Beqst is a UK estate-planning platform. You write your will, then keep your accounts, passwords, beneficiaries and final wishes in one secure place — and you control exactly what your executor sees when the time comes. It is built so the hardest day for the people you love is a little easier.

How long does Beqst take to set up?

About 10 minutes to write a will and add your first assets. Most people then spend another 30 minutes over the following week filling in the rest — pensions, insurance policies, funeral preferences, the people to call. The point is not to do it all at once. The point is that it stays current.

How much does Beqst cost?

Beqst is free to start. There is no card required to write a will, store your basics, and invite your executor. Paid plans add more vault storage, partner accounts and advanced features. The whole platform is designed to cost less per year than a single visit to a solicitor.

Who can see my Beqst plan?

You control everything. Executors are invited by email and told what you decide they should see — and they do not see anything until the time comes. A partner you choose can see your plan now. Beneficiaries are recorded but never given access automatically.

What happens with Beqst when I die?

Your nominated executor logs into a dedicated executor portal at beqst.com. They get a guided 13-step probate checklist, see every account and document you stored, see your will, your final wishes, and the people to contact — exactly what you decided in life. Not a shoebox of mysteries.

How Beqst works — watch or read

The two-minute version of Beqst, on video. Below, the same thing in text — so you can scan it, share it, or check the claims.

The 2am moment

"It's 2am. Your family is trying to log in to your bank. They don't have the password. They can't find your will. They don't know who to call."

This is what the video opens with — a dark, quiet login screen — because it is what happens, in some form, in most UK households when someone dies. A 2025 IRN Research study found 59% of UK adults don't have a valid will. A 2024 Estate Bereavement Index found 87% of bereaved families say the admin was the hardest part. Most people prepare for grief. Almost no one prepares for the paperwork.

If you have already started writing your will yourself, our plain-English How to write a will in the UK guide walks through the Wills Act 1837 step by step.

Why this matters now

"Last year, families paid £8.7 billion in inheritance tax — most of it avoidable with planning. And from April 2027, even your pension counts toward inheritance tax, pulling tens of thousands more families over the threshold."

The numbers in the video are not invented for dramatic effect. They are:

£8.7 billion — HMRC's 2025/26 estimate for total UK inheritance-tax receipts
April 2027 — the date pensions stop being IHT-free under the Autumn 2024 Budget
£5,000+ — typical Law Society figure for professional estate administration

Most of that £8.7 billion is paid because nobody planned for it. The point of Beqst is not to magic away the tax — it is to make sure the people you love can actually see what's owed, what's exempt, what's been gifted, and who to ask, so the family pays the right number and not a penny more.

What Beqst actually does

"Bequest is your estate copilot. Map your entire estate in one place — property, pensions, savings, debts, the people who matter. Build a legal will in under ten minutes, guided step by step. See exactly where you stand on inheritance tax, and track gifts so nothing catches your family off guard."

The product is five linked surfaces:

| Surface | What it does | |---|---| | Estate Overview | One dashboard of every asset, liability and beneficiary — with a live IHT estimate | | Will Hub | A guided will builder with witness validation, marriage-revocation detection and conditional clauses | | Gifting & IHT Tracker | Lifetime gifts classified as PETs/CLTs with taper relief automatically applied | | Secure Vault | AES-256 encrypted storage for documents, passwords, PINs and final wishes | | Executor Portal | A separate, grief-aware experience your executor only sees when you say so |

A full feature breakdown lives on the Features page.

What your family actually sees

"When the time comes, your executor gets a clear dashboard — every document, every account, every wish. Not a shoebox of mysteries. Life changes — new home, new baby, marriage, retirement. Bequest keeps your plan current, so you're always ready."

Most estate-planning tools end at "write the will". Beqst's design centre of gravity is the day after — when your executor walks in and needs to act. They see a guided 13-step probate checklist, every account and provider with the exact phone numbers to call, your final wishes, your personal letters. We wrote about the executor's day in The executor's first 48 hours.

The other half is staying current. A will written in 2025 and never touched is often invalid by 2030 — marriage revokes it, a new child changes who inherits, a new home changes the IHT picture. Beqst nudges you to update on life changes.

The promise

"No locked screens. No guesswork. Your will, your accounts, your final wishes — all in one place, right where your family needs them. Give them a map, not a mystery."

That is the whole point of the product. The closing line of the video is the line we hold ourselves to.

Start

Beqst is free to start. No card. You can write a will, set up the basics, and invite your executor in the same session.

Start for free at beqst.com →

If you'd rather see the full product first, the Pricing page lists every tier, and the About page covers why we built it. If you want to talk to a person, contact us.