Henedo vs Trust & Will
$199 for a static PDF. Repurchase every life change. Vault and updates only via the separate Membership add-on, no DMS, no digital assets. Henedo is $7.99/mo with unlimited updates.
Wins on every dimension.
Comparison · 2026
The no-braineragainst every competitor.
Others sell a document, a folder, or an hour of an attorney's time. Henedo combines a will builder, a true zero-knowledge encrypted vault with post-quantum signatures, a daily journal, keys your contacts already hold, and a separately purchased, encrypted Eternal cloud archive, readable only by you and the trusted contacts you designate, for less per month than a streaming subscription.
Full feature matrix
Every feature,side by side.
Last verified April 2026. Competitor pricing and features sourced directly from each company's website. We re-verify quarterly. If something has changed, email support@henedo.com and we will update within 48 hours.
| Feature |  Henedo From $7.99/mo | Trust & Will $199+ one-time |  LegalZoom $149 to $649 one-time |  Everplans $99/year |  Proton Pass $3 to $8/mo | Traditional attorney $300 to $2,000+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core planning | ||||||
Will draft builder Henedo: shared draft template; professional review and signing happen separately | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Unlimited will updates Free to update after marriage, new baby, move, divorce | Yes | Membership | 30d to 1yr | No | No | Hourly |
Encrypted document vault Insurance, deeds, accounts, taxes, titles | Yes | Member tier | Bundled | Yes | No | Paper |
Digital assets & crypto recovery Wallet recovery phrases, exchange accounts, NFTs | Yes | No | No | Notes | Keys only | No |
Final messages (letters + video) Delivered after death to named recipients | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Life Story memoir prompts 1,000 curated prompts; voice, video, or text answers | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Release & access | ||||||
Trusted Delivery Platform-enforced release after inactivity | Yes | No | No | Email-request | No | No |
Keys held in advance Each contact is emailed their own key at designation | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Trusted contacts with per-person keys Named recipients with cryptographic per-person keys | Yes | Executor | Executor | Deputies | No | Executor |
Platform-gated release (not time-locked) Keys delivered immediately; server controls access | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Delivery to the people you name Keys prepared per person, Trusted Delivery and a 60-day Living Vault access window. A separately purchased Eternal cloud archive retains its purchased preservation term. Cryptography controls who can read; Henedo policy controls hosted release | Yes | No | No | No | No | Manual |
| Legacy & preservation | ||||||
Daily journal / life chronicle Text + photos + auto-logged vault activity by date | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Voice notes & video messages Encrypted client-side, scheduled delivery to designated people | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Eternal Vault (separate cloud archive) Separate $699 one-time purchase: 100 GiB, 100-year term. Upload files and seal in your dashboard | $699 once | No | No | No | No | No |
Per-inheritor key wrapping at seal The archive key is wrapped separately for every inheritor named at seal time (AES-256-GCM under an Argon2id-derived per-inheritor key), and the envelope is signed Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 + SLH-DSA | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Opens without the vendor An inheritor holding the complete encrypted archive, format documentation and full key can decrypt independently of the hosted service | Yes | No | No | No | Export only | Paper copy |
Encrypted cloud archive storage Files encrypted before upload to Cloudflare R2; the sealed manifest supports integrity verification | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Physical delivery included in new purchase Current Eternal purchases are cloud-only. Older physical-delivery contracts retain their terms | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Legal advisory | ||||||
Trust documents (Revocable Living Trust) Avoid probate, manage assets during incapacity | Roadmap | Trust Plan | Trust Plan | No | No | Yes |
Healthcare directive, POA, HIPAA Bundled legal documents beyond the will | Roadmap | Yes | Yes | Stores only | No | Yes |
Remote Online Notarization (RON) Notarize via secure video; legal in 48 US states | No | Varies | Add-on | No | No | In person |
Live attorney consultation Ongoing legal advice from licensed attorneys. Henedo is not a law firm; its shared will-draft template is not attorney-reviewed and no one reviews your individual document | No | +$299 | Subscription | No | No | Yes |
Estate-planning education library In-app guides, checklists, decision trees | FAQs | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | In person |
| Security & transparency | ||||||
Zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption The platform cannot read your files, even with full server access | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Argon2id password hashing (64 MB) GPU-resistant key derivation | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Device-bound secret (not just password) Second factor resists password-only breach | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Post-quantum signatures (ML-DSA-65) NIST FIPS 204 hybrid with Ed25519 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Binary transparency (signed build manifest) CI-held Ed25519 key + SRI per asset | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Honeypot canary blobs (breach detection) Auto-triggered lockdown on enumeration | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Economics | ||||||
Entry price | $7.99/mo | $199 once | $99 to $549 | $99/yr | $3 to $8/mo | $300 to $2k+ |
Multi-year discount | Yes | No | No | No | Annual | No |
One-time Eternal Vault option Purchase, upload and seal a separate encrypted cloud archive | $699 once | No | No | No | No | No |
Sources: public pricing pages at trustandwill.com, legalzoom.com, everplans.com, 1password.com, proton.me/pass (accessed 2026). Full security details on the Henedo security page.
