FreeWill vs Legacy Suite
FreeWill and Legacy Suite are both online estate planning platforms, and people often look at the two while deciding where to build their plan. They are organised around different starting points, so the useful question is usually which set of needs you are trying to cover rather than which platform is better in the abstract.
FreeWill is built around free estate planning documents, funded through partnerships with nonprofit organisations. Legacy Suite covers estate documents as well, and adds encrypted storage for digital assets — crypto wallet credentials, passwords, and account access — so that the people who inherit can actually reach what the documents describe.
The table below sets out where the two platforms overlap and where they differ. It is limited to things each company states publicly about its own service; anything we could not verify on FreeWill's own site has been left out rather than guessed at.
Side by side
Core estate documents
Legacy Suite
Will, trust, power of attorney, healthcare directive
Documents are generated from attorney-reviewed templates adapted to the state you select.
FreeWill
Will, trust, power of attorney, advance healthcare directive
FreeWill lists a last will and testament, revocable living trust, advance healthcare directive, financial power of attorney, and beneficiary designations among its products.
Cost to the person making a plan
Legacy Suite
Free tier, plus paid plans
Core tools are offered free through nonprofit partnerships; additional plans add features such as expanded vault storage.
FreeWill
Free, funded by nonprofit partners
FreeWill states its tools are free to the user and that it is supported by partnerships with nonprofit organisations.
US state coverage
Legacy Suite
All 50 states
Templates are adapted to the requirements of the state you select, with guidance on signing and witnessing.
FreeWill
Fifty states and DC
FreeWill's FAQ states it creates wills valid for the disposition of property located in the fifty states and DC.
Attorney-reviewed templates
Legacy Suite
Yes
Templates are attorney-reviewed. Legacy Suite is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
FreeWill
Self-help documents
FreeWill describes itself as offering online self-help solutions for common estate planning needs, and states that it is not a law firm.
Naming a digital executor
Legacy Suite
Supported
Digital assets and the people who should receive them are handled alongside the estate documents.
FreeWill
Supported within the will
FreeWill's guidance describes naming a digital executor and listing digital accounts as part of the will.
Encrypted vault for passwords and account access
Legacy Suite
Included
Legacy Pass stores credentials under a zero-knowledge model with AES-256 encryption.
FreeWill
Not listed among its products
FreeWill's products page lists estate documents and charitable giving tools; a credential vault is not among them.
Crypto wallet inheritance
Legacy Suite
Seed phrases and private keys
Wallet Protection is non-custodial and is built around making wallet secrets recoverable by beneficiaries.
FreeWill
Crypto donation tool
FreeWill lists charitable crypto gifts among its products. That tool is for donating cryptocurrency to charity rather than passing wallet access to heirs.
Charitable giving focus
Legacy Suite
Planned giving for nonprofit partners
Legacy Suite works with nonprofits on planned giving and bequests.
FreeWill
Central to the model
FreeWill states that it partners with nonprofit organisations and that a share of users include a charity in their will.
Competitor details reflect what FreeWill publishes on its own website and were last checked in September 2026. Platforms change what they offer, so verify current details on FreeWill's site before relying on this comparison. Sources: FreeWill homepage, FreeWill FAQ, FreeWill products.
Questions people ask when comparing
What comes up most when deciding between FreeWill and Legacy Suite.
- The clearest difference is scope. FreeWill concentrates on producing free estate planning documents, funded by its nonprofit partnerships. Legacy Suite produces estate documents as well, and adds encrypted storage for the credentials and crypto wallet secrets those documents refer to. If your plan is mostly about who inherits property, both platforms address that. If a meaningful part of your estate is digital — exchange accounts, self-custodied wallets, online accounts — the storage side is the part worth comparing closely.
- FreeWill states on its own site that its tools are free to use and that it does not ask for credit card details, and it describes being supported by partnerships with nonprofit organisations. Legacy Suite also offers its core estate planning tools free through nonprofit partnerships, with paid plans for additional features. Because both companies can change pricing, check the current terms on each site before deciding on cost alone.
- Both are self-help platforms rather than law firms, and in both cases a document becomes legally effective when you sign it according to your state's rules. That usually means printing it and signing in front of the required witnesses, with notarisation in some states. Legacy Suite generates documents from attorney-reviewed templates adapted to the state you select and provides signing and witnessing guidance; FreeWill states that its wills are valid for the disposition of property in the fifty states and DC. Neither replaces personalised legal advice if your estate is complex.
- This is a genuine category difference rather than a matter of degree. FreeWill lists a charitable crypto gifting tool, which is designed for donating cryptocurrency to nonprofits. Legacy Suite's Wallet Protection is built for inheritance: it stores seed phrases and private keys so beneficiaries can recover a wallet, and it is non-custodial, meaning the platform does not hold your funds. If passing self-custodied crypto to heirs is a priority, that capability is worth confirming directly with any platform you consider.
- It depends on what you are protecting. If you want a straightforward will, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives at no cost, and you like that charitable giving is built into the model, FreeWill covers that ground. If you also need somewhere secure for passwords, account access, and crypto wallet credentials so your executor can act on the plan, that is the gap Legacy Suite is built to close. Many people are deciding between a documents-only plan and a documents-plus-access plan, and that is the more useful way to frame the choice.