Forethought Personal vs Legacy Chronicles
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/
Legacy Chronicles
Preserve your life's stories, family history, and traditions for future generations. Record or upload videos, photos, audio, and written entries in response to personalized prompts. The app automatically generates a dynamic family tree and a comprehensive legacy book.
- User-specific prompts for life organization
- Record and upload multimedia entries
- Share entries with family and friends
- Automatic dynamic family tree generation
- Create a comprehensive Legacy Chronicles Book
- Transfer account to a custodian
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The Legacy Chronicles App takes information from the User’s Profile and generates User-Specific LC Prompts. These LC Prompts are designed to not only help Users organize and outline their life, but also regularly and accurately chronicle their Life Experiences, Stories, Family History, Advice, Traditions, and More for Future Generations to view and learn from. This is done by Users choosing to respond to a LC Prompt with a recorded or uploaded Video, Photo, Audio, and/or Written LC Entry. Once the LC Entry is created, Users then have the option to share (if they desire) the LC Entry with Family, Friends, Custodians, or Specific Individuals in real time or at a scheduled later date, at which point recipients (e.g. Family, Friends) can Comment on the User’s LC Entry. As a culmination of the User’s LC Entries, the Legacy Chronicles automatically generates a dynamic Family Tree as well as a Legacy Chronicles Book (LC Book) that houses all of the User’s LC Entries. One final unique aspect of the Legacy Chronicles App is that a deceased/inactive User’s account (i.e. LC Book and Profile information) can be transferred to another individual (i.e. a Custodian). A. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. 1. Auto-renewable subscription • Standard Plan Monthly ($ 13.99), Family Plan Monthly 1 ($ 19.99) and Family Plan Monthly 2 ($ 24.99). 2. Auto-renewable subscription • Standard Plan Yearly ($ 149.99), Family Plan Yearly 1 ($ 209.99) and Family Plan Yearly 2 ($ 249.99). 3. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Monthly 1 ($ 4.99) and Additional User Monthly 1 ($ 5.99). 4. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Yearly 1 ($ 54.99) and Additional User Yearly 1 ($ 64.99). 5. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Monthly 2 ($ 4.99) and Additional User Monthly 2 ($ 5.99). 6. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Yearly 2 ($ 54.99) and Additional User Yearly 2 ($ 64.99). 7. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Monthly 3 ($ 4.99) and Additional User Monthly 3 ($ 5.99). 8. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Yearly 3 ($ 54.99) and Additional User Yearly 3 ($ 64.99). 9. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Monthly 4 ($ 4.99) and Additional User Monthly 4 ($ 5.99). 10. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Yearly 4 ($ 54.99) and Additional User Yearly 4 ($ 64.99). 11. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Monthly 5 ($ 4.99) and Additional User Monthly 5 ($ 5.99). 12. Auto-renewable subscription • Add-ons • Additional Storage Yearly 5 ($ 54.99) and Additional User Yearly 5 ($ 64.99). B. Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. C. Current subscription may not be canceled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://www.legacymasters.com/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://www.legacymasters.com/terms Terms of use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Forethought Personal at freemium against Legacy Chronicles's subscription. Legacy Chronicles's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 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 Legacy Chronicles sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. 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 Legacy Chronicles. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Forethought Personal ships an update weekly, Legacy Chronicles every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forethought Personal | Legacy Chronicles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MobileAnswer, Incorporated | VF BUSINESS GROUP, INC |
Customer experience
Forethought Personal
Legacy Chronicles
In-app purchases
Forethought Personal
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Annual$29.991 Year
Legacy Chronicles
- Additional Storage Monthly 4$5.001 Month
- Additional Storage Monthly 5$5.001 Month
- Additional User Monthly 3$10.001 Month
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- Additional User Monthly 4$10.001 Month
- Additional User Monthly 5$10.001 Month
- Standard Plan Monthly14 Days trial$13.991 Month
- Family Plan Monthly 114 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Family Plan Monthly 214 Days trial$24.991 Month
- Additional Storage Yearly 4$50.001 Year
- Additional User Yearly 4$109.991 Year
- Additional User Yearly 3$109.991 Year
- Additional User Yearly 5$109.991 Year
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