Head-to-head
Why Henedo wins,every single time.
Short answers to the questions people search most.
Henedo vs LegalZoom
$99 to $549 for documents. Vault only as a bundled extra, no DMS, no digital legacy. Henedo covers the will plus 7 more capabilities, for less.
Cheaper over any multi-year horizon.
Henedo vs Everplans
$99/year for a vault only. No will, no zero-knowledge encryption, no keys delivered in advance. Henedo Solo adds all of that for $79/year.
4% less, 6× more.
Henedo vs 1Password / Proton Pass
Password managers solve passwords. No will, no deeds, no keys placed with heirs in advance. Henedo stores passwords plus the legal infrastructure.
Different category. Replaces all three.
Henedo vs a traditional attorney
$300 to $2,000+ with staff who can read your docs. Hourly billing for updates. Henedo is zero-knowledge and free to update. We are not lawyers; consult an attorney for jurisdiction-specific advice on complex estates.
Keep the attorney for complex estates.
Exclusive to Henedo
What nobody else has,at any price.
Features you cannot get anywhere else, at any price.
Keys delivered in advance
Every trusted contact is emailed their own access key the day you designate them, years before it is needed. The key stays inert until Trusted Delivery activates.
All tiers
Trusted Delivery
180 days inactive → 5 weeks of warnings → automatic release. Any login resets. Platform-enforced, not time-locked.
5 recovery paths prevent false triggers
Daily journal
A private chronicle tied to dates and vault activity. Exported with your Eternal Vault. Inheritors get the person, not just the documents.
Unique to Henedo
Eternal Vault
Encrypted archive storage in Cloudflare R2, with the purchased preservation term. Upload files, assign inheritors and seal in your dashboard. SHA3-512 hash. Dual-signed (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65). Archive key wrapped for every inheritor you name at seal.
100 GiB · 100-year purchased term · $699 once
Binary transparency
Every build signed in CI with Ed25519. Published manifest + SRI attributes. Rogue employees cannot silently serve poisoned code.
Independently auditable
Canary blobs
Honeypot files planted in every vault. Invisible to clients. Any external access triggers instant lockdown, DMS freeze, JWT revocation, user alert.
Breach detection
Economics
The monthly equivalentamortised over 12 months.
Henedo annual charges are shown upfront and as a monthly equivalent. Competitor figures below are earlier observations, not live quotes; verify current scope and pricing with the provider.
| Platform | Headline price | Monthly equivalent | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henedo Solo | $79/year | $6.58 | One private owner + 100 GiB + 6 AI Book compositions/year |
| Henedo Household | $129/year | $10.75 | Two private owners + 200 GiB pooled storage + 12 AI Book compositions/year |
| Trust & Will | $199 once | $16.58 | Will document. Vault + updates need the Membership add-on. |
| LegalZoom Premium | $279 once | $23.25 | Will + attorney consult. No zero-knowledge vault. |
| Everplans | $99/yr | $8.25 | Vault only. No will, no zero-knowledge encryption. |
| 1Password Families | $4.99/mo | $4.99 | Passwords only. No will, no documents. |
| Attorney (estate) | $500 once | $41.67 | Will document. Updates billed hourly. |
Who it's for
Pick the tierthat fits your story.
Free starter to pay-once generational archive.
Billing Term
1 private owner
Solo
$79/year
$6.58/month equivalent
- 100 GiB encrypted storage
- 1 independent private owner
- 6 AI Book compositions per year
- Life Story, digital vault and journal
- Trusted contacts and scheduled Capsules
- The same core protection on every paid plan
2 private owners
Household
$129/year
$10.75/month equivalent
- 200 GiB pooled encrypted storage
- 2 independent private owners
- 12 AI Book compositions per year
- Life Story, digital vault and journal
- Trusted contacts and scheduled Capsules
- The same core protection on every paid plan
6 private owners
Family
$299/year
$24.92/month equivalent
- 500 GiB pooled encrypted storage
- 6 independent private owners
- 36 AI Book compositions per year
- Life Story, digital vault and journal
- Trusted contacts and scheduled Capsules
- The same core protection on every paid plan
The encrypted archiveOne-time purchase
Eternal Vault
Give your memories a place of their own. Upload your files, choose your inheritors, and seal an encrypted cloud archive in your account.
- Encrypted before upload
- Sealed snapshot
- Independent of your membership
- One archive
- $699 once
- Encrypted cloud capacity
- 100 GiB
- Preservation term
- 100 years
After payment is confirmed, open Eternal Vault in your account to upload and seal. Files must be under 50 MiB. Large archives depend on available device memory. Physical delivery and an invested fund are not included in this purchase. Existing archive contracts retain their purchased terms.
