Best Online Wills in Australia 2026: 9 Platforms Compared

Quick Answer

The best online Will in Australia depends on how complicated your estate is and on who you can actually talk to if something goes wrong. Prices run from $20 for an Australia Post paper kit and $69 at State Trustees Victoria, up through the Legal123 Online Will Kit and Will Hero at $99, Willed at $159, and Safewill at $160 for its Essentials Will. Almost all of them produce a legally valid Will for a simple estate, provided you print it and sign it in front of two witnesses who are not beneficiaries. The bigger difference is that only two options on this page are Australian law firms, and only one of those gives you a lawyer on the phone when you have a question.

Legal123 has been a licensed Australian Incorporated Legal Practice since 2009 and has helped over 10,200 Australian businesses. Our Online Will Kit is $99, drafted by Australian lawyers, yours to keep and reuse, and it comes with phone and email support from the firm that wrote it. For anything more involved, our lawyer-drafted Will Writing Service is a fixed fee from $699. We are on this list too, and we have still named the situations where a competitor beats us.

This guide compares nine options on price, legal review, updates and who each one actually suits.

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Best Online Wills in Australia: All 9 Platforms Compared

Here are all options side by side. All prices were checked on 17 August 2026.

Platform	Price	Legal review	Updates	Power of Attorney	Is it a law firm?	Best for
Gathered Here (now EveryWill)	Free	$39 optional extra	Free for life	Offered in the interview, price not published	No. Technology platform	A simple estate at zero cost
Australia Post kit	$20 single, $28 couples	None	Buy a new kit	No	No. Retail product	The lowest-cost paper option
State Trustees Victoria	$69	Backed by State Trustees legal staff	Not published	Not part of the online Will	Government-backed public trustee	A government-backed option, available Australia-wide
Will Hero	From $99	Included, professional review	12 months	NSW only	No. Templates by Wills specialists	Value with review included
Legal123 Online Will Kit	$99	Not included; it is a template you complete	Codicil form included, template is reusable	$99 separate template	Yes. Licensed Incorporated Legal Practice	A lawyer-drafted document you own outright, with the firm contactable by phone
Willed	$159 single, $238 couples	Included	12 months, then $15 a year	$99, or $89 added to a Will	No. Willed Law Pty Ltd is the law firm	A Will bundled with probate and funerals
Safewill	$160 Essentials, $359 Customised, GST included	Included via Safewill Legal	Update anytime	Available, price on their pricing page	No. Safewill Legal is an affiliate firm	The most established platform
Chamberlains	$199	Yes, it is a law firm	Not published	Not published	Yes. Australian law firm	A law firm at a fixed online price
Legal123 Will Writing Service	From $699	Lawyer drafts the Will for you	Quoted per matter	Included, with Enduring Guardianship	Yes. Licensed Incorporated Legal Practice	Estates too complex for any DIY option

Bare also operates in this market and includes legal review, but it does not publish a price. You have to request a quote, so we cannot place it in the table on a like-for-like basis.

What is the best online Will kit in Australia?

There is no single best online Will kit, because the right answer changes with the complexity of your estate rather than the quality of the platform.

If you want a document drafted by an Australian law firm that you own outright, our Online Will Kit is $99, includes a Codicil form for future changes and comes with free support from the firm that wrote it. Will Hero is also $99 and includes a professional review, though it is a platform rather than a law firm. Chamberlains is $199 and is a law firm.

If price is the only thing that matters, Australia Post sells a paper kit for $20, and there is a free online option, though neither gives you anyone to call. If you want a government-run service, State Trustees Victoria is $69, but read the executor terms first. And if your estate has a business, a trust or a blended family in it, none of these is the answer, and you should have a solicitor draft it.

The question to ask yourself is not “which platform is best” but “how complicated is my estate”. Get that right, and the platform choice follows.

How we compared these platforms

We checked every price on the provider’s own website on 17 August 2026 and recorded what each one publishes rather than what it advertises. Where a provider does not publish a figure, we have said so instead of estimating.

We take no referral fees, affiliate commissions or listing payments from any platform on this page. That matters in this category because several comparison sites that rank for these searches are paid by the platforms they rank.

Legal123 is one of the nine, so read our inclusion with that in mind. We have tried to earn your trust by naming the specific situations where a competitor is the better choice, and there are several. Where we claim an advantage, it is checkable: we are a licensed Incorporated Legal Practice, and you can telephone the firm that drafted your document.

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Will Kit vs Online Platform vs Solicitor: Which Do You Need?

This is the decision that actually matters. There are three ways to get a Will in Australia, and they differ far more in what happens when something goes wrong than in what they cost.

Feature	DIY Will kit	Online platform	Solicitor-backed online service	Solicitor
Typical cost	$0 to $30	$99 to $199	$199 to $359	$500 to $2,500
Who checks it	Nobody	A legal team reviews your answers	A lawyer reviews the document	A lawyer drafts the document
Drafted for your state	Rarely	Usually	Yes	Yes
Handles a blended family	No	Poorly	Partly	Yes
Handles business assets	No	No	Limited	Yes
Handles a family trust or SMSF	No	No	Limited	Yes
Updates	Buy a new kit	Free for 12 months, then a fee	Varies	Quoted per change
Execution guidance	Printed instructions	Step-by-step prompts	Step-by-step prompts	Often supervised
Evidence if the Will is contested	None	Platform records only	Some file notes	A solicitor who can give evidence about your capacity and intentions
Advice about what you should do	None	None	Limited	Yes

The last two rows are the ones people overlook. A Will is a document that only gets tested after you are gone, and if someone challenges it, the question becomes what evidence exists about your capacity and intentions when you signed.

A solicitor who took your instructions can give that evidence. A questionnaire cannot.

What is the average cost for a Will in Australia with a lawyer?

A solicitor-drafted Will in Australia typically costs between $500 and $2,500, depending on the complexity of your estate and where you are. A simple single Will sits at the lower end, while mirror Wills for a couple with a trust or business interests sit at the upper end.

Our own Will Writing Service is a fixed fee from $699, which covers two mirror Wills with Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship documents included. We publish that figure because hourly billing makes it impossible to compare the options honestly.

The gap between a $99 platform and a $699 lawyer is real, but it is not a gap in the paper. It is a gap in whether anyone asked you the right questions before the paper was drafted.

Can you write your own Will without a lawyer in Australia?

Yes. There is no legal requirement in any Australian state or territory to use a lawyer to make a valid Will, and a handwritten Will on a sheet of paper can be legally binding if it meets the formal requirements.

Those requirements come from state legislation: the Succession Act 2006 (NSW), the Wills Act 1997 (Vic), the Succession Act 1981 (Qld), the Succession Act 2023 (SA), the Wills Act 1970 (WA), the Wills Act 2008 (Tas), the Wills Act 1968 (ACT) and the Wills Act 2000 (NT). The core rules are similar across all of them, but they are not identical, and South Australia replaced its Wills Act 1936 with the Succession Act 2023 on 1 January 2025. A template written for the wrong state, or against repealed legislation, is exactly the kind of problem a law firm catches and a questionnaire does not.

Being allowed to do it yourself and being well advised to do it yourself are different questions. In our experience working with over 10,200 Australian businesses, the people who get into trouble are not the ones who used a cheap document. They are the ones whose situation needed a conversation and never had one.

Which option suits your situation?

Use these three rules rather than a budget.

• Your estate is simple. You rent or own one home, you have no business or trust, your family structure is straightforward, and nobody is likely to contest. Any option on this page can produce a valid Will. At this level, the deciding question is who you can call if you get stuck, which is why we would point you to our $99 Online Will Kit rather than a cheaper option with no one behind it.
• Your estate is simple, but you want a lawyer’s document. Same situation, but you want a document drafted by a law firm that you own outright and can reuse. That is what our $99 Online Will Kit is for.
• Your estate is not simple. You own a business, hold company shares, control a family trust or SMSF, have a blended family, own property overseas, or somebody is likely to challenge your Will. Skip every DIY option, including ours and use our custom Will drafting service or another solicitor to draft it properly.

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The Case For and Against DIY Will Kits

Are online Will kits any good?

For a genuinely simple estate, yes. A well-built online Will kit produces a document that meets the formal requirements of your state’s legislation, and having one is enormously better than dying without a Will.

The limitation is not the quality of the document. It is that a questionnaire can only work with what it is thought to ask. It has no way of noticing that your business partner is also your brother-in-law, that your superannuation will not pass under your Will at all, or that your adult child from a previous relationship may have a claim.

The better online platforms handle common situations well. None of them handles uncommon ones, and most people who have an uncommon situation do not realise it.

Are Will kits legally binding in Australia?

Yes, provided the Will is executed correctly. Australian law does not care whether your Will came from a solicitor, a $160 platform or a $20 booklet from the post office. It cares about four things:

• The Will is in writing
• You signed it in the presence of two witnesses, both present at the same time
• Both witnesses signed the Will in your presence
• Neither witness is a beneficiary of your Will

Get those right and a free Will is as binding as an expensive one. Get them wrong, and an expensive one can fail.

One further trap catches people every year. In most Australian states, a gift to a person who witnessed the Will can be void, even though the Will itself stays valid. Your beneficiaries should never be your witnesses, and neither should their spouses.

What is the most common mistake people make with a Will?

The most common mistake is a witnessing error, usually a beneficiary or a beneficiary’s spouse signing as a witness. It is easy to do, because the people standing nearest you when you sign are usually the people you are leaving things to.

The second most common is never updating the Will. Marriage revokes a Will in every Australian state unless it was made in contemplation of that marriage, and divorce affects it too. A Will written before a marriage, a divorce, a new child or a property purchase may no longer do what you think it does.

The third is assuming a Will covers everything you own. Superannuation is usually held in trust and paid at the trustee’s discretion unless you have a binding death benefit nomination. Jointly owned property normally passes to the surviving owner outside the Will altogether.

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Australia Post and Retail Will Kits

Australia Post kits are the option most often searched for and least often covered by comparison sites. Here is what they actually are.

Are Australia Post Will kits any good?

Australia Post Will kits are adequate for the simplest possible estate and nothing beyond it. The product is a printed booklet containing a Will form that you fill in by hand, with no legal review, no state-specific drafting and no support if you get stuck.

Australia Post is a retailer here, not a legal service. The kit’s own product page describes it as a booklet to help organise your affairs and save on legal fees, and offers no guidance on validity in your particular state.

For $20 it does what it says. If your estate is simple enough for an Australia Post kit to be suitable, a free online platform will usually serve you better, because it at least adapts its questions to your answers.

How much does a post office Will kit cost in Australia?

The Australia Post Will kit costs $20.00 for the single pack, reduced from $24.99, and $28.00 for the couples pack, reduced from $34.99. Both were listed as out of stock on the Australia Post website when we checked on 17 August 2026.

Those prices are for the printed booklet only. There is no legal review, no update service and no refund path if the document turns out not to suit your circumstances.

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Government and Public Trustee Options

Almost no comparison of online Wills includes the government options, which is strange, because they are among the cheapest and best-backed choices available.

State Trustees and public trustees: the option nobody compares

State Trustees Victoria offers an online Will for a flat $69, and Australians in any state can use it, not just Victorians. The headline price is genuinely low. What you need to understand before you take it is how the organisation gets paid, because it is usually not from the $69.

Every state and territory has an equivalent public trustee, and several offer free or heavily discounted Wills to pensioners and seniors. This is where you need to read carefully, because a cheap Will at the front end can carry very large fees at the back end.

Public trustees commonly prepare a Will at low cost or no cost on the condition that they are appointed as your executor. Nothing is charged while you are alive. The fees are charged against your estate after you die, and they are typically calculated as a percentage of the value of everything you own, sometimes with additional asset-management and annual administration fees on top.

On a normal Australian estate with a house in it, a percentage-based executor fee can run into many thousands of dollars, and on larger estates it can reach tens of thousands. Against a solicitor’s one-off drafting fee of a few hundred dollars, the difference is not close. Your family pays it, out of what you left them, at the worst possible moment.

We are not suggesting anything improper is going on, and these organisations are properly regulated. But a $69 or free headline price sitting next to an undisclosed percentage of your estate is a genuinely difficult thing to compare, and in our experience it is very often not understood by the person writing their first Will in their seventies or eighties. Before you sign anything, ask for the executor fee schedule in writing and work out the dollar figure against your own assets. Compare that number, not the Will price.

