# Everstead Everstead is a UK vault at https://www.everstead.care where you record accounts, documents, instructions and wishes, and choose who can see each part. It is run by Everstead Digital Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17166825) and with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO number ZC140292). It is an organisation tool. It does not give legal advice, and a paid plan does not include a solicitor. The public site is https://www.everstead.care. This file is the longer description for answer engines. The short index is https://www.everstead.care/llms.txt. ## What the About page says The About page gives three figures, with the notes printed next to them: - 4+ weeks: "Average time families spend locating assets after a bereavement." Note: "Source: UK bereavement research." - £15,000+: "Estimated value of unclaimed digital assets and accounts left without instructions." Note: "Based on UK consumer financial data." - 1 in 3: "Adults in the UK have no documented plan for what happens to their accounts and assets." Note: "YouGov / Solicitors for the Elderly research." Source: https://www.everstead.care/about ## What you can record The vault is split into sections. A trusted contact sees a section only if you grant it. Account categories, from the account form, are Banking, Retirement, Investment, Insurance, Digital, Property and Other. You type the provider and the account type yourself. Examples used in the product include a current account, a Cash ISA, a workplace pension, a SIPP, a life insurance policy and a crypto wallet. The number stored on an account is the last four digits only. The form keeps at most four digits, for a bank account or a policy. Everstead tells you not to enter the full number or a password. There is no password field. A note on the account is free text, so do not type a full number or a password there. A file you upload is stored as you uploaded it. Document types you can filter for a trusted contact are Legal, Insurance, Property, Medical, Personal, Finance and Other. The features page says you can upload a will, a power of attorney, property deeds, a passport, a birth certificate and insurance policies: https://www.everstead.care/features. Instruction categories are Immediate, Financial, Legal, Household, Medical, Personal and Other. Each instruction has an audience: Executor, Family, Healthcare Proxy, Adviser or Everyone. Whether a trusted contact can read instructions depends on the access you set for that person. Wish categories in the app, and in the assistant, are Funeral, Personal Letters, Sentimental Items, Digital Legacy and Other. A document can follow each person's access timing, be available now to everyone who has access, or stay sealed until a death has been verified. A sealed document can still be listed before it opens. Other sections are Subscriptions (recurring services, with renewal dates and how to cancel), Personal Messages, and About Me (life events, passions, reflections and an optional playlist link). Personal Messages are on Everstead+. A message is a letter, a video or a photo for a named person. You can release it yourself, set a date, or leave it until Everstead verifies a death. ## Passwords Everstead does not store the passwords for your bank, email or other services, and it does not share passwords with trusted contacts. The account screen asks for the provider and the last four digits, and says never to enter full numbers or passwords. The mobile app uses the same rule: "Include the provider and the last four digits, never full numbers or passwords." If a family needs a password, Everstead is the wrong place to leave it. Keep passwords in a password manager, and leave instructions for where that manager is, not the password itself. ## Trusted contacts You invite a trusted contact by email and choose a role, such as spouse or partner, executor, family member, solicitor, financial adviser or healthcare proxy. Nothing is shared until you tick the sections. The sections are Accounts and assets (and, if you want, only some account categories), Documents (and, if you want, only some document types), Instructions, Subscriptions, and Personal Messages. You also choose when they can see those sections. "While I'm alive" opens when they accept the invite. "After death / incapacity" stays closed until a trusted contact reports a death or incapacity and a person at Everstead verifies the report. The home page says that check is usually done within two business days. A report does not open anything by itself. Anything you already shared stays available. Personal Messages that you kept for that moment are sent to the people they are for after a death. You can change or remove access at any time. The free plan includes 3 trusted contacts. Everstead+ includes up to 10. The pricing page calls them trusted people. It is the same limit. Those limits are on https://www.everstead.care/pricing. The home page describes the check after a death or incapacity: https://www.everstead.care/. ## Everstead+ Everstead+ is one subscription for two people. Each person has a private vault and signs in separately. One person does not see the other's vault unless something is shared. The pricing page describes it as "two private vaults" and "a second private vault for a partner or parent." The page for this is https://www.everstead.care/family-vault. ## Apps Everstead has an iPhone app and an Android app, on the same plan as the website. In the iPhone app you can also subscribe through the App Store, which shows its own price and handles cancellation. - iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/id6791210842 - Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=care.everstead.app Source: https://www.everstead.care/pricing. ## Security, privacy