Short answers to the questions people ask most.

About five quiet minutes. The wizard asks who you would want reading this, where you keep important documents, and the few accounts that would matter most. You can stop at any point and come back; nothing requires a single sitting.

No. A binder with three or four sections is already more than most households leave behind. Each section shows its own status, Missing, Partial, or Current, so you always know what is worth coming back to next, without anything nagging.

Every entry as you type it. There is no "save" button. If your connection drops mid-sentence, the next time you open Afterward your draft is waiting where you left it.

Not yet. Afterward is a write-it-once, read-it-when-needed surface, not a password vault. We deliberately do not import bulk credential exports. The binder is meant to point a trusted person to the right places, not to become another copy of your secrets. The three most important keys go into sealed envelopes; everything else is described, not stored.

The web app works on every phone and tablet. A native iOS app is coming in a later wave, a few months after the web release. The work you do today moves over with you when it ships.

A short piece of writing that is locked on your device before it ever reaches us, and addressed to one specific person you name. It opens through the sealed-envelope release path, which is not available yet.

We hold the locked version. We cannot open it. We cannot read it. The metaphor is literal: a sealed envelope handed to a named recipient.

Because three is what almost every survivor actually needs first: the phone passcode, the primary email password, and the password manager master. With those three, your trusted person can reach almost everything else themselves. Adding more turns the binder into a vault, and a vault is not what we are.

The details that let them open an envelope live in the browser where they accepted your invitation, not in an account, because they never had to make one. If that browser or that email address is gone, the phrase they hold cannot bring those details back on its own.

While you are here, this is a small thing to put right: send them a new invitation from your binder. Their old link stops working, the fresh one reaches them wherever you now say it should, and you seal the envelopes addressed to them again.

If you are not here, what carries them is paper you prepared earlier. Afterward can print the actual sealed instructions for you to hand over or store where they can reach them. The cover sheet on its own only points to the envelope; it does not contain what is inside. Automatic release is not available yet, so this printed copy is worth preparing now.

Yes, but only on a device that has already signed in to your binder. Opening a sealed envelope of your own re-asks for the same key you set up on first use, so a stranger holding your unlocked laptop cannot read it without the second step.

Open the envelope, edit the contents, and re-seal it. There is no version history; the older sealed copy is replaced cleanly.

They open a link in any browser. No app to install, no account to create, no password for them to remember. They confirm their identity with a single sign-in link sent to the email or phone you wrote down for them, and the binder opens.

Ask them to check Junk or Spam for a note from Afterward at hello@afterward.care. Some mailbox providers may place access emails there while deliverability work continues. If they still cannot find it, use a fresh copy-now link through a private channel you already trust, and ask them to open the complete address from that message.

They see the open binder sections that are part of the shared reader. Sealed envelopes stay separate and only open through the sealed-envelope release path, which is not available yet. The three sealed-envelope slots are for the phone passcode, primary email, and password manager instruction.

The product stays centered on one trusted recipient. You can change who is named at any time, and the change takes effect immediately. Broader recipient roles are not part of Personal today.

Their link stops working immediately. They are removed from any sealed envelopes addressed to them, and the next time they try to open the binder they see a quiet message that the binder is no longer shared with them.

Only if you choose. The default is quiet: the binder is yours, and how you have your conversation about it is yours too. If you would rather they know up front, there is a one-tap option to send a short, plain note explaining what you have done and why.

The courtesy interval is currently unavailable. Afterward does not send an automatic 60-day check-in or open a 7-day release window today. You can share the binder directly from the app when you choose.

Not yet. The planned 60 / 7 split is unavailable today, so there is no active interval to tune. Direct sharing remains available.

There is no active automated check-in to miss today. The planned courtesy interval is unavailable, and you can share the binder directly when you choose.

There is no active interval to turn off. The planned courtesy release is unavailable today; you can share the binder directly on your own timing.

The automated recipient request path is currently unavailable, so it does not send a notice or open a release window. You can share the binder directly when you choose.

Personal is a complete ordinary handoff for one trusted person: the binder, no-account reader, manual review, call scripts, PDF and portable data export, and recovery, revoke, and delete controls. You can start without a card, and the work you write remains yours. The planned courtesy release is not available yet.

Family is a planned $99/year learning tier and is not available yet. When it is offered, it will share the Personal foundation and add the sealed workflow for phone, primary email, and password manager instructions.

Your binder remains yours. Data export is not a premium add-on, and we will not use a paid plan change to lock away work you have already written.

Yes. PDF and portable export remain available from inside the app. Normal export does not include sealed values by default; sealed instructions stay behind their separate reveal and print flow.

Export a copy from inside the app first, then write to hello@afterward.care from the address on your account. Deletion is permanent, and we will tell you that clearly before we do it.

When Family is offered and you subscribe, its first-charge refund and cancellation terms will be shown before purchase.

When Family is offered and you subscribe, you will be able to manage cancellation from Billing without a support ticket or retention call. Personal remains available today.

No. Your binder is locked on your device before it reaches us. We hold the locked version; the keys live with you and the people you named. Even with full access to our servers, what we have looks like sealed envelopes: addressed, but unopenable.

We cannot open it for you. Not because we will not, because the architecture genuinely does not allow it. The same property that keeps a court out is the property that keeps us out.

Save the backup code somewhere physical when you start. It is the second key to the binder.

No. Structurally we could not even if we wanted to. Your binder is locked before it leaves your device. There is no advertising business attached to Afterward, and there will not be one. The product is the product.

Your email address, account identifiers, the size of your binder, and when it was last opened, so the planned courtesy interval can run when it is available. We also keep the names and protected contact details of the people you marked as recipients, because we need to know where to send a link if the interval becomes available. The contents of the binder itself are not in that list.

On the security page. It is written in plain language, with the precise technical detail tucked behind a "show me more" toggle for anyone who wants it.