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Online Will Makers Compared: Price, State Coverage, and Output Format

2026.07.03
Three years ago I didn't know what an "entry-level individual will package" even meant. I know now, because I've bought four of them. This is the chart I wished existed the week after Dad died, when I was trying to figure out which service would print something Indiana courts would actually recognize, and wouldn't cost me a lawyer's hourly rate to find out. I've gone back through it since, checking every price and state list against each company's own pages instead of trusting whatever number I remembered from two years ago. Two of these companies had quietly raised their prices. One had folded into a completely different product.
Comparison of 7 online will makers by base price (flagged as a flat one-time purchase or a monthly subscription), state coverage, and output format, with Quicken WillMaker's Louisiana exclusion marked.
Online will makers compared — price, state coverage, and output format, by provider. Descriptive reference, not legal advice. Free to embed with credit to willpicks.com (CC BY 4.0).

Comparison of Online Will Makers

Prices below are for the entry-level individual will package unless I've noted otherwise. Every number here is pulled straight from the provider's own pricing page, or from a review site I could actually verify against that page, as of this week.

Provider Base Price (Individual) State Coverage Primary Output Format
Trust & Will $199 (Source) 50 States PDF Download / Physical Mail
Quicken WillMaker (Nolo) $109 (Source) All except LA PDF (Online App or Downloadable Software)
LegalZoom $129 (Source) 50 States PDF / Physical Mail
FreeWill Free (Source) 50 States + DC PDF Download
Rocket Lawyer $39.99/mo (Source) 50 States + DC (Source) PDF (download)
LawDepot $35/mo (Subscription) (Source) 50 States PDF / Editable Word
GoodTrust $149 (Bundle) (Source) 50 States Digital Vault + Downloadable Documents

One name you might expect to see here and won't: Willing.com. It used to be a flat $69 will with overnight mail delivery, one of the cheaper options on this list. When I went back to double-check the price for this update, the link redirected straight into MetLife Legal Plans, a monthly legal-membership product with no listed price for a standalone will (Source). I'm treating that one as retired rather than guessing at a number that doesn't exist anymore.

State Coverage and Jurisdictional Limitations

Louisiana is the one that trips people up. My brother nearly bought WillMaker for his own paperwork before I caught it. WillMaker doesn't cover Louisiana at all, because Louisiana's estate law runs on the old Napoleonic code instead of the common-law framework every other state uses (Source). FreeWill's documents are built to hold up in all fifty states plus DC (Source), and Trust & Will's will product covers that same fifty-state map (Source). None of that tells you whether Indiana's two-witness rule or California's notarization habits apply to your specific paperwork. The software asks. You still have to read what it prints before you sign it.

Output Formats and Delivery Methods

Every one of these lands as a PDF at some point, that part's universal across all seven. Where they differ is what else you get. LawDepot's completed documents download as PDF or Word (Source). I used that Word export exactly once, to fix a typo on Mom's guardian-designation page instead of paying for another revision round through the online wizard. That's the one feature I actually leaned on. Trust & Will (Source) and LegalZoom (Source) will also print and mail you a signature-ready copy if you pay for it. I skipped that every time. My branch has a printer with actual toner in it, so paying a stranger to mail me the same PDF never made sense for my situation, though I get why someone without library access might feel differently.

Notice: I'm not a lawyer. Never been to law school, never held a notary commission, never sat through an estate-planning seminar. Everything above comes from library-desk research and three years of running my own family's paperwork through these tools, tested from Indiana, a state that only needs two witnesses, no notary, and doesn't recognize a handwritten will at all. Your state might ask for all three. Read the fine print your specific software gives you for your specific state before you sign anything, and if your estate is over $500,000, if you've got a blended family, or if you're naming a special-needs beneficiary, have an actual estate attorney look at the draft before it goes in the folder. That's not optional advice. It's the same thing I told my brother after we found out Mom's safe deposit box didn't have a co-signer on it and the bank wouldn't just hand it over. A will that looks finished but was witnessed wrong for your state is worse than no will at all, because nobody finds out it's invalid until the courthouse says so. Please talk to a qualified attorney before you rely on anything above for your own estate.

Last verified: 2026-07-17

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