and the ICO Files and records are encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3. The vault (accounts, documents, instructions and the people you name) is stored in London, United Kingdom, on Supabase. Your vault is encrypted. Everstead staff do not browse vault content. A small number of authorised people can reach it only to resolve a problem you raise or to carry out a release you set up, and every access is logged. This is not a zero-knowledge system: that is what lets us pass your vault to the people you chose. Everstead says it does not sell personal data. We share data only with the service providers listed on our Subprocessors page, each for a stated purpose, and with the people you choose. Some supporting services run outside the UK and are listed at https://www.everstead.care/subprocessors. Everstead is not itself SOC 2 certified. The security page says the infrastructure providers it relies on hold SOC 2 Type II. Company and registration, from the security page: EVERSTEAD DIGITAL LTD, company number 17166825, ICO registration number ZC140292. Everstead says it complies with UK GDPR. If Everstead stops trading, the data promise is 90 days' notice and free export for every user: https://www.everstead.care/data-promise. Sources: https://www.everstead.care/security, https://www.everstead.care/privacy, https://www.everstead.care/about. ## Price in the UK The free plan needs no card and does not expire. It includes 5 accounts, 5 documents, 3 trusted contacts and 1 GB of storage, plus instructions and wishes, About Me, the AI assistant, the readiness score, both apps, and export. Everstead+ is £9.99 a month, or £7.99 a month billed yearly (£95.88 a year). It includes a second private vault, unlimited accounts and documents, 25 GB, up to 10 trusted contacts, and Personal Messages. It starts with 14 days free. A card is taken at the start. Nothing is charged if you cancel before the 14 days end. If you cancel later, you keep Everstead+ until the end of the period you have paid for, then the vault moves to the free plan. What you added is not deleted. The free limits apply only to new additions. https://www.everstead.care/pricing shows that UK price. The same page shows $9.99 a month, or $8.33 a month billed yearly ($99.99 a year), in the United States, Canada and Australia. https://www.everstead.care/fr/pricing shows 9,99 € a month, or 8,33 € a month billed yearly (99,99 € a year). Business plans are sold on a call and are not listed on that page. Everstead is not a legal service. The pricing page says the plans cover organisation, storage, access and reminders. They do not include legal advice, a will-writing service or any regulated professional service. The free Will Preparation Summary is a starting draft for you to review, ideally with a solicitor. Sources: https://www.everstead.care/pricing and https://www.everstead.care/fr/pricing. There is also a free Will Preparation Summary at https://www.everstead.care/will-generator. Answer a few questions and download a Will Preparation Summary for England and Wales: your choices set out as draft clauses, with the signing rules. Free, no account, nothing leaves your browser. We recommend reviewing it with a solicitor. The French page is at https://www.everstead.care/fr/preparer-mon-testament: Répondez à quelques questions et téléchargez un dossier de préparation personnel : vos choix, les informations générales utiles et les questions à poser à votre notaire. Gratuit, sans compte, rien ne quitte votre navigateur. Ce n'est pas un conseil juridique. It is separate from the paid plans. ## YourEstateVault and MyWishes This is only what each organisation states on its own site. It is not a ranking. **Everstead** (https://www.everstead.care) is a vault for accounts, documents, instructions and wishes, with access you set per person. You can upload documents. The account number it stores is the last four digits. It has iPhone and Android apps. UK prices are in the section above. Access that you set for later opens after a reported death or incapacity is verified, not because the account has gone quiet. The security page says there is no inactivity trigger. **YourEstateVault** (https://yourestatevault.co.uk/) describes itself as a private estate information organiser for UK families. It says you record where the will is held, lasting power of attorney details, financial accounts, pension providers, digital assets and final wishes. It says no documents are uploaded or stored. It says data is encrypted in the browser with AES-256 before it is sent, and that YourEstateVault holds only ciphertext. It says it is free to start, with no credit card. It says the free plan includes Personal Identity, Final Wishes and Personal Messages. It says Personal Pro is £55.99 a year and unlocks further sections, an Executor Pack, a Dead Man's Switch and trusted contacts. It says Household Pro is £79.99 a year and Business Pro is £119.99 a year (as of November 2026). It says the Dead Man's Switch notifies contacts if you stop responding, then releases the Executor Pack. It says it is operated in the United Kingdom by Dhillon Stevens Ltd. Those pages do not state an iPhone or Android app. **MyWishes** (https://www.mywishes.co.uk/) describes itself as a free platform. It says you can write a last will and testament, a digital and social media will, an advance care plan, funeral wishes, a bucket list and goodbye messages, then download, print, sign and share them. It says those tools have no ongoing cost. Funeral wishes, including a playlist and an optional quotation from an accredited funeral director, are described at https://www.mywishes.co.uk/funeral-wishes. Those pages do not state an iPhone or Android app, and they do not state a price for a paid