Afterlife AI Pricing: The Free Build Is the Product, and Paying Buys What Lasts

Afterlife AI costs nothing to build and $14.99 or $29.99 a month to deepen. Those are the only three public plans, the prices are in US dollars, and the live pricing page is the source for every figure below, read on 6 September 2026.

A memory is one thing you told your Persona that your Persona keeps and can draw on later: a story, a rule you live by, what you would say at a wedding you might miss. Fifty is the free build. Five hundred is a serious portrait. Unlimited is for a person who intends to keep talking for years.

A Trusted Contact is a person you nominate while alive who can be given access to your Persona on terms you set, and who can confirm your death when the time comes. One Trusted Contact on the free plan is enough to make Executor Lock work. Five on Eternal is a family.

The table does not show where you buy. The app is free on the Apple App Store, listed by Idy Pty Ltd with Legacy and Eternal as the in-app purchases, and the web app at app.afterlife.ai carries the same plans.

Three plans, in US dollars, and the first costs nothing while you live.

Yes, Afterlife AI is free to build, and the free plan does not expire. The pricing page says it in one sentence: "Your Free plan never expires."

The free build is a one-time budget of 50 memories, not a monthly allowance and not a countdown. Record ten this week and the remaining forty are yours in three years. The Trusted Contact you nominate and the Executor Lock you set up are kept.

In practice, never expires means three things. Your Persona stays reachable for as long as you are alive, whether or not you ever pay. What you have recorded is not removed because time went by; the only removal on our trust page is the one you ask for, the right to forget. And when you die, the free Persona is locked and released to your family under the rules you set, the same as a paid one.

I will concede what 50 is. Fifty memories is a beginning, not a life. The first hour usually goes to the obvious things: parents, the town, the job, the marriage. The paid plans exist for the second hour, and the tenth.

Free means free for life, and your life is the only clock on it.

Because the recording is the part that cannot be done later. Every plan, including Free, lets you record your voice, and the first listen is free. Hearing your Persona speak in your voice on an ongoing basis is on Legacy and Eternal.

Voice preservation is recording your own voice while you are alive, with consent that covers your family hearing that voice after your death. The recording is a consented act by a living person, and I do not want money standing between a person and that act. If your mother is eighty-four and willing to record this afternoon, the plan she is on should be irrelevant to whether the recording happens.

Listening is the part that scales. Synthesis costs us money each time your Persona speaks, and a family that wants to hear a voice every Sunday for a decade is asking for something a free tier cannot carry. So the Free plan proves the voice with one real listen, and the paid plans carry the voice after that. Legacy is the plan for hearing your Persona in your voice. Eternal removes the limits.

I will concede the edge of this. A creator who stays on Free leaves a family a voice they can hear once, and the family activates a plan if they want more. The recording is safe either way; we do not delete a voice because a card was never entered.

The recording is the irreplaceable part, so we do not charge for it.

Executor Lock activates on the same terms whatever plan you are on, and, as the services page puts it, the family inherits the time you have paid for.

Executor Lock is the process by which your nominated Trusted Contact confirms your death with documentary evidence, after a verification window, and your Persona is locked as a perfect snapshot: nothing added, no retraining, no drift. After the lock, your Persona is read-only. The Executor enforces the rules you set while alive and cannot rewrite them. The full mechanism is on the Executor Lock page.

Plan by plan. On Free, your Persona is locked as built, with 50 memories, and released to the people you named after your Executor Lock activates; your family gets the free first listen of your voice. On Legacy, the same lock applies to a Persona of up to 500 memories, and the months you have paid for pass to your family, with your voice available for that time. On Eternal, the lock applies to an unlimited Persona, five Trusted Contacts meet your Persona under your release rules, and the paid time passes across the same way. When inherited time ends, what remains is the free build, which never expires.

Nothing here is sent on a date. Your family is released access after your Executor Lock activates, and only then. The Executor Lock Agreement also commits us to at least 12 months' notice to your Executor and a full data export if the platform were ever discontinued.

Your plan decides the depth. The lock decides that your Persona stays you.

