Your Contacts are the people (and, yes, pets) your plan revolves around. Add the important people in your life once, with their real names, and Myend links them everywhere they belong: as a message recipient, a beneficiary for a belonging, a trustee who gets access to your account after you’re gone, or the person who receives instructions for an item in your Vault.
When are contacts used in Myend?
Once someone is in your Contacts, you can point to them from almost anywhere in your plan:
- Messages: write a goodbye letter or message and choose which contact it’s for. It stays private and is only delivered when the time comes.
- Belongings: assign a specific item, collection, or keepsake to the contact you want to have it.
- Vault: for each account or credential you store, assign who gets access and what should happen to it (for example: delete it, memorialize it, hand over full access, extract the data or funds first, or leave a special request).
- Legacy Contacts: any contact can be promoted to a Legacy Contact, the trusted person (or people) who carry out your wishes after you’re gone.
Because so much of your plan points back to this one list, adding a contact once and reusing it everywhere is much faster than typing the same name and details into every message, belonging, or vault item separately.
Adding contacts
You can build your Contacts list in two ways:
- Sync from your phone. Myend only imports the contacts you specifically choose: nothing is pulled in automatically, and there’s no limit on how many you can add this way or by hand.
- Add manually. If you’d rather not sync at all, you can add every contact by hand instead. You can also add new contacts on the fly, right from wherever you need one: while writing a message, assigning a belonging, or filling in a Vault item, there’s an option to add a new contact without leaving what you’re doing.
A good starting point, if you’re not sure where to begin: add 3–5 key people first (close family, a close friend, maybe a professional like your accountant or attorney), then come back and fill in the rest as you work through the rest of your plan.
Use official names
If you plan to name someone as a beneficiary (for a message, a belonging, or a vault item), list them under their official legal name, not a nickname. It keeps things unambiguous for whoever is carrying out your wishes later. And yes, if you want to leave something to a pet, you can add them as a contact too.
What happens with a Legacy Contact invitation
Turning a contact into a Legacy Contact is a deliberate, separate step: being in your Contacts list doesn’t automatically give anyone access to anything. Here’s how it works:
- Add the person as a contact (if they aren’t already).
- Mark them as a Legacy Contact.
- Myend sends them an email invitation on your behalf.
You can have more than one Legacy Contact, and it’s worth choosing someone you deeply trust: usually a spouse, an adult child, a sibling, or a close friend.
What a Legacy Contact can and can’t do
While you’re alive, a Legacy Contact cannot see your plan, change anything, or delete content. Accepting the invitation doesn’t open any door early. Access only unlocks after your Proof of Life check-ins lapse and you notify Myend (or your Legacy Contact does, on your behalf, when the time comes). At that point, once access is granted, a Legacy Contact can view your finalized directives, read the messages you’ve left, see your contact list, and reach any Vault items or belongings that were shared with them, nothing more.
Myend will never message your contacts on your behalf unless you’ve specifically set that in motion: either by sending a Legacy Contact invitation, or by the delivery of a message or belonging you’ve already assigned to them.
After access is granted
Once a Legacy Contact’s access has been confirmed, your other beneficiaries start hearing from Myend too: they’ll get notifications about the wishes and messages you stored for them, so the people you were thinking of when you built your plan actually receive what you left them.