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If Required
Encrypted letters, delivered if required

Make sure your family knows. Even if you can’t tell them.

Keep letters, where-to-find notes, and access instructions for the people you love — encrypted on your device, and handed to the right people exactly when they need them.

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The If Required app showing a list of encrypted letters: letter to wife, password manager, photos, computer password, and letter to kidsRead: Why “If Required” matters →Read: Password managers →Read: Photo backup strategy →Read: Computer password →Read: Emails to my kids →
Letter to your kidsWhere the will isPassword managerComputer passwordPhoto archivePet care notesSafe combinationLetter to your wifeAccount accessInsurance papersLetter to your kidsWhere the will isPassword managerComputer passwordPhoto archivePet care notesSafe combinationLetter to your wifeAccount accessInsurance papers
Why this exists

Love isn’t the problem. Finding things is.

When something happens, the people you love shouldn’t have to dig through drawers, guess passwords, and decode your life while they grieve.

Without a plan

Your partner searches drawers for the will and never finds your Dropbox login.

Stressful · Uncertain · Months of untangling

With If Required

They open one app and see your exact words, in your exact order.

Clear · Reliable · Minutes, not months

What it holds

Everything they’ll need. Nothing they’ll have to hunt for.

Words that matter

Personal messages and the important thoughts you never got around to saying out loud.

Accounts to be aware of

Which password manager you use, where the recovery keys live, what to close and what to keep.

Where stuff is

The will, the deed, the spare keys, the safe — the locations only you know today.

Tucked-away things

Hidden items, combinations, and storage spots that would otherwise be lost with you.

Pet details

Care routines, vet contacts, and the quirks only you know about the animals you love.

Digital assets

Photos, documents, domains, and the online valuables your family should inherit.

How it works

Three steps. Ten minutes. Decades of peace of mind.

You don’t need a lawyer or a weekend. You need ten honest minutes and a phone.

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01

Write it down once

Capture letters, locations, and access notes in minutes. Edit any time — life changes, your letters can too.

02

Choose your people

Pick the trusted contacts who should receive each letter. They see nothing until the moment it matters.

03

It arrives, if required

When the time comes, your letters are delivered to exactly the right people. No scrambling. No guessing.

Two ways to prepare

Keep it with us, or keep it in your own hands.

Some things you’ll trust to encryption. Some things you’ll never put on a server at all. If Required does both — so nothing important is ever lost, and nothing private is ever exposed.

Online

Store & send securely

Keep the details safe with us, encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. When the moment comes, the right people receive exactly what they need — automatically.

  • Encrypted end to end — readable by no one, not even us.
  • Delivered automatically to the people you choose.
  • Nothing for your family to hunt for, nothing to forget.
Offline

Leave the map, not the treasure

Don’t want the sensitive stuff online at all? Store only the directions. Point your people to the safe, the drawer, the binder, the deposit box — the secrets stay exactly where you left them.

  • No sensitive data stored online — just where to look.
  • Guide loved ones to physical documents and hidden spots.
  • You stay in full control of what’s shared, and how.

Mix and match freely. Trust us with your passwords and leave a paper-only clue to the safe in the same plan — it’s your call, item by item.

Security

We can’t read your letters. That’s the point.

Everything is encrypted on your device with AES-256 before it ever touches our servers. What we store is noise — readable by no one, including us.

  • Not your notes.
  • Not your secrets.
  • Not even the subject line.
What you write

“The safe key is taped under the workbench. The combination is your mother’s birthday.”

What our servers see

Do it for the people who count on you.

Join the families who sleep better knowing their loved ones will have everything they need — exactly when they need it.

Download on theApp StoreFree to start · Takes about ten minutes