Forethought Personal vs Facing death
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forethought Personal
This app helps you securely organize and share essential information about people, places, and things. It allows you to provide instructions and ensures your data is protected. A premium subscription offers online backup and coordination with designated trustees.
- Secure information organization
- Share instructions with others
- Online backup (premium)
- Coordination with trustees (premium)
- Data security
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Keep important information together, so it is easier to find when you need it. Forethought helps you organize documents, account details, contacts and helpful notes for yourself or someone you care for. Each person's information has its own place in the app, called a vault. ORGANIZE FOR YOURSELF OR A PARENT Keep your own information in one vault and a parent's information in another. Add a document, a contact or a note about an account. You can start with a few details and add more at your own pace. START WITH A FREE BASIC ACCOUNT A Basic account lets you organize information for yourself or a parent at no cost. Your information is automatically saved online with encryption to help protect it. Basic also includes VaultKeepers and 100 MB of storage for documents and photos. HELP LOVED ONES FIND WHAT THEY NEED Choose trusted people, called VaultKeepers, who can request access to a saved report of the information in your vault after your death. Forethought's unlock process determines when that report becomes available. Both Basic accounts and Premium subscriptions include VaultKeepers. SHARE INFORMATION WITH PEOPLE YOU TRUST With a paid Premium subscription, you can invite other Forethought users to a vault. You decide whether each person can only view the information or also help update it. People you invite can use a free Basic account. This lets you share information during everyday life, separately from the VaultKeeper process. KEEP PERSONAL VIDEOS ALONGSIDE YOUR INFORMATION Premium also lets you add personal videos and gives you 1 GB of storage in total for documents, photos and videos. You need to sign in and have an internet connection to save information online or share it. The app shows the price and terms of a Premium subscription before you purchase it. Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Facing death
This app helps users explore and prepare for the end of life, making it a more meaningful experience. It offers tools for creating farewell cards, notes, and action plans, alongside a photo album for life memories. It also integrates with health apps to track fitness goals.
- Farewell card creation
- Note and epitaph writing
- Action plan development
- Life memory photo album
- HealthKit integration for step tracking
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Death is always with us, part of our being. We should talk about it, prepare for it, and use it to guide our lives Make the end of life less painful and more meaningful. We have time to understand how our life will end. And the most important thing is how to spend the last time. Use this app to know about information and preparation about death. Then you can make your farewell card, notes, epitaph, action plan, use checklist to have a quick check. Use photo album to save your meaningful time, memory and life record We integrate with the health app (HealthKit) to read and track your steps data and help you track your daily steps and monitor your progress towards your fitness goals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Facing death at 15.0 against Forethought Personal's 18.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Forethought Personal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Facing death sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Forethought Personal against 5.0 for Facing death. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forethought Personal | Facing death |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 171 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MobileAnswer, Incorporated | Man Hung Sun |
Customer experience
Forethought Personal
Facing death
In-app purchases
Forethought Personal
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Annual$29.991 Year
Facing death
- upgrade$0.99
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