Honest differentiation
Where others reach the floor,and why depth still wins.
Zero-knowledge is table stakes for a serious privacy-first vault. Proton Pass, Bitwarden, 1Password, and Lastkey all ship it. The right comparison is not "do they have ZK", it is "what do they do inside the trust boundary." Here is what that looks like.
Proton Pass and Bitwarden
What they have: Both have zero-knowledge. Both are reputable.
Where Henedo goes deeper: Neither ships ASK + WebAuthn PRF + Web Worker isolation + canary blobs + binary transparency for the web bundle. Depth, not presence.
1Password
What they have: Has had a Secret Key longer than us. The concept is sound and we admire it.
Where Henedo goes deeper: Their Secret Key sits in localStorage, extractable by sufficiently capable XSS. Our ASK is in IndexedDB and PRF-encrypted under a WebAuthn biometric. Same idea, hardened storage.
Trust & Will and LegalZoom
What they have: Have lawyer networks we do not. Brands users trust.
Where Henedo goes deeper: We are not a law firm. We are not lawyers; consult an attorney for jurisdiction-specific legal advice. Different scope; we do not pretend to replace counsel.
Everplans
What they have: Has been in market since 2012. Mature ops.
Where Henedo goes deeper: Their security page publicly states administrators can decrypt under legal compulsion. Henedo cannot, by architecture, not by policy. Different security category.
Inheritable.app
What they have: Recently launched, well-priced, UK-focused.
Where Henedo goes deeper: "Encrypted with row-level security" describes server-side encryption with admin access, not client-side zero-knowledge. We applaud the launch; the architecture is genuinely different.
Lastkey, WonderVault, LifeVaultAI, Lineage Vault
What they have: New entrants in the legacy-vault space.
Where Henedo goes deeper: No public architecture spec on any of them, no binary transparency, no shipped post-quantum signatures. Architecture-first vs. brand-first.
Questions
Common questions.Everything you want to know.
Trust & Will charges $199+ as a one-time purchase for a static will document; the document vault and ongoing updates sit behind a separate $19 to $49/year Membership add-on, and there is no digital asset handling. Henedo is a subscription platform starting at $7.99/month that includes unlimited will updates, a 100 GiB encrypted vault, a daily journal, Trusted Delivery, access keys emailed to contacts at designation, while Eternal Vault is a separate one-time cloud-archive purchase.
LegalZoom sells will documents for $99 to $549 one-time and charges again for updates. Henedo Solo is $7.99/month (or $79 billed annually) and includes unlimited updates, an editable will draft template, a full document vault, and digital legacy tools, with value depending on which features you use and how long you subscribe.
No. Everplans is $99/year and includes a vault with AES-256 encryption at rest, but no will builder, no zero-knowledge architecture, no digital asset encryption, no keys delivered in advance, no automated inactivity release, no journal, and no generational archive. Henedo Solo at $7.99/month (or $79 billed annually) covers the same vault features plus everything Everplans lacks.
Password managers solve password access, not estate planning. They do not include a will builder, document vault for deeds/policies, inheritance workflow, Trusted Delivery, or keys placed with heirs in advance. Henedo covers all of those alongside encrypted passwords and crypto recovery phrases.
Henedo combines encrypted vault storage, Trusted Delivery, a journal and Life Story with a separate Eternal archive. The current Eternal purchase is $699 for 100 GiB with a 100-year preservation term: pay, open the dashboard, upload files, choose inheritors and seal. The archive is encrypted before upload to Cloudflare R2 and its key is wrapped for each inheritor. New purchases use email key delivery. Complete held archives, their format documentation and full keys support independent decryption; physical delivery applies only to older contracts that include it.
Henedo uses zero-knowledge end-to-end AES-256-GCM encryption with Argon2id key derivation and a device-bound Account Secret Key. A traditional attorney stores your documents in a physical or cloud filing system they or staff can read. Stored vault documents are encrypted with keys Henedo does not hold. Optional Life Book composition sends selected written answers through our backend to Anthropic after your consent; account and delivery information are processed separately.
Held exports and archive copies can be decrypted with their complete keys and the documented format. Eternal Vault currently uses encrypted cloud storage. Physical-disc fulfillment and endowment operations are separate from the working purchase, upload and seal flow. No software design guarantees operator survival.
Eternal Vault is a separate one-time purchase: $699 for 100 GiB with a 100-year preservation term. After payment confirmation, open Eternal Vault in your dashboard, add files, choose inheritors and seal the encrypted archive. The current service stores encrypted archives in cloud storage; physical-disc delivery is not part of this checkout. Existing purchases retain their contracted terms.
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