Glow vs Evaheld

Glow is a private family archive where relatives contribute stories, photos, and voice notes together. Evaheld is a digital legacy vault where you organize documents, passwords, medical wishes, and estate records before a crisis, with a Story & Legacy section for letters and stories. They solve different problems, and the right choice depends on what you need to do first.

At a glance

The table below reflects only what Evaheld's published pages describe and what Glow offers today. Cells left blank mean the feature was not described in the sources available to us - not that the feature is absent.

Feature	Glow	Evaheld
Primary use case	Private family archive: collecting and preserving stories, photos, and voice notes from multiple family members	Planning vault: organizing documents, passwords, medical wishes, and estate records
Where content lives	Private, shared family space in Glow	Cloud-based secure vault
Family story capture	Yes - family members add memories, photos, and voice notes to a shared archive; a guest without an account can add a story to one photo	Yes - letters, stories, voice notes, and family history through Story & Legacy
Medical and care planning	Not a Glow feature	Yes - power of attorney, advance care directives, health care proxy, care preferences
Stores passwords and documents	Not a Glow feature	Yes - passwords, executor notes, and important documents in one place
2FA and account access planning	Not a Glow feature	Yes - documented in Evaheld Essentials for executor access after death
Multiple family contributors	Yes - invited family members each add to the archive; guests can add a story to one photo	Yes - private Rooms and shared stories for family collaboration
Pricing	Join the founding families (see tryglow.ai)	Free vault advertised; check evaheld.com for current plans

Evaheld's features and pricing may have changed; check their site for the current version.

Where Evaheld is the better choice

Evaheld was built around a specific problem: the people who love you may not be able to act on your behalf if something happens suddenly, because the right documents are missing, passwords are unknown, and your medical wishes were never written down. Their published pages address this directly.

If you need to record your power of attorney for health decisions - your wishes, the person you've appointed, and the supporting documents - Evaheld's Health & Care feature is built for that. The same applies to advance care directives and health care proxy arrangements.

If you need to document your passwords and account access so that an executor can manage accounts after you die - including the 2FA codes that otherwise lock families out - Evaheld Essentials is designed to hold that information in a structured, accessible way.

If you need to store a will, organize executor notes, or prepare documents before meeting with a lawyer, Evaheld's cloud-based vault organizes those records alongside the rest of your estate planning.

Glow does not organize passwords, store legal documents, or record medical wishes. These are real strengths. If your priority is getting your own affairs in order before a crisis, Evaheld may be the right tool.

Where Glow is the better choice

Glow is a private family archive. Not a planning tool, not a document vault - a place where the people who knew someone can put what they remember in one shared space.

If you want to collect stories and voice notes from aunts, cousins, and grandchildren in one place, Glow lets family members each add their own memories to a shared archive, and a relative without an account can add a story to a photo through a guest link. Nobody has to be in the same room, or even the same country. One person might add the photo of the house they grew up in; a cousin who lives overseas might add the story that goes with it.

If you have photos that need context - names, dates, the story behind the moment - Glow gives family members a place to add that detail together, so the knowledge doesn't sit with one person and disappear when they're gone. If you're starting from a box of old prints, our guide on how to scan old family photos without losing a weekend walks through a practical method for getting them into a shareable format.

The difference in approach is worth naming plainly. Evaheld centres on documents and plans, with stories alongside. Glow gathers the human details that make a life story real. A voice note from your grandmother telling you how to make her soup is not a document. It belongs somewhere the family can find it and add to it - and in Glow anyone in the family can record a voice note on a photo or memory.

If your priority is capturing and sharing family stories, Glow is built for that work. The 60 questions to ask your parents while you still can is a good place to start if you're not sure where to begin.

Pricing, side by side

Glow is currently available through a founding families offer. There is no published price list at the time of writing; you can see the current offer at tryglow.ai.

Evaheld's pages advertise a free vault ("Free Forever"), so check their site for any paid plans. Check evaheld.com directly for their current plans and pricing.

Pricing may change. Check each site for the current version before making a decision.

How to decide

Two questions usually settle it.

Do you need to organize passwords, medical wishes, legal documents, and executor notes before something happens? Evaheld answers that question more directly. It was designed for exactly that kind of structured, crisis-prevention planning.

Do you need to gather stories, photos, and voice notes from the people who know your family - before those people are gone, or before the details fade? Glow is built for that. It brings multiple family members into one shared archive and lets each of them contribute what they remember.

You don't have to choose just one. Some families use both: Evaheld to organize documents and plans, Glow to gather and preserve stories. The two tools sit in different parts of the same broader task. If you've recently lost someone and are trying to figure out where either tool fits into everything else, our guide to the first weeks after a parent dies covers what needs to happen now and what can wait.

Start by asking yourself: what do I need to do first - organize what I have, or gather what I'm missing?