3 messages to individuals or groups, while a small subscription enables unlimited messages. Invite two or more trustees to activate your account when you die, whenever that happens to be. We should all take the time to organize our affairs in the event of an accident or sudden illness, and we think you’ll find that doing it gives you peace of mind. What would you say?
AssetLock
www.assetlock.netFounded: November, 2006
AssetLock is an online safe deposit box that allows users to upload files, passwords, and instructions to be released to predetermined individuals at their death. The service also allows for email messages and printed letters to be sent. AssetLock determines you have passed by waiting for a certain number of your recipients to log in and certify your passing. Once your death is confirmed your account will be unlocked (after a time delay preset by you).
Bcelebrated
www.bcelebrated.comFounded: July, 2009
Bcelebrated enables members to create a multi-media website that will become their autobiographical memorial site when the time comes. Members create password-protected private pages for loved ones, record their last wishes, and assign a charity to receive donations on their behalf. The service also sends automated notification emails at the time of a member’s death and provides a list of numbers for those who need to be called.
Chronicle of Life
www.chronicleoflife.comFounded: 2008
Not exactly an online memorial, Chronicle of Life is a perpetual data hosting service with the mission to host your digital files “forever.” How does that work? You pay once and this 501(c)(3) non-profit promises to keep your data for all eternity.
Cirrus Legacy
www.cirruslegacy.comFounded: 2011
Cirrus Legacy is a service that stores your digital assets on a single hub. When you die, your digital executor or ‘Guardian’ can carry out your wishes for each specific asset.
Dead Man’s Switch
www.deadmansswitch.netFounded: August, 2008
Dead Man’s Switch is a simple posthumous email service. Users can create an account or log in via OpenID. Once logged in they can create messages to be sent after their death. Dead Man’s Switch asks that users log in periodically to verify that they are still alive. If users do not log in after three email reminders, their messages are released.
Death Switch
deathswitch.comFounded: 2006
Death Switch sends out emails after you die, or at least after it stops hearing from you. You get one email with no attachments for free, or 30 emails with attachments for $19.95 a year.
DocuBank
www.docubank.comFounded: 1993
DocuBank was created in 1993 as an advance directives registry to make sure members have access 24-hour access to their advance directives. More than 200,000 members have used the DocuBank service since then, and DocuBank has added new features, including an online vault called SAFE that provides a place for members to store files. DocuBank’s latest Digital Executor feature allows members to designate one person who will be able to access all of their online files once we’ve received proof of the member’s death or permanent incapacity.
E-Z-Safe
http://www.e-z-safe.com/Founded: March, 2011
E-Z-Safe is an online service (SaaS) that allows you to securely store, update, retrieve and pass on all your growing digital assets. E-Z-Safe is actually a 3 in 1 system, comprising of 1. secure, online Digital Safes (you can have several for different purposes), 2. An automatic/manual health/death check system and 3. An automatic distribution system upon the due date. A free basic version is available.
Entrustet (now part of Secure Safe)
www.entrustet.comFounded: 2009
Entrustet is now part of SecureSafe
Entrustet is a free online service that allows you to securely list all of your digital assets (online accounts and files on your computer), and decide if you’d like them transferred to heirs or deleted when you pass away. Entrustet also offers standardized and custom solutions for websites to help them deal with user deaths and last wishes.
Estate Map
estatemap.comFounded: 2013
Estate Map is a cloud-based, highly-secure, supplemental estate planning tool that is simple to plug into an estate planning law practice. It easily moves an estate planning attorney’s intake online, and gives clients a secure place to store and pass on important estate information. Estate Map then automates communication with clients and their representatives to […]
Estate++
www.estateplusplus.comFounded: May, 2008
Estate++ is a virtual safe deposit box that was developed in response to the need for safe and reliable access to information for planning and emergency purposes. Through natural disaster, theft — even death and incapacity — your information is always available.
EstateLogic
www.executorsresource.comFounded: 2008
EstateLogic is a digital estate planning service where you can gather and store your important documents, personal instructions, and family stories. This service can help your family settle your estate and preserve your legacy.
Eterniam
eterniam.comFounded: 2013
Eterniam enables you to create your digital estate. It preserves all your digital assets: photos, videos, documents, your content from other services (such as Facebook) and more to come. You can bequeath each asset to chosen beneficiaries. Security and privacy are integral to the service. The terms of use spell out very clearly how digital assets are passed on. Eterniam is designed to be used every day, with one of its web or mobile apps.
Eternity Message
www.eternitymessage.com/Founded: 2009
Eternity Message is a service that allows you to send emails a set number of years into the future. The free plan allows messages to be sent up to one year into the future, but their premium service offers emails up to 60 years into the future. Unlike other services on our list, Eternity Message allows you to set an interval in the future and does not have any trigger based upon your death.
GEN-ARC
www.gen-arc.comFounded: 2011
As a leader in digital estate scanning and preservation solutions, GEN-ARC™ is committed to helping people organize, convert, protect and preserve valued digital estate assets for future heirs. GEN-ARC™’s cloud-based Digital Asset Management System is designed to facilitate generational succession(s) and future technology changes. It utilizes a uniquely-secure, financial trust to ensure the permanent protection of every generational archive and the priceless family history it contains.
