MORTL Premium
Knowing what to do is free.
Getting it done is Premium.
Core articles, guides, and state explainers on MORTL are available at no cost. Premium adds tools that help you organize a plan, choose what to share, and return to saved materials when you need them.
The short answer
Premium adds the document-grade tools: state-specific will and directive builders, the printable Folder handoff, family sharing for up to five people, and the estate hub. Two things never cost money: the someone-just-died path is free forever, and anyone on the dying path gets every Premium feature free, permanently.
Reviewed August 2026
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Everything you need to understand death and start your plan.
- Every guide, story, and state law explainer. No paywall on information, ever.
- 22 free tools with no account. Drafts save in that browser, or to your free account when you're signed in.
- A free account adds a dashboard that saves and syncs: checklist, document vault, family contacts, account tracker, death playlist, funeral wishes, trusted contacts
- The Death Dispatch weekly newsletter
- The "someone just died" path. Free. Always. Forever.
The Folder, once
$59 once
The Folder: your family handoff
One organized record of the key contacts, document locations, account hints, and wishes you choose to save. Review it yearly and tell someone you trust where it is.
The Premium Tool Suite
All 14 Premium tools, including the letter of instruction and the estate inventory, and the free will, living will and power of attorney builders' answers saved to your account. Documents download as formatted PDF or Word drafts with state-specific instructions. Confirm current execution requirements and consider legal review before signing.
Family Sharing
Give up to 5 trusted people a read-only view of your wishes, contacts, playlist, and progress. Your executor can’t execute a plan they can’t find.
Estate Health Check
A readiness score based on the planning information you provide, with the gaps the check is designed to identify. Run it again as your plan changes.
One payment, yours for life. Everything above except syncing your tool answers to your account and across devices, and the Estate Health Check's itemized gap list. Add those later for $39/yr.
One payment. Nothing renews, and nothing to cancel.
The legal tools cover the 50 US states and DC. Outside the US, the writing, the funeral and grief tools, and The Folder all still work; the will, directive, probate, and estate tax tools are built on US state law and won't apply to you. Tell us where you are and we'll build yours in the order people ask.
Premium never paywalls information, and it never touches the someone just died path. That stays free for everyone, always. Read how MORTL makes money.
Every tool, by name
Open any of them and see what it does before you pay. The free ones stay free.
Premium tools
Free tools
- The Weeks You Have Left
- Will Template Hub
- Living Will Builder
- Healthcare Power of Attorney
- Advance Directive Hub
- Obituary Maker
- Write Your Own Obituary
- Funeral Program
- Eulogy Builder
- What to Say
- Thank-You Notes
- Pet Obituary
- Pet Quality of Life Scale
- Pet Cremation Cost
- Debt Responsibility Checker
- Who to Notify Tracker
- Do I Need Probate?
- What's This Document?
- Executor Checklist
- Planning Checklist
- Financial Power of Attorney
- Funeral Cost Planner
What needs an account, and what needs Premium
You can use most of MORTL without paying anything. Here’s the exact line.
| What you can do | No account | Free account | The Folder, once | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read every guide, story, and answer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The someone-just-died path | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Build documents in the browser: will, living will, directive, power of attorney | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Download, print, and copy what you built | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| A dashboard and checklist that remember your progress | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Document vault | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| All 14 Premium planning tools | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| The Folder, printed for your family | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Family sharing, read-only, up to 5 people | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free-tool drafts saved to your account, on every device | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Premium tool answers synced across your devices | No | No | No | Yes |
| Estate Health Check: the gap list with the fix for each | No | No | No | Yes |
Gift Premium
Give someone a year of having this handled.
One payment of $69. They get a full year of Premium, tied to their email, activated the moment they sign in. No code to lose.
Two things worth knowing. MORTL doesn't email the recipient, so you'll need to tell them yourself. If they already pay for Premium through Stripe, the $69 gift value becomes account credit toward future MORTL Premium invoices. Their current subscription remains active. Checkout is blocked when the email already has access that can’t use another year. If that changes while payment is processing, MORTL automatically refunds the gift.
Premium, Answered
What you're paying for, and what you never will.
Premium exists to help you finish a plan and put it in the right hands. The information itself isn't for sale. Here's how the line is drawn.
What does MORTL Premium cost?
$9 a month or $69 a year. You can cancel anytime and your access continues through the period you already paid for. There are no tiers, add-ons, or upsells inside Premium.
What stays free without Premium?
Everything you need to understand death and plan for it. Every guide, story, and state law explainer. Your dashboard, your end-of-life checklist personalized to your state, the document vault, the account tracker, and the Death Dispatch newsletter. Premium adds convenience and sharing on top; it never puts information behind a paywall.
Read how MORTL makes money →Is the 'someone just died' path really free?
Yes. Free, always, forever. If you're dealing with a death right now, nothing in that path asks you for money, and nothing ever will. That's a standing commitment, not a promotion.
Go to the someone just died path →What is Family Sharing?
You invite the people who will need your plan to see it: your spouse, your executor, your kids. A plan nobody can find is a plan that doesn't work. Family Sharing makes sure the right people know where your documents and wishes live before they need them.
How do I cancel?
Anytime, with no penalty. Your Premium features keep working until the end of the period you already paid for, and your documents, checklist, and dashboard stay yours on the free plan afterward. Canceling never deletes your plan.
Want your whole team covered?
MORTL for Employers gives every employee Premium as a benefit, with rollout support and utilization reporting for HR. $2,500 for the first year, for up to 250 employees; $2 per employee per month at renewal, billed annually, with a $2,500 annual minimum.
MORTL for Employers