Letters for the people you love, scheduled for any future date. Passwords your spouse can reach when they need to. Documents organized so your family can find them. Encrypted before they leave your device.
“I'm writing this the year you turned six. By the time you read it…”
Vaulternal is for parents and partnered adults who want a single, private place for the information their household runs on — and who want to be sure that the right people can reach it at the right time. If you've ever written a letter you wanted to give your child years from now, or thought "my spouse wouldn't know where the mortgage documents are," or felt like you're the only person in the family who knows where everything is — this is the tool that was built for that.
Some moments are worth preparing for years in advance. Parents write a letter to a young child and schedule it to arrive on an eighteenth birthday. A parent records a short video for a son or daughter, set to be delivered the morning of their wedding — a date you can pin now or move later. Others write a series of notes, one for each anniversary across the next twenty years. You write or record today, choose the date, and Vaulternal holds it encrypted until then. Nothing is sent early, and you can revisit or rewrite any of it whenever life changes.
Read more about letters and videosThe information your household runs on rarely lives in one place — and usually only one person knows where it all is. Vaulternal gives your spouse a way to reach the joint accounts, the mortgage portal, and the utility logins, on rules you control. You can prepare an emergency packet for grandparents — the pediatrician, the allergy list, school pickup authorization — released the moment it's needed. For a trip, you can share an itinerary, passport scan, and contacts that automatically stop being shared when you're back.
Read more about password continuityIf you're the family's filing cabinet, this is the part that frees up space in your head. Keep the insurance policies, mortgage documents, vehicle titles, and important contacts in one encrypted place that one trusted person can always reach. Keep a single "where everything is" document and let Vaulternal remind you to refresh it each year. Set up a recurring babysitter packet — Wi-Fi password, alarm code, medication schedule — that goes to whoever's watching the kids that week. Organized once, shared on the terms you choose.
Read more about organizing documentsThere's no complicated setup, and nothing technical to learn. Four steps cover the whole thing.
1. Write or upload, on your device
Write a letter or upload a file. It's encrypted on your own computer or phone before anything is sent, so it leaves your device already unreadable to anyone else.
2. Choose a delivery rule
Pick who receives it and when — a specific date, a recurring date, or your own manual command. You stay in control of the rule and can change it later.
3. We hold it, encrypted
Vaulternal stores the encrypted file. We don't hold the keys to read it, so we can't see what's inside — and neither can anyone you haven't chosen.
4. The right people receive it
When your rule fires, the people you chose verify who they are and unlock the files you left them — no technical know-how needed.
Birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries — the milestones you want to be part of even if your schedule, or distance, gets in the way. Write a note or record a short video today and choose the day it arrives. Some families set up a single letter; others build a small archive that releases one piece at a time over the years.
The account logins, the mortgage portal, the insurance policies, and the joint accounts your spouse may not have on their phone. The practical details that are easy to find when you're the one who set them up, and genuinely hard to track down when you're not. Kept in one encrypted place, released on the rules you choose.
The pediatrician's number, the allergy list, school pickup authorization, the medication schedule. The things a grandparent or babysitter needs when they're suddenly the adult in charge. Prepare the packet once and share it on a recurring schedule, or release it the moment someone steps in to help.
Insurance, mortgage, vehicle titles, identification documents, school records, medical history. The paperwork that's calm to have organized and stressful to reconstruct. Store it encrypted, keep it current, and make sure one trusted person can always reach it.
Recipes in a grandparent's exact wording, the story behind a name, the explanation of a tradition, the inside joke nobody wrote down. The things that don't fit in any other app and quietly disappear if no one saves them. Keep them, and choose when the next generation receives them.
The first steps, the trips, the everyday clips that only exist on a single phone today. Keep the ones that matter in one encrypted place the whole family can reach — and decide who receives the full archive, and when. The memories you'd never want to lose to a cracked screen or a forgotten password.
A shared document is fast, free, and familiar — which is why it's the most common starting point. But anyone with the link can read it, including Google, and it can't deliver itself to a specific person on a specific date. Most of all, it lives inside your account: if that account is closed or unreachable, the document goes with it. A family vault encrypts each item to the recipient, schedules its own delivery, and doesn't depend on your account staying open.
Both are free and well integrated, and worth setting up if you live entirely in one ecosystem. But they only work within that ecosystem, they're triggered mainly by long inactivity rather than dates you choose, and they're not built for sending a particular letter to a particular person on a particular day. Vaulternal works across platforms — including for relatives who don't use Apple or Google — and is built around scheduled, rule-based delivery.
1Password's emergency access is excellent for one job: letting a trusted person recover your passwords. If that's all you need, it does it well. It isn't designed for letters, documents, videos, or delivery scheduled for a future date. A family vault covers the wider set of things a household needs to pass along — not just credentials — with timing you control.
A binder or fireproof safe has a real strength: it doesn't depend on any company continuing to exist. But it's hard to keep current, hard to share with someone far away, and vulnerable to fire, flood, and theft — and it can't deliver itself on a date. Vaulternal keeps the always-available, easy-to-update, deliver-on-schedule side — and, for files you choose to keep permanently, is building toward storage that persists independently of any single company.
These tools are built around legal-adjacent planning and use vocabulary that comes with that framing. They prove the need is real. Vaulternal is a different shape of tool for a different moment: it's built around encryption and scheduled delivery, not legal paperwork — a private place for the everyday things, available whenever the people you choose need them.
You don't have to take our word for any of this — the way it works is the point.
Your files are encrypted on your own device, with keys that stay with you. We store only the encrypted version and never hold the keys to open it, so we can't read what's inside.
Every delivery is a rule you set — a date, a person, or your manual command. You can change or cancel any rule any time before it fires. No one reaches anything until you say so.
Your files are encrypted with keys only you hold, and kept on redundant storage today — so no single server or outage puts them out of reach. For the ones that must last, a permanent on-chain option adds a further layer, designed to persist independently of us.
No credit card. 2 GB free. Works with Google, Microsoft, or email login.