Meet Lifefile — What your family needs to find

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Lifefile

What your family needs to find.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

What Lifefile does

Lifefile is the offline document where you write down — once — what your family will need to know if something happens to you. Where the will is. Who the attorney is. Funeral preferences. Important phone numbers. Account inventory (just the names, never the passwords).

It's the conversation you keep meaning to have, made into a checklist you can finish in one sitting. And unlike Everplans or Myend, it never leaves your phone.

What ships in v1:

— Sections by life-domain: Documents (where the will/trust/POA lives), People (attorney, doctor, executor, next of kin with phone), Accounts (banks, brokerage, retirement — names of institutions and account-purpose, never credentials), Insurance (life/health/property — policy numbers and contacts), Wishes (funeral preferences, organ donation, faith tradition, music, who-not-to-invite), Digital (what to do with email/social — instructions, not passwords), Pets (vet, daily routine, who takes them). — Guided prompts. Each section has plain-language questions so you fill it in like a conversation. — Face ID app lock. Sensitive content stays sensitive. — Family-letter PDF. One-tap export to a clean, formatted PDF — give a sealed printout to your executor and tell them where it is. The point is to be findable on paper. — Last-updated banner. Gentle reminder if a section hasn't been touched in 12 months. — No account, no ads, no subscription, no cloud. Your wishes never sit on a vendor's server.

For the millions of US adults who know they should write this down but haven't. Especially the parents of young children, the recently-bereaved, and anyone over 50.

A look inside

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What's inside

Sections — Documents / People / Accounts / Insurance / Wishes / Digital / Pets
Prompts — Plain-language questions per section, answer at your pace
App lock — Face ID / passcode on the whole document
Family-letter PDF — One-tap export — clean, printable, sealable
Reminders — Last-updated banner; nudge to review annually

Why we built it

Adults know they should document where the will is, who the executor is, and their final wishes — but the cloud services (Everplans, Myend, Life Safe Legacy) require trusting a vendor with the most sensitive document a household keeps, and they often have subscription pricing on top.

What makes it different

Lifefile is the only iOS end-of-life document that keeps everything 100% on-device with Face ID lock and exports a clean family-letter PDF — by design, never on a vendor's server — Everplans is a 'digital vault' cloud-account service, Myend offers cloud + in-app messaging (subscription), Life Safe Legacy gives 'truste…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their gear, and their offline life.

In one line: What your family needs to find.

Try it

See the Lifefile app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

Use Lifefile, found a bug, or have a feature request? Comments are open below — anonymous is fine.