Looking for a Trust & Will alternative? Read this first.
Trust & Will writes your legal estate documents. Afterlife AI™ preserves the person behind them: your memories, your voice, and a consent-based Persona your family can talk to. They do different jobs, and they pair well.
If you searched for a "Trust and Will alternative," we will be straight from the first line: Afterlife AI is not a replacement for Trust & Will. This page is published by Afterlife AI, and the most useful thing we can do is tell you what each product does so you can decide what you need.
Trust & Will is a US online estate-planning service. It helps you create legally valid estate documents through a self-guided process, with plans built by attorneys and tailored to your state. Per its published materials and independent reviews, it offers a Guardian product for naming guardians for your children (and pets), a Will plan, and a Trust plan, with documents such as a power of attorney, HIPAA authorisation, and an advance healthcare directive commonly included. It is genuinely good at one thing: turning your wishes into enforceable legal paperwork.
Afterlife AI does a completely different job. We do not write wills, create trusts, or give legal advice. We preserve you, the person, so the people you love can still hear you, remember you in your own words, and talk with a Persona built from what you chose to share.
Legal documents vs preserving you
This is the heart of the comparison, so we will keep it plain.
Trust & Will produces legal estate documents. A will, a trust, guardianship nominations, and related directives. These instruments decide who receives your assets, who cares for your children, and who has authority when you cannot act. They carry legal weight.
Afterlife AI preserves the human being. Your stories, your character, your voice, and an interactive Persona. None of this distributes property or holds legal authority. It exists so your family does not lose the texture of who you were.
Put simply: a will answers "who gets what." Afterlife AI answers "what were they like, and what would they have said." A document cannot tell your grandchild a bedtime story in your voice. A Persona cannot probate an estate. Neither replaces the other.
To be especially clear: nothing on Afterlife AI is a substitute for a will or trust. If you need your wishes enforced, you need real legal documents. That is exactly the work Trust & Will, or an estate attorney, is built for.
How Afterlife AI fits alongside a will
Think of your estate plan as two halves. One half is legal and financial: the paperwork that settles your affairs. The other half is human: the memories and presence no document can capture. Most people only ever address the first half, because until recently the second had no tool. Here is how Afterlife AI™ complements the legal work you do with Trust & Will:
You build a consent-based Persona while you are alive. It is shaped entirely from memories and conversations you choose to contribute. Nothing is invented, and nothing is taken without your participation.
Executor Lock™ governs what happens after you die. While living, you record your consent, including explicit consent for posthumous playback of your Persona and voice. At Executor Lock™ those choices are locked and never changed after death. It is the human-side counterpart to naming an executor.
Consent-based voice preservation. You can preserve your own voice, with your consent, while you are alive, and that consent explicitly covers playback after you are gone. It is governed, not a generic voice tool, and your voice is treated as sensitive personal information.
Australian-hosted and privacy-minded. Afterlife AI is an Australian company and your content is Australian-hosted, another reason it sits beside a US estate service rather than competing.
A practical pairing: use Trust & Will or a lawyer for the will, trust and guardianship paperwork, and use Afterlife AI to preserve your memories, voice and Persona, so the family who inherits those documents also inherits you.
Who each one suits
Choose Trust & Will (or an estate attorney) if you need:
A legally valid will or living trust
Guardianship nominations for children or pets
Power of attorney, HIPAA authorisation, or an advance healthcare directive
Attorney-built, state-specific US documents
Choose Afterlife AI if you want:
To preserve your memories and life story in your own words
A consent-based, interactive Persona your family can talk with
Consent-based voice preservation, with consent that covers posthumous playback
Governance you control through Executor Lock™, locked once set
Most people benefit from both. The paperwork protects your assets and dependents. Afterlife AI protects your presence.
Pricing
Afterlife AI is built free-first. You start with a one-time build budget, not a monthly allowance and not a trial: 60 memories and 100 conversations to build your Persona, free, with no card and no time limit. Your free build never expires, and it includes 1 Trusted Contact and Executor Lock™ setup, free and kept.
Free: the free build above, no card needed.
Legacy at $14.99/mo: more room to preserve, plus the paid listening experience for your family.
Eternal at $29.99/mo: the fullest preservation tier.
The voice is created free for everyone. The ongoing listening experience is the paid part, from the Legacy tier, and a family inherits the time you have paid for. If a Free creator passes, their family gets one real first listen, then one member can activate for everyone.
For reference only, per its published materials and independent reviews, Trust & Will's pricing has commonly been around $39 for Guardian (individual), roughly $199 for an individual Will plan, and roughly $499 for an individual Trust plan, with couple pricing higher, a modest annual membership after year one, and optional attorney support in supported states. Confirm current figures on Trust & Will's own site.
Frequently asked questions
Is Afterlife AI a replacement for Trust & Will?
No. Trust & Will creates legal estate documents such as wills and trusts. Afterlife AI does not write wills, create trusts, or give legal advice. We preserve your memories, voice and Persona. The two are complements, not substitutes.
Can Afterlife AI write my will or give legal advice?
No. We do not produce legal documents and we are not a law firm. For a will, trust, guardianship nomination or healthcare directive, use a service like Trust & Will or a qualified estate attorney.
Can I use both Trust & Will and Afterlife AI?
Yes, and many people will. Use Trust & Will or a lawyer for the legal paperwork, and Afterlife AI to preserve the person those documents are about. See more questions below.