A will says who gets everything.
It doesn't say where anything is.
Left In Peace is the small, locked USB drive that holds everything your family would otherwise spend months searching for — so the worst week of their lives comes with a map.
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What actually happens without it
Three days after the worst phone call of their lives, your family is sitting at your kitchen table — guessing your email password until the account locks.
Calling banks that ask for account numbers they've never seen. Hunting for a life insurance policy they think exists. Wondering what the key in the junk drawer opens, which bills are on autopay, and who your attorney is.
Every one of those questions has an answer. The answer just left with the one person who knew it.
Families spend months on this. Some accounts and policies are simply never found — billions of dollars sit unclaimed in this country because nobody wrote down that they existed.
Find out in 2 minutes — free, nothing to buy
How many of those answers does your family have today?
20 quick questions, about 2 minutes. You'll get a readiness score and see exactly which answers your family would be missing today — often not the ones you'd guess.
Take the Free 2-Minute CheckFree · No signup needed to see your score · Your answers stay on your screen
Why not just a notebook — or an app?
Every way people keep this information, compared on what actually matters. We marked our own weak spots too — no option is perfect, including ours.
Safe from anyone who finds it
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Can it be hacked?
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Holds passwords & PINs safely
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Still works in 15 years, no company needed
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Survives fire, flood, or loss
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Recurring cost
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Ease of update
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Reminds you to keep it current
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Family can open it without you
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Medical emergency — you're alive, but need help
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Built for someone 80
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Fits your life, not a form
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
Works without a computer
Paper planner / binder
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Cheapest option
Paper planner / binder
Left In Peace
| Paper planner / binder | Online vault (subscription) | DIY template / spreadsheet | Password manager | Left In Peace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safe from anyone who finds it | ✗Anyone who opens the drawer can read it | ✓Encrypted | ✗Unencrypted file or printed pages | ✓Encrypted | ✓Encrypted — your PIN, or the two unlock codes |
| Can it be hacked? | ~No hacking — but no lock at all | ✗Servers are a target; breaches happen | ✗A file on a computer — phishing, sync leaks | ✗Major ones have been breached | ✓Never touches the internet — nothing to hack |
| Holds passwords & PINs safely | ✗Even premium workbooks say don't write them in | ✓Yes | ✗Not safely | ~Passwords only — not the rest | ✓Yes — locked on the key |
| Still works in 15 years, no company needed | ~If it survives — and stayed current | ✗Needs the company alive and the subscription paid | ~Files and apps drift over time | ✗Subscription and servers required | ✓Offline by design — no company required |
| Survives fire, flood, or loss | ✗One copy, one house | ✓Yes | ✗Usually one copy | ✓Yes | ✓Backup copies + duplicate code cards |
| Recurring cost | ✓None | ✗Monthly or yearly, forever | ✓None | ✗Yearly, forever | ✓None — one-time purchase |
| Ease of update | ✗Cross-outs and rewritten pages | ✓Easy | ~Re-edit, reprint, re-secure | ✓Easy | ✓Edit and save — seconds |
| Reminds you to keep it current | ✗No | ~Some do | ✗No | ✗No | ✓Annual review + key-holder check |
| Family can open it without you | ~Anyone can — that's the problem | ✗Account recovery + the company's approval | ✗Only if they find — and can open — the file | ✗The master password left with you | ✓The key + their two printed codes, with a guided unlock |
| Medical emergency — you're alive, but need help | ✗All or nothing — whoever finds it sees everything | ~Depends on the service | ✗All or nothing | ✗No | ✓Optional emergency mode: one code holder sees only medical, insurance, and bill-paying basics |
| Built for someone 80 | ✓Paper is familiar | ✗Apps, logins, and menus | ✗You're the IT department | ✗Built for tech users | ✓Extra-large text, plain English, no typing to unlock |
| Fits your life, not a form | ~Blank pages fit anything — and guide nothing | ~Fixed fields and categories | ✗Only if your life fits the template | ✗Passwords only | ✓Guided sections, plus room for everything that makes your life yours |
| Works without a computer | ✓Yes | ~Needs internet and a device | ~Needs a device to edit | ✗No | ✗No — needs a computer with a modern browser that can access USB drives |
| Cheapest option | ✓A $2 notebook wins on price | ~Free tiers exist — until they don't | ✓Cheap | ~Yearly fees add up | ~More than a notebook, less than premium workbooks — once |
The two marks against us are real: Left In Peace needs a computer, and a $2 notebook is cheaper. Everything else on this table is why the notebook costs your family more in the end.
The two marks against us are real: Left In Peace needs a computer, and a $2 notebook is cheaper. Everything else on this table is why every other column costs your family more in the end.
Why this one won't sit in a drawer
The first 15 minutes covers the essentials
The Crisis Card walks you through the 8 things your family would need in the first 24 hours — phone PIN, email, attorney, will location. Fifteen minutes, tonight, and the most dangerous gaps are closed.
You don't have to know everything today
Don't know your policy number? Check the “need to find” box and move on. You get a printable to-do list and come back when you've got it.
It reminds you to keep it current
A built-in annual review calendar breaks upkeep into small monthly prompts. The binder from 2014 goes stale. This doesn't.
Built for real people — including 80-year-olds
Large, easy-to-read text — three sizes including a high-contrast, large-print mode, and your choice of light or dark. No passwords to type — your family unlocks it by clicking six words on screen. Every message is calm, plain English. A note always says “✓ All changes saved.”
Locked. Offline. Yours.
A notebook in a drawer can be read by anyone who opens the drawer. An online service can send you the email nobody wants — "we are writing to inform you of a security incident."
Left In Peace took the opposite path on purpose. Your information never touches the internet — there is no account, no cloud, no company computer holding your secrets. It lives on one locked drive in your home.
Opening it takes your PIN. If something happens to you, it takes two trusted people — each holding their own six secret words — coming together to unlock it. No single person, however trusted, can open it alone.
Works on Windows and Mac in Chrome, Edge, or Brave (Mac users get a one-click launcher). No internet needed — ever.
Everything they'd need, in one place
Plus a one-page Net Worth Snapshot the app totals for you, and ten plain-English guides — including a 2 AM Phone Call Kit for the night your family needs a checklist instead of a panic, and a Legacy Guide for the words that matter.
And the question that stops more estates than any password: which paper counts?Legal & Records asks who prepared your will, what year it was signed, whether the copy at that location is the signed original, and whether an older one is out there that it replaces — in your own words, so there is no guessing later. Then a checklist of the papers families most often don't know exist: the deed, the car titles, the safe deposit box and where its key is, military discharge papers, beneficiary forms, a prepaid funeral contract.
Try it for 30 days. If it isn't right, send it back.
Full refund, no questions, no forms. And if you get stuck during setup, you email a real person — me. I built Left In Peace after spending fourteen months closing an estate that came with no map. Your family deserves better, and so does mine.
— Greg White, Founder
Don't take our word for it
“My wife is in assisted living, and I needed something very organized with all our information in case something happened to me. I started using Left In Peace and was surprised at how easy it was to use and how much it covered — I am not much of a computer person. I feel so much better that everything is all together in one place.”
“I really wish my mother would have had this. She was pretty organized, but the genealogy, the kitchen items, the dishes — nobody knew what her wishes were. Two years later, me and my sisters still have it all, with no plan.”
Everything they'll need, right where you left it.
A few quiet evenings now. A map instead of a mystery, when it matters most.