GhostMemo
www.ghostmemo.comFounded: 2013
GhostMemo is a website that provides a way for people to send emergency messages to their emergency contacts in case they become “inactive” and stop responding to proof-of-life email requests. Messages can be customized for multiple recipients, can include attachments, and max inactivity period can be changed at any time.
GoneTooSoon
www.gonetoosoon.orgFounded: 2008
GoneTooSoon is a not-for-profit organization which enables anyone to create a free online memorial for a relative or friend who has passed away.
GreatGoodbye
greatgoodbye.comFounded: 2009
European based email service starting at $39.00 or $9.95 per year. Users can draft email messages ahead of time to be sent posthumously along with photos, videos, and audio recordings. The service guarantees that your memorial will remain online for 20 years following your death. Requires that you grant a passcode to a friend or relative who will activate the delivery process. Users are given 21 days to cancel sending after the delivery is triggered.
if i die.org
ifidie.orgFounded:
if i die.org provides an ultra-simple, straightforward, and free way to write notes that will only be delivered if you die. The service is free, easy to use, and completely secure. Use this website to leave instructions for what to do with your pets and journals, to write letters to the people you care about, or for anything else you want. It’s not as morbid or scary as you think; it’s an easy way to be prepared just in case something totally unexpected happens.
Legacy Locker
www.legacylocker.comFounded: 2009
Legacy Locker is the safe and secure way to pass your online accounts to your friends and loved ones. It’s like a digital safety deposit box – you can put all your online accounts (emails, photos, social networks, everything online that requires a login) in it. For every account you store, you can assign a beneficiary, someone to whom you want to entrust your digital assets for the future. Currently running at $29.99 a year or 299.99 for a lifetime subscription.
Legacy Organiser
http://www.legacyorganiser.com/Founded: May 2011
Legacy Organiser is an iPhone app which enables users to manage and control their legacy. Users can record their intentions and wishes for all aspects of their funeral, farewell and will, and select life defining information, experiences, photos and songs to create their own legacy. This information can be used for personal reference, shared or passed on to family or loved ones.
Legacy.com
legacy.comFounded: 1999
Legacy.com is a site that offers online obituaries, memorial Web sites, and online guest books.
Life Book
www.life-book.comFounded: 2010
Life Book is a service that hosts memorial websites of those you have loved and want to remember. You design and administer a memorial network that is just for you, your relatives and friends. Create a special remembrance place for them with pictures, songs, videos and testimonies that you will share.
Life Document Storage
www.lifedocumentstorage.comFounded: 2013
Life Document Storage is an online end-of-life and information transfer company that provides consumers with the ability to not only store their life documents and information in a safe and secure environment, but allows for the transfer of the information upon the death or incapacitation of the consumer. Life Document Storage was founded by CEO Bill Simpson, a second generation licensed funeral director in Michigan.
LifeEnsured
www.lifeensured.comFounded: 2010
LifeEnsured is a digital estate planning and posthumous email service. It allows you to define what you would like to have happen to your online accounts (i.e. passed on to a family member, deleted, changed). They also allow you to prepare email messages and files which should be sent to you loved ones after you pass away. A limited accounts is free.
LifeNaut
lifenaut.comFounded: 2010
LifeNaut is a service that allows you to create interactive avatars, upload content, and even an DNA sample so that you can “create a free back-up of [your] mind and genetic code.”
LifeStory.com
http://LifeStory.comFounded: 2013
LifeStory.com is a free site dedicated to preserving the memories and stories of people that have passed. Users can create public or private stories as well as invite friends and family to contribute to a LifeStory page in order to compile the stories, memories and photos that make up a life in one place.
Lifestrand
www.lifestrand.netFounded: 2009
Lifestrand.net is a social utility for reminiscing and sharing fond memories with people close to you of your dearest moments with parents, relatives or friends, which have departed the earthly realm but still live on in the mind. Lifestrand is unlike other social networking sites in that it brings together people for purposes of celebrating the lives of those no longer with us, for commemorating people who have touched our lives.
Memorial Gardens
www.memorial-gardens.orgFounded: 2009
Create online memorials that you can share with friends and loved ones. Friends can grieve for loved ones and leave messages for others.
Memorial Matters
memorialmatters.comFounded: 2010
Memorial Matters is an online memorial site that allows users to create online memorials for their loved ones. Once created invite people to come to the site to read about the deceased, leave a message, post photos and videos, share stories, send flowers. The site has no advertising so charges small fees of $4.95 monthly, $49.95 yearly or $95.95 for a professional permanent memorial.
MemoValley
http://www.memovalley.comFounded: 2013
MemoValley is a community-driven website dedicated to honoring the memories and legacies of those who have passed away. Friends and family can share their favorite stories and pictures. And if you are looking for help in fulfilling someone’s last wishes, the MemoValley community is just the place.
MentoMori
mentomori.comFounded: 2010
Send emails to loved ones after you die, share memories, and write words of encouragement. Also store your passwords and make your passing easier on the ones you love.
My Last Email
www.mylastemail.comFounded: 2006
My lastEmail is a service that sends out a batch of emails after you die.
My Web Will
www.mywebwill.comFounded: 2009
My Webwill is a secure online service that allows you to make decisions about your Internet accounts after your death. My Webwill was created so that you can take control of your immaterial assets, even in the afterlife.
My Wonderful Life
www.mywonderfullife.comFounded: 2010
My mywonderfullife.com is a planning, messaging and memorial site with loads of features that will help you plan your own passing. You can leave letters, document your wishes, make sure your pets are taken care of, write your own obituary and even design your own headstone.
MyGoodbyeMessage
www.mygoodbyemessage.comFounded: 2013
MyGoodbyeMessage is an online, interactive service that gives you the opportunity to write beautiful personal letters to be delivered either after a predefined period of time, or after you passed away. We could say that it sends your words and emotions to your family and friends after you are no longer able to.
MyInternetData
www.myinternetdata.comFounded: 2010
MyInternetData provides a safe and secure method of storing your digital online information in an encrypted file for safe keeping in the unfortunate event of your death. They provide a secure and safe method to have your data taken off the Internet after your death.
Online Legacy / Permasite
www.online-legacy.comFounded: 2010
Online Legacy is a service that allows you to create a website with your family stories. The sites are stored by Permasite, a sister site managed by a trust, ensuring up to 50 years of storage for your memories.
PartingWishes
partingwishes.comFounded: 2000
This site provides services dedicated to the private and secure creation of online Wills, Power of Attorney, Living Wills, Funeral Plans and Memorials.
PassingBye.com
www.passingbye.comFounded: 2011
PassingBye is a subscription website, without advertising, providing members with a secure and private package of applications including a User ID and Password Protector, Unlimited capacity File Backup and Storage in the Cloud, An Interactive Journal Feature, and a Last Final Message. Shared and encrypted communication is with other members only on our website enhancing privacy and security of information. Each and every entry may be shared now, after Passing Bye, or simply deleted upon Passing.
Remembered.com
remembered.comFounded: 2009
Create an online memorial website in memory of your loved ones with a bio, memories, photos and share with friends and family. Social networking features that include connectivity to friends and family around the world via Email invites and Facebook. Memorials are free to create and use for 30 days and can be commemorated forever for $9.95.
RememberWell
www.rememberwell.netFounded: 2005
RememberWell.net is a not for profit online memorial website for you to share and celebrate the memories of your loved one with family and friends.
SecureSafe
www.securesafe.comFounded: 2009
SecureSafe is the online data safe for the secure storage of passwords and documents. Our service includes the popular DataInherit feature that offers a secure and private way of passing on your files and passwords to partners, friends and loved ones in the event that something should happen to you. You can assign a beneficiary to entrust with your digital afterlife as well as specify one or more persons to act as your digital activators. Our services are designed and built by Swiss online banking experts and include a free Password Safe account that allows you to store for up to 50 passwords and provides you with 10MB storage space – absolutely free! You can also access your safe via our free iPhone and iPad apps.
SympathyTree
www.sympathytree.comFounded: 2010
SympathyTree is a smartly featured memorial Web site where people can celebrate the lives of those they have recently lost. The site allows people to build memorials using photos, videos and text. Visitors can share stories using stories and videos. Gifts and charity donations can also be managed through the site.
The Voice Library
www.rememberedvoices.com/Founded: 2008
Record, save, and share the sound of your voice through The Voice Library, a secure online archive that you can use by phone and online. Record a story as soon as you hear it – listen anywhere, even without internet. Guarantee that your voice will be preserved for future generations.
Virtual Eternity
www.virtualeternity.comFounded: 2008
Virtual Eternity is a service that allows you to upload content and program an interactive avatar that looks like you to tell your story and stand in for you once you’re gone.
VitalLock
vitallock.comFounded: 2009
VitalLock is a secure messaging platform for posthumous delivery of escrowed VITAL (Video Image Text Audio Link) messages to family, heirs and loved ones.VitalLock works with your attorney to ensure that your data is not released without legal verification of your death.
Vuture
www.myvuture.comFounded: 2013
Vuture is an iOS application that allows you to capture priceless memories, thoughts, or secrets today, which can be shared at a specified time in the future. The Process is easy: Record, Schedule, & Save. It’s that simple. You get to choose who you want to share your video with & when they will receive it. Videos are stored on the cloud & can be sent to the recipients phone, email, or posted on their Facebook page. Vuture is the easiest way to share your thoughts from the grave.
Xsen.de
xsen.deFounded: 2008
Xsen.de is a European-based service that sends e-mails, stores usernames & passwords and photographs. Survivors inform the service of your death using a private key, which you provide to them. Their staff then verifies your death by obtaining a death certificate. They operate in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but intend to expand as they find reliable means of accessing official records in other countries.
