Most Australian online will services charge you again every year to keep your own will editable. eQUILL is $139 once. No subscription, no annual fee, no renewal, no "membership". You pay one time and the will is yours.
Here's the part that isn't obvious when you're comparing prices. Several services advertise a one-off price, then start charging around $15 a year after the first 12 months. That fee doesn't buy you a new will — it buys the right to keep editing the one you already paid for. Stop paying and your will stays legally valid, but you generally lose the ability to log in and change it.
That matters because a will is not a set-and-forget document. You update it when you marry, separate, have a child, buy a house, or your executor's circumstances change. A subscription model charges you at exactly the moments life makes an update necessary.
Over twenty years, $15 a year is another $300 on top of the purchase price — more than doubling what you thought you paid.
| Service | Upfront | Ongoing | 20-year total |
|---|---|---|---|
| eQUILL | $139 | $0 — ever | $139 |
| Willed | $159 | $15/yr after 12 months | ~$444 |
| Safewill | $160–$359 | $15/yr after 12 months | ~$445–$644 |
| Gathered Here | Free | Free | Free |
| Solicitor-drafted will | $400–$2,000+ | Fee per update | $400–$2,000+ |
Competitor pricing as published on their own websites and checked August 2026; subject to change — check their current pricing before deciding. 20-year totals assume the annual fee continues at the stated rate.
We'd rather say this plainly than pretend otherwise: Gathered Here is genuinely free, and for a simple estate it produces a valid will. If price is your only consideration, use it.
What you should understand is how free is funded. Free services typically monetise by referring you to funeral, probate or estate-administration partners — which means your details, and your family's, have commercial value at the worst possible moment. We charge $139 instead, so there's nothing to monetise. Your data isn't the product.
Yes. Australian law doesn't care whether your will was typed by a solicitor, printed from a website, or handwritten — it cares that the document is in writing, that you signed it, and that two witnesses were present at the same time and signed while watching you. Meet those requirements and you have a valid will.
The one thing an online will cannot do is sign itself. Printing and signing it correctly is the step that makes it real, and we give you the instructions for your state. See will requirements by state for the specifics where you live.
An online will suits a straightforward estate. It is the wrong tool if you have a blended family with competing claims, business or trust interests, assets overseas, a beneficiary with a disability who needs a protective trust, or a family member likely to contest. In those cases $139 spent online is a false economy — get proper advice. We'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong product.
None. $139 once. There is no renewal, no membership, and no charge to keep the will you paid for.
Your will stays valid forever — a signed will doesn't expire. The 30 days is the window for free changes to the document you just bought. After that, if your circumstances change substantially, you make a new will.
No. A validly executed Australian will is generally recognised across states. If you move and your circumstances have also changed, review it.
You can work through the questions and see exactly what your will will say. Payment comes before you download and print the final document.
Because the routine part of drafting a simple will is structured question-and-answer, and software does that part without charging for an hour of a lawyer's time. The legal thinking went into the template once, up front.