call "dibs!" on your inheritance
Catalog the family heirlooms, let your family stake their claim, and write down your own final wishes — all in one shared, private workspace on Google Drive or iCloud.
Photograph and log heirlooms, collectibles, and valuables in one running inventory that everyone in the family can see, including what makes the item sentimental. No more guessing whether that bowl came from your great grandmother, or a yard sale three years ago. Output neat lists for presenting to an estate attorney or insurance company.
Each family member can mark what they're interested in inheriting — settling things out in the open, months or years before anyone has to guess who wanted the clock.
Funeral plans and final wishes live right alongside the inventory, so nobody has to reconstruct them from memory or frantically search for documents. Create a professional-sounding obituary with prompted fields and biographic information.
Death Dibs runs both on your phone, best for walking room to room snapping photos, and on your computer for the slower work of typing everything out.
Screenshots coming soon
Screenshots coming soon
no company server, ever
There's no Death Dibs cloud to get breached, sold, or shut down. Everything you enter is saved into a folder on your own cloud storage service, like Google Drive or iCloud. If your family already trusts that service with photos, it can store these documents as well.
a note from the author
I've spent the last decade as a Medicolegal Death Investigator, the person responsible for documenting the circumstances of unexpected deaths. While performing my duties I've stood in a lot of living rooms with families who were suddenly tasked with making urgent decisions, arguing about things nobody had ever written down: who's paying for the funeral, whether Dad wanted to be buried or cremated, what funeral home to use…
All too often I've witnessed people stress over these important decisions, frantically searching for documents in a cluttered desk, unable to reach the one person in the middle of the night who was supposed to be in charge of everything, all while they should be grieving with their loved ones. Prior planning could have avoided the chaos and kept everyone on the same page during those first few critical hours.
Then, in the days and weeks following someone's death, there are inevitably conflicts surrounding heirlooms. The grieving period is not the time to be arguing over who gets what. Like making funeral arrangements, those conversations are so much easier to have while everyone's still sitting around the table, not standing over a casket. These conflicts are something I have experienced both personally and professionally. I urge all of my family and friends to have these difficult discussions ahead of time, and I hope this app can help your family be prepared for the inevitable, too.
— Brandon Mailand, D-ABMDI
Death Dibs is in early access. These tags are blank because the families using it haven't written their story yet — yours could be first.
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a family's story
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a family's story
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a family's story
one-time purchase, no subscription
Price: $TBD
Everyone is tired of subscriptions. Pay once and get a lifetime activation code for you and your spouse. The apps are free to download, so you can include as many heirs as you need and share the file with them via Google Drive or iCloud. Payments aren't live yet — leave your email and we'll let you know the moment they are.
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