Start building your legacy Free build, 50 memories, no card required.

Yes. A gift of 12 months of Legacy costs $89.99 as a single payment, and the gift page says the rest in four words: "One payment, no auto-renew." That figure is what we charge as of 6 September 2026.

The gift is bought at app.afterlife.ai/gift without an account. You answer a few questions, who the gift is for and what they call you, what you want kept, the story they always tell, and a message to open the gift with. A code is emailed to you. The recipient redeems the code, and the first thing they see is your name and your message, before anything else.

The point of the design is consent, which is why the digital legacy gift is the fourth way to pay and not a way around the other three. The giver never gets access to what the recipient records. The recipient holds the pen, nominates their own Trusted Contact, and sets their own release rules. A daughter can pay for her mother. She cannot read her mother.

I will concede the oddness. A subscription is a strange thing to wrap, which is why the gift is one payment for a year and then stops, and why the recipient's free build remains theirs after the year ends.

You pay for the year. They decide everything else.

Stay free if this is your first build, you are under no time pressure, and what you want is to be asked good questions and answer them. Pay for Legacy when the 50 memories are spent and you want your family to hear your voice. Pay for Eternal when you are building for a whole family rather than for yourself.

The 50 free memories are enough to leave a real Persona. The 500 on Legacy are enough to answer the question your child will ask at thirty, and the Legacy voice makes the answer sound like you. Eternal is for the person with five people to name, decades of stories, and a wish to plan the family's access deliberately.

Prices elsewhere, read today. As of 6 September 2026, StoryWorth starts at $59 for a year of weekly questions and one hardcover book. That is cheaper than a year of Legacy and ends with an object you can hold, which we do not give you. StoryWorth does not preserve your voice or build a Persona, and nothing in the product governs what happens after your death. Uare.ai, the company formerly called Eternos, which TechCrunch reported rebranding on 11 November 2025, lists Free, Basic at $9.99 a month, Premium at $24.99 a month and Professional at $199.99 a month. Uare.ai's entry paid tier is cheaper than ours, and Uare.ai has apps for iOS and Android. The positioning is professional, and the pricing page makes no mention of death or legacy.

Two limits on our side belong here. Afterlife AI is on the Apple App Store, on Android and on the web; the iPhone app leads on features, and the Android app does not yet have everything the iPhone app has. And no one under 18, or the local age of majority, can build a Persona: adults only, with no exception for a parent present.

Pay when you have more to say, and not before.

We do not sell your data, and we do not sell your attention. The privacy policy puts both in one section: "We do not sell, rent, or licence your personal data," and "We do not use your data for advertising or profiling." The trust page adds that we do not use your data to train general AI models.

That matters on a pricing page because the other business model in this category is engagement. A service that is free and makes money on attention needs your family to keep coming back, and a grieving family is the easiest audience in the world to keep. Our income is the three plans and the gift. Payment details are handled by Stripe and never stored by us.

Two more things the price does not touch. You can export your written data and memories as a structured file at any time; the privacy policy calls this receiving your data in portable format. Media portability, meaning your voice recordings, is a commitment we are working toward and not a feature I will sell you today. And you can delete everything, with the deletion processed within 30 days including backups.

The company behind the plans is Idy Pty Ltd in Sydney, with Australian-hosted data, ranked second among Australian patent filers in the IP Australia 2026 report as stated on our about page. To test any of this without paying: build free, export, delete, and see what you are left holding. The page on whether Afterlife AI is legit walks through the checks.

The price on the page is the whole price.

Is Afterlife AI free?

Yes. The Free plan gives you 50 memories to build your Persona, voice recording with a free first listen, Executor Lock setup and one Trusted Contact, with no card and no expiry. That is not a sample of the product; a Persona built on the free plan is locked at your death and released to your family under your rules exactly as a paid one is. The paid plans, Legacy at $14.99 a month and Eternal at $29.99 a month, add memories, your Persona speaking in your own voice, storage and more Trusted Contacts.

How much does Afterlife AI cost per month?

