Looking for a GoodTrust alternative? It depends on what you want to preserve.
GoodTrust helps you plan your estate and tidy up your online accounts after death. Afterlife AI™ does a different job: it preserves who you are, a consent-based, interactive Persona, governed by Executor Lock™. Many people use both.
If you searched for a GoodTrust alternative, it helps to be precise about what you actually want, because GoodTrust and Afterlife AI™ solve genuinely different problems. We will be straight with you about that, including the things Afterlife AI™ does not do.
GoodTrust is a US digital estate-planning service. It helps you create legal documents (wills, a revocable living trust, and directives such as power of attorney and an advance medical directive), store them in a Digital Vault alongside details of your online accounts, and arrange for someone to manage or close those accounts after you pass. Afterlife AI™ is not an estate-planning tool. It preserves the person: your memories, your way of speaking, and an interactive Persona your family can talk with for life.
Different jobs: estate admin vs preserving you
GoodTrust answers the question "what happens to my assets, documents and accounts when I die?" According to its own site and independent reviews, GoodTrust lets you build an attorney-reviewed estate plan in around twenty minutes, keep documents and account details in a secure Digital Vault, and record video messages or write emails to be delivered later. On its paid plans, GoodTrust can act as a digital executor: using power of attorney and the documentation each platform requires, it can memorialise social accounts, secure photos, stop subscriptions and close down accounts your family no longer needs, across more than 100 popular sites. Notably, GoodTrust says it does not need the deceased's passwords and does not access account content.
Afterlife AI™ answers a completely different question: "how does the actual person, the way they think, talk and tell a story, stay reachable for the people who love them?" That is not a document or an account-closing service. It is a living, consent-based Persona of you, built while you are alive.
To be clear and honest: Afterlife AI™ does not write wills or trusts, does not provide legal advice, and does not close or memorialise your online accounts. If those are your needs, a dedicated estate tool like GoodTrust (or your own attorney) is the right place. Afterlife AI™ complements that work by preserving who you are.
How Afterlife AI compares
Where GoodTrust organises the paperwork of your death, Afterlife AI™ preserves the presence of your life. The differentiators are specific:
A consent-based Persona, built while alive. You record memories and have conversations that shape an interactive Persona of you. Your family does not read a static file; they ask, and the Persona responds in your stories, values and voice-of-mind.
Executor Lock™ governance. You decide, in advance and while alive, that your Persona may be played back after death. That consent is locked at Executor Lock™ and never changed after you are gone. Authority transitions to the people you named; your Persona cannot be quietly rewritten or repurposed.
Consent-based voice preservation. You can preserve your own voice, with your explicit consent, while you are alive, including consent for posthumous playback. Creating your voice is free for everyone; listening is the paid experience on Legacy. This is governed, consent-based voice preservation that you set up yourself, never a scraped or fabricated copy.
A genuinely free build that never expires. Start with a one-time build budget of 60 memories and 100 conversations to build your Persona, plus 1 Trusted Contact and Executor Lock™ setup. No card, no time limit. It is not a trial.
Australian company, Australian-hosted. Afterlife AI™ is built by IDY™, an Australian company, and your data is hosted in Australia. Your Persona and voice are treated as the sensitive personal information they are under Australian privacy law.
Who each is best for (and why many people use both)
Choose GoodTrust, or a comparable estate tool, if your priority is the legal and administrative side: getting a will or trust in place, organising account details in a vault, and arranging for accounts to be memorialised or closed after death.
Choose Afterlife AI™ if your priority is the person: making sure your grandchild can ask you a question in 2045 and hear an answer in your own way, under consent you set and locked yourself.
Honestly, these are not rivals so much as two halves of preparing well. A thorough plan often includes both: an estate tool to settle the paperwork and accounts, and Afterlife AI™ to preserve the human being behind them. Using one does not replace the other.
What it costs to start
Afterlife AI™ public pricing is three tiers only:
Free: your one-time build budget of 60 memories and 100 conversations, 1 Trusted Contact, and Executor Lock™ setup. No card. Your free build never expires.
Legacy: $14.99/mo, which is where listening to preserved voice lives. Your family inherits the time you have paid for.
Eternal: $29.99/mo for the fullest ongoing experience.
For GoodTrust's current pricing, check its official site directly. Independent reviews and its own pages have described a free will tool plus a paid estate plan (around $149 for the first year, with a lower annual renewal to keep editing) and account-closing handled on higher tiers. Prices change, so verify before you buy.