Voice & video messages

Say it while
you still can.

Record a voice or video message straight from your browser and leave it for a named person. No camera crew, no editing software, no app to install — just you, talking to someone you love.

Record a message
Records in the browserLeft for a named recipient

What a document cannot carry

A voice is not a document

A will settles who gets what. It cannot carry the way you say someone's name, the pauses, the laugh in the middle of a sentence. That part only survives if you record it.

The words nobody got to say

Families rarely regret the paperwork. They regret the conversation that kept getting postponed until there was no more time to have it.

Recordings scattered everywhere

Voice notes sit in a locked phone, a defunct cloud account, an old laptop. Nobody knows they exist, and nobody can reach them.

There is no scheduled delivery

Products in this category love to promise a message that arrives on your daughter's eighteenth birthday. Ours does not do that, and we are not going to imply it does. Every message you record is sent with a delivery time of now — there is no date picker anywhere in the product, and no timer waiting in the background.

What you get instead is simpler and more dependable: a recording made in your own voice, attached to a named person, sitting in a place they can reach. Shares can be marked to take effect now or after your passing, and an after-passing release runs through the reviewed Claim Property process your executor completes — a person reads the paperwork, not a clock.

How release after a passing works

What this feature actually does

We would rather be precise than sell you a fantasy. This is a recorder and a place to keep what you record, addressed to the people you name. It is not a scheduling service, and we will not pretend otherwise.

What it does

  • Records audio or video directly in your browser, with no separate app or upload tool
  • Uploads the finished recording to storage through a signed, single-use link
  • Attaches each message to the specific person you want to receive it
  • Keeps everything you have created in one tab: view, share, edit, or delete any message
  • Keeps messages left for you in a second tab, where you can play them and mark them as seen
  • Lets you set a share to take effect now, or after your passing

What it does not do

  • It does not schedule delivery for a future date — there is no date picker in the product
  • It cannot hold a message until a birthday, an anniversary, or a graduation
  • It does not release messages on an automatic timer or countdown
  • It does not send reminders, drip a series out over time, or stagger delivery
  • It does not edit, trim, caption, or enhance your recording
  • It does not transcribe what you said into text

What people actually record.

If you are stuck on what to say, it is almost never one of the grand speeches. It is usually one of these four.

The things you never said out loud

An apology you have been carrying. A thank-you that felt too big for a card. Pride you assumed they already knew about. Say it once, properly, and it stops depending on your memory or theirs.

The story only you know

How your parents met. Why the family left the town they left. What the business looked like in the first year. Records of this kind disappear quietly, one generation at a time, unless somebody sits down and tells it.

The practical explanation

Why the estate is divided the way it is. What you hoped a particular gift would be used for. A document can state the decision; your voice can explain the reasoning behind it, which is usually what prevents an argument.

The ordinary moment

Your voice reading a bedtime story. A thirty-second video from the kitchen. Nothing momentous — which is exactly why it is the thing people play back the most.

Two tabs, two jobs

Messages you leave, and messages left for you.

The feature is split down the middle. One side is everything you have recorded for other people. The other is what other people have recorded for you.

Messages you created

Everything you have recorded, listed with the person it is meant for. You stay in control of each one for as long as you want to.

  • View

    Play back what you recorded

  • Share

    Send it to the recipient now, or mark it for after your passing

  • Edit

    Change the details of a message you have saved

  • Delete

    Remove it entirely if you change your mind

Messages left for you

What someone else recorded and addressed to you. It waits here until you are ready, and nothing pushes you to open it.

  • Play

    Listen or watch, as many times as you like

  • Mark as seen

    Note that you have watched it, on your own schedule

How it works

Open the recorder, say what you want to say, and name the person it is for.

Step 01

Open the recorder

In the browser: Recording uses the browser's own MediaRecorder, so there is nothing to download and no file to prepare beforehand. Grant access to your microphone or camera, choose audio or video, and press record.

