RemembrLink vs. Legacy.com: Which Online Memorial Is Right for Your Family?
Cameron Williamson
RemembrLink vs. Legacy.com: Which Online Memorial Is Right for Your Family?
When someone you love passes away, choosing where to publish their obituary or create an online memorial can be difficult.
Legacy.com is one of the best-known obituary websites. RemembrLink offers a different approach focused on affordable, personalized and interactive online memorials.
Neither service will be right for every family.
This comparison explains some of the differences so you can decide which option better fits what you're looking for.
RemembrLink vs. Legacy.com Pricing
One of the biggest differences is price.
At the time of this comparison, Legacy.com lists its direct online obituary at $159.
A RemembrLink memorial costs $39.99 as a one-time payment, with no monthly or annual subscription fees.
That makes RemembrLink $119.01 less, or approximately 75% less, than Legacy.com's $159 direct online obituary.
Prices and features can change, so families should always verify current information before purchasing.
What Does Legacy.com Include?
Legacy.com's direct online obituary includes unlimited text and unlimited photos.
It also includes an interactive Memorial Page with an optional Guest Book where friends and family can share memories and condolences.
Legacy also emphasizes its search-engine visibility, which can be valuable for families who want an obituary to be easily discovered online.
Legacy.com is an established obituary platform and may be particularly appealing to families whose priority is broad obituary discovery or unlimited photos.
What Does RemembrLink Include?
RemembrLink takes a somewhat different approach.
For $39.99 one time, families can create a personalized online memorial that includes:
- The choice to write the obituary yourself or receive AI-assisted writing help
- Guided questions designed to help you remember important details about your loved one's life
- Up to five photos
- Personalized memorial backgrounds
- Social-media sharing
- Interactive comments and video contributions from friends and family
- An ad-free memorial experience
- No monthly or annual subscription fee
RemembrLink is designed not simply as a place to publish an obituary, but as an interactive place where family and friends can participate in remembering someone's life.
Obituary Writing Assistance
Writing an obituary can be difficult, particularly while grieving.
RemembrLink allows you to write everything yourself if you already know what you want to say.
If you need assistance, its AI-assisted writing experience uses guided questions about subjects such as family relationships, hobbies, personal background, accomplishments and meaningful memories.
Those prompts are intended to make it easier to gather the information that can turn an obituary into a more personal story.
Photos
This is one area where Legacy.com has an advantage for families who want to upload a large number of photographs.
Legacy.com's $159 online obituary currently includes unlimited photos.
RemembrLink currently allows up to five photos with a memorial.
If having unlimited photographs is one of your most important requirements, Legacy.com's offering may therefore be the better fit.
Interactive Memorials
Both services provide ways for other people to participate in remembering someone.
Legacy.com's Memorial Page can include an optional Guest Book where visitors share memories and condolences.
RemembrLink provides a more social-media-style experience where friends and family can share comments and videos.
Which approach you prefer depends on the type of memorial experience you want to create.
An Ad-Free Approach
One of the principles behind RemembrLink is simple:
We don't believe your loved one's memorial should be an advertising space.
RemembrLink memorials are therefore designed to be ad-free.
We want friends and family visiting a memorial to focus on the person they're remembering.
This philosophy was one of the reasons our family created RemembrLink in the first place.
Which One Should You Choose?
Legacy.com may make more sense if your priorities include an established obituary platform, broad online discovery or the ability to include unlimited photographs.
RemembrLink may be worth considering if your priorities are affordability, an ad-free experience, AI-assisted obituary writing, personalization and interactive participation from friends and family.
The price difference may also matter to families.
At the time this article was written:
RemembrLink: $39.99 one time
Legacy.com direct online obituary: $159
Ultimately, the right choice isn't necessarily the service with the most features or the biggest name.
It's the one that gives your family the experience you want at a price you're comfortable paying.
Why We Created Another Option
RemembrLink was created after our own family experienced the process of trying to honor our father after he passed away.
We wanted something affordable, personal and easy to share.
We wanted help creating the obituary when finding the right words was difficult.
We wanted friends and family to be able to participate.
And we didn't want advertisements distracting from the person we were remembering.
We couldn't find exactly the experience we wanted.
So we created RemembrLink.
A Different Way to Remember
Legacy.com has helped many families publish and discover obituaries.
RemembrLink isn't trying to pretend that history doesn't exist.
We're simply offering families another choice.
For families who want a $39.99 one-time, personalized, interactive and ad-free online memorial, RemembrLink provides an alternative designed around remembering the person rather than advertising to the people visiting them.
Because when someone visits a memorial, we believe the focus should remain on the life being remembered.
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