What happens if the platform you used shuts down?

Nothing happens to your Will, because the signed paper original is the Will and the platform’s copy is not. Australian courts deal with the physically executed document, so as long as your executor can find the signed original, a platform closing its doors does not affect the validity of your Will.

What you lose is the convenience layer: stored copies, update tools and reminders. If the platform held the only copy of your document and you never printed and signed it, you have lost the draft, and you never had a Will in the first place.

This is a quiet argument for owning your document rather than renting access to it. It is also an argument for telling your executor where the signed original is kept, which is the single most useful thing you can do after signing.

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When You Should Not Use an Online Will

We sell an online Will kit, and we are telling you not to buy it if any of the following applies. This is the section most comparison pages leave out.

Which situations need a solicitor-drafted Will?

You need a solicitor to draft your Will if your circumstances include any of the following. These are not edge cases; between them, they cover a large share of Australian adults over forty.

• A blended family. Children from a previous relationship, a current partner, and any tension between them. This is the single most common source of contested estates in Australia.
• A business. Company shares, a partnership interest, or a sole trader business with real value or ongoing obligations.
• A family trust or a self-managed super fund. Trust assets are not usually yours to give away in a Will, and SMSF death benefits are governed by the fund deed and your binding nomination, not your Will.
• Property owned overseas. Different jurisdictions, different succession rules, and sometimes a separate Will required in that country.
• Someone likely to contest. An estranged child, a former partner, or a dependant you intend to leave out. Leaving somebody out properly is a drafting skill.
• A beneficiary with a disability or special needs. Protective trust structures are almost never available in an online questionnaire.
• Jointly owned property you intend to leave to someone else. Jointly owned assets usually pass to the surviving owner regardless of what your Will says.

Our Will Writing Service is a fixed fee from $699 and includes two mirror Wills, Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship. If you would rather use a local solicitor, do so. The important thing is that somebody qualified asks you the right questions before anything is drafted.

Do you need a Power of Attorney as well?

Yes, for most people, and it is a separate document that your Will does not cover. A Will takes effect when you die. A Power of Attorney takes effect while you are alive but unable to make decisions for yourself, which is the situation families are far more likely to face.

Coverage varies a lot across the platforms on this page:

• Will Hero: Power of Attorney in New South Wales only
• Willed: $99, or $89 when added to a Will
• Safewill: available as a separate product
• State Trustees: not included in the $69 online Will
• Legal123: Power of Attorney Form at $99, or included in the Will Writing Service

If you are comparing on price, compare the bundle you actually need rather than the headline Will price. A $99 Will plus a $99 Power of Attorney is a different number from a $159 Will with attorney documents included.

How do you make sure your Will is actually valid?

Print it, read it in full, then sign it in front of two adult witnesses who are present at the same time and who are not beneficiaries or the spouses of beneficiaries. Both witnesses then sign in front of you, and everybody uses the same pen and the same session.

Do not use a digital signature, do not sign the pages separately, and do not send it to witnesses to sign later. Do not staple, unstaple or attach anything to the document afterwards, because puncture marks and paperclip impressions raise questions about missing pages when a Will is admitted to probate.

Store the signed original somewhere safe and dry, tell your executor exactly where it is, and keep a copy separately. In our experience, the Wills that cause problems are rarely badly drafted. They are lost, unsigned, or witnessed by the wrong person.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Australia Post Will kit legal?

Yes. A Will completed using an Australia Post kit is legally valid provided it meets the formal requirements of your state’s succession legislation, which means it is in writing, signed by you, and witnessed by two adults at the same time who are not beneficiaries.

The kit itself carries no legal status. It is a printed form, and the validity comes entirely from how you complete and sign it.

Is a free online Will as good as a paid one?

For a very simple estate, a free Will can be legally valid, but free and suitable are different things. The free option in this market is generated by the same kind of guided questionnaire the paid platforms use, so the document is comparable. What differs is everything around it.

A free service is not free to run, so somebody else is paying for it. In this market, that is usually the funeral directors, celebrants and charity partners listed on the same platform, which is disclosed but worth knowing when you are being guided through decisions about your estate. Paid platforms generