FAQ
Common questions about digital wills, password inheritance, dead man's switches, and how Notenz's encrypted vault and automated check-ins work.
Without a plan, your family typically can't get into your email, bank, or crypto accounts, each provider has its own slow recovery process, often weeks. Notenz solves this by storing your passwords and account details in an encrypted vault that automatically delivers to your chosen heirs or recipients if you stop checking in.
Create a free Notenz account, add your accounts and passwords to your encrypted vault, and name one or more recipients. If your check-ins stop (because you're no longer able to confirm you're okay), Notenz notifies you across multiple channels, waits through a grace period, then delivers the vault to your chosen heirs.
Not a legal will, but it serves a similar practical purpose for digital accounts: passwords, crypto wallets, bank logins, and final instructions, delivered automatically to the people you choose, without a lawyer, notary, or probate process.
A dead man's switch is a mechanism that triggers automatically if someone fails to respond within a set time. Notenz uses this for digital inheritance: you check in on a schedule (e.g. weekly), and if you stop, your vault is delivered to your heirs after a grace period and reminder attempts. Read more in our dead man's switch guide.
Each account provider (Google, banks, exchanges) has its own slow, document-heavy recovery process. Notenz avoids this entirely: the account owner pre-loads passwords and recovery details into an encrypted vault while alive, so the named recipient gets direct access without going through each provider's recovery flow.
Use the free Seed Splitter tool to split the phrase into three paper backups (any two reconstruct it), or store the phrase directly in a Notenz vault item for automatic delivery to your chosen heir.
Store them in an end-to-end encrypted Notenz vault, nobody, including Notenz, can read the contents while you're active. They're only decrypted and delivered after your check-ins stop and the grace period passes.
Notenz covers the digital side (passwords, accounts, crypto, instructions) without legal paperwork. See our digital estate planning checklist for a 15-minute starting point.
Use Burn-After-Reading, a free, browser-only tool that creates a self-destructing encrypted link, destroyed after one view.
Use File Armor, AES-256-GCM encryption entirely in-browser.
Use Metadata Bleacher, strips EXIF, GPS, and author data locally.
Zero-knowledge means the data is encrypted client-side with a key Notenz never has, so Notenz cannot read it under any circumstances. Guardian's Sealed Vault uses this for the most sensitive items. Learn more about our security model.
Free (€0): 1 vault item, basic check-in, single recipient. Pro (€2.99/month or €29.99/year): unlimited items, multi-channel notifications, staged delivery to multiple recipients. Guardian (€4.99/month or €49.99/year): everything in Pro plus the zero-knowledge Sealed Vault and trusted-contact recovery. See the pricing details.