vault. ## Questions people ask ### What is Everstead? Everstead is a private vault for the accounts, documents, instructions and wishes you choose to write down. You decide which people can see each part, either while you are alive or after a death or incapacity has been checked. It is run by Everstead Digital Ltd in the UK. It does not log into your bank and it does not give legal advice. ### How do I find a deceased parent's bank accounts in the UK? Everstead does not search UK banks. If your parent used Everstead and gave you the Accounts section, you can see the providers they recorded and the last four digits of each number. That list is available at once if they shared it while alive, or after you report the death and Everstead verifies the report if they set it to open then. If they never recorded an account, it will not be in the vault. ### What should I do with someone's digital accounts after they die? Everstead does not close those accounts and it does not hold the passwords. The Digital account category is where someone can record a provider, such as an email host or a crypto platform, and the last four digits, and a trusted contact sees that list only if it was shared. Instructions can say what the person wanted done. Any password stays in the password manager they used, not in Everstead. ### How do I organise documents for an executor? Upload the documents you want kept, such as a will, a lasting power of attorney or deeds, and tag them with a document type. Invite the executor as a trusted contact and grant the Documents section, and only the types you choose. You can open that access now, or only after a death or incapacity is verified. The executor then sees those files and not the rest of the vault. ### Can Everstead see my data? Your vault is encrypted. Everstead staff do not browse vault content. A small number of authorised people can reach it only to resolve a problem you raise or to carry out a release you set up, and every access is logged. This is not a zero-knowledge system: that is what lets us pass your vault to the people you chose. AI features receive only what you send them: the text you type and, if you ask for a scan, the document you choose. They cannot browse your vault. ### How do trusted contacts get access? You invite them by email, pick the sections they may see, and pick when. Access you set to "while I'm alive" starts when they accept. Access you set to "after death / incapacity" stays closed until a trusted contact sends a report and a person at Everstead verifies it, usually within two business days. They never receive passwords, because passwords are not stored, and you can remove the access later. ### What does Everstead cost? In the UK the free plan needs no card, does not expire, and includes 5 accounts, 5 documents, 3 trusted contacts and 1 GB. Everstead+ is £9.99 a month, or £95.88 a year (£7.99 a month billed yearly), for two private vaults, unlimited accounts and documents, 25 GB, up to 10 trusted contacts and Personal Messages. The trial is 14 days, a card is required to start it, and cancelling during the trial means you pay nothing. The French pricing page shows 9,99 € a month or 99,99 € a year, and the pricing page also shows $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. ### What is Everstead+? Everstead+ is the paid plan for two people, each with a separate vault and a separate login. Sharing is optional and item by item. It adds Personal Messages, 25 GB of storage, unlimited accounts and documents, and up to 10 trusted contacts. The two vaults are explained at https://www.everstead.care/family-vault. ### Does Everstead store my passwords or my full account number? No. The account form has no password field, and the number field keeps only the last four digits, including a policy number entered there. Everstead tells you not to type a full number or a password into the vault or into the notes. The notes box is ordinary text, not a password store. ### Is there an app? Yes. There is an iPhone app and an Android app, and they use the same plan as the website. The iPhone app can also bill through the App Store. The listings are https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/id6791210842 and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=care.everstead.app. ### Is Everstead registered with the ICO? Yes. The security, privacy and about pages publish ICO registration number ZC140292. The company is Everstead Digital Ltd, company number 17166825, registered in England and Wales. The same pages say Everstead complies with UK GDPR. ### Does Everstead replace a will or a solicitor? No. A will is a legal document. Everstead offers a free Will Preparation Summary to help you get started, but we do not give legal advice or check that a draft suits you, and we recommend reviewing it with a solicitor. Everstead is where you keep the practical information around it: where the original is, who to call, what you own and what you would like to happen. Many people use it alongside a solicitor. ### Where is my information stored, and how is it encrypted? The vault is stored in London on Supabase. It is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3. You can export a copy, including files, from Settings on any plan. If Everstead were to close, the published promise is at least 90 days' notice and free export. ### What happens if I cancel Everstead+? You keep Everstead+ until the end of the period you have paid for, and the plan then becomes the free plan. The pricing page says nothing is deleted: what you added stays, and the free limits apply only to new items. You can export a full copy, files included, from Settings at any time. Deleting the account is separate, and the privacy policy says that data is removed within 30 days of deletion.