Legacy costs $14.99 a month and Eternal costs $29.99 a month, in US dollars, and the Free plan costs nothing for as long as you live. Legacy brings 500 memories, your Persona in your voice, 1 GB of storage, two Trusted Contacts and priority support. Eternal brings unlimited memories and storage, your voice without limits, five Trusted Contacts, family legacy planning and dedicated priority support. The same two plans are the in-app purchases on the Apple App Store. There is also a one-time gift of 12 months of Legacy for $89.99 that never auto-renews.

What happens to my Persona if I stop paying?

You can stop paying at any time and your free build stays. The pricing page states that the Free plan never expires, and the only removal described on our trust page is the one you ask for yourself, the right to forget. What you recorded is not deleted because a card lapsed. Your Trusted Contact and your Executor Lock setup are kept. If you want the paid features back, hearing your Persona in your voice and the larger memory budget, you upgrade again when you are ready.

Can my family keep using it after I die?

Yes, under the rules you set while alive, and only after your Executor Lock activates. Your nominated Trusted Contact confirms your death with documentary evidence, a verification window passes, and your Persona is locked as a perfect snapshot with nothing added and no retraining. Your family then meets your Persona under your release rules. If you were paying, your family inherits the time you have paid for, including hearing your voice for that time. If you were on Free, your family meets the free Persona and gets the free first listen. When inherited time ends, the free build remains.

Is there a lifetime plan?

The public plans are three: Free, Legacy at $14.99 a month and Eternal at $29.99 a month. There is no lifetime plan on the pricing page. If you are thinking in decades rather than months, the pricing page carries one line about long-term options, and that conversation starts with us directly rather than with a card. Be wary of any service in this category that sells a lifetime up front and cannot show you an export.

Does the free plan expire?

No. The Free plan is a one-time build budget of 50 memories, not a subscription, and there is no card on file to lapse. You can record the 50 in one weekend or across five years. Your recorded voice, your Trusted Contact and your Executor Lock setup are kept alongside. When you die, the free Persona is locked and released to your family in the same way a paid one is, with the first listen of your voice free. The pricing page states the policy in two words: never expires.

• How Afterlife AI works: the sequence from first screen to Executor Lock, in steps.

• The Afterlife AI app: where to get it, and what to do on your phone versus the web.

• Gift a digital legacy: the $89.99 year, how it is bought and how it is redeemed.

• Executor Lock: what locks, who confirms, and what your family can and cannot do.

• Is Afterlife AI legit: every claim on this page with the link to check it.

1. Afterlife AI, Plans and pricing, read 6 September 2026: the three plans and every feature in the table above.

2. Afterlife AI, AI Persona and digital legacy service, read 6 September 2026.

3. Afterlife AI, Trust is our foundation, read 6 September 2026.

4. Afterlife AI, Privacy policy, read 6 September 2026: no sale of personal data, no advertising or profiling, portable export, deletion within 30 days, users 18 and over.

5. Afterlife AI, About us, read 6 September 2026.

6. Afterlife AI, Gift a year of their story, read 6 September 2026: "One payment, no auto-renew"; the Executor Lock Agreement's continuity clause.

7. Apple App Store, Afterlife AI: Digital Legacy App, read 6 September 2026: developer Idy Pty Ltd, free with in-app purchases.

8. StoryWorth, welcome page, read 6 September 2026: starting at $59.

9. Uare.ai, Pricing, read 6 September 2026: Free, Basic $9.99, Premium $24.99, Professional $199.99 a month; iOS and Android apps listed on the home page.

10. TechCrunch, Immortality startup Eternos nabs $10.3M, pivots to personal AI that sounds like you, 11 November 2025.

Chris Williams is the founder and CEO of Afterlife AI, a consumer brand of Idy Pty Ltd in Sydney, and the architect of Executor Lock, the process that locks a Persona as a perfect snapshot at verified death. He is a father of four. He has been interviewed on consent-first digital legacy by EL MUNDO, Channel 10 News, The Daily Telegraph and ABC radio. Before Afterlife AI he founded Natural Solar, an Australian solar energy company.