Recording

Audio or video, captured in the browser

Step 02

Say what you want to say

No production required: There is no script, no editing suite, and no minimum length. A thirty-second message that sounds like you is worth more than a polished one that does not. When you stop recording, the file uploads to storage through a signed link.

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Message saved

Uploaded and added to your list

Step 03

Name who it is for

A person, not a date: Every message is addressed to a named recipient. You can share it with them now, or mark the share for after your passing — in which case it is released through the reviewed Claim Property process, not by an automatic timer.

Before you press record

A few honest notes from people who have done this. None of them are requirements — the only real requirement is that you start.

Talk to one person

A message addressed to everyone tends to sound like a speech. A message addressed to your brother sounds like you talking to your brother, which is the whole point.

Do not script it

Read-aloud writing is easy to spot and hard to listen to. Notes on a card are fine. A full script usually is not.

Short is fine

Two minutes said plainly beats twenty minutes of throat-clearing. You can always record another one; there is no limit on how many messages you leave.

Record several, not one perfect one

Trying to get it right in one take is how this ends up never happening. Record the easy one first, keep it, and add to it over time.

Questions about voice and video messages

Starting with the one everybody asks about scheduled delivery.

No. This is the single most important thing to know about the feature, so we will say it plainly: Legacy Suite has no scheduled delivery. There is no date picker anywhere in the product, and every message is saved with a delivery time of now. If you have seen other products promise a message that arrives on a specific future date, ours does not do that.
Not as a timed delivery, no. You can record the message today and address it to her, and it will be there — but nothing in the product holds it back and then releases it on a chosen date. If you want her to receive it on a particular day, you would need a person to hand it over on that day. We would rather tell you that now than let you assume otherwise.
That your voice exists at all, attached to the person it is meant for, somewhere they can reach. The hard part of this was never the timer. It is sitting down and actually saying the thing, and then making sure the recording is not stranded in a locked phone or an abandoned cloud account.
In your browser, using its built-in recorder. You grant access to your microphone or camera, choose audio or video, and press record. There is nothing to install, no separate app, and no file you have to prepare and upload yourself.
Both. The recorder handles audio-only messages and video messages. Which one you choose is entirely up to you — some people find a camera makes them self-conscious and say more with audio alone.
When you stop recording, the file uploads to cloud storage through a signed, single-use link generated for that upload. The message then appears in your list of created messages.
Each message is attached to a named recipient — the specific person you want it to reach. It shows up in their tab of messages left for them. It is not public and it is not broadcast to your whole contact list.
One tab holds messages you created: everything you have recorded for other people, where you can view, share, edit, or delete any of them. The other tab holds messages left for you: what someone else recorded and addressed to you, where you can play them and mark them as seen.
Yes. Messages you created can be edited or deleted from your list at any time. If you record something and later decide against it, removing it is straightforward.
When you share a message, you choose whether the recipient gets access immediately or after your passing. Now means they can open it right away. After your passing means it is held as part of your estate rather than released by a timer.
Through the Claim Property process. Your executor submits documentation — including a death certificate — and a person reviews it before anything is released. It is a manual, document-based review, not an automatic trigger. You can read how that works on our claim page.
No. Legacy Suite does not watch for inactivity and does not release anything because you stopped logging in. The only path to an after-passing release is the reviewed claim process described above.
There is no practical reason to leave only one. Most people find it easier to record several short messages for different people over time than to attempt a single definitive recording in one sitting.
No. There is no transcription, trimming, captioning, or enhancement. What you record is what is saved. If you are unhappy with a take, the simplest fix is to record it again and delete the first one.
A message you share now appears in the recipient's tab of messages left for them, where they can play it and mark it as seen. We would not rely on a notification alone: if a message matters, it is worth telling the person it exists.

The recording takes
two minutes.

Pick one person. Say the thing you keep meaning to say. Everything else on this list can wait — that part cannot be done later by anyone else.

Record a message

Messages are delivered now, not on a future date. Legacy Suite does not schedule delivery.