What it costs
Free is a real version, not a trial. Paid removes the limits and is priced at whatever you think it is worth.
Free
Nothing
- 5 people you can write to
- 10 messages — letters and practical notes together
- 1 keeper who can open it for you
- The check-in timer
- Releasing one person at a time
- The delayed opening emails
- Hand-written translations
For as long as this exists
Pay what you want
from $1.00, once
- Unlimited people
- Unlimited letters and notes
- Unlimited keepers
- Everything in free, which is already everything that matters
Why there is no subscription
Because the failure mode is unconscionable.
A subscription means a card expires, a payment fails, and a service somewhere deletes a dead man’s letters to his children. The one person who could have updated that card is the one who died. No amount of dunning email fixes it, because there is nobody left to read the dunning email.
So it is paid once. Whatever you pay covers you for as long as this service exists, and if it ever stops existing you will get everything back before it does — see the terms, where that promise is written down properly rather than implied here.
Why the free tier keeps everything important
The free tier limits volume — how many people, how many messages. It does not limit whether any of it gets delivered.
The timer, the keeper, the delayed emails, the per-person release: these are the parts that decide whether what you wrote reaches anybody at all. Putting them behind a payment would mean somebody’s letters going undelivered over a dollar, which is not a business we want to be in.
The limits apply when you are writing, and only then. If you fill the free tier and then die, every word of it is released exactly as if you had paid.
A dollar is a real answer
The minimum is $1.00 and it is not a trick. If a dollar is what this is worth to you, or a dollar is what you have, pay a dollar. Nothing about the product changes.
People who pay more are paying for somebody else’s dollar, and for the hosting bill in fifteen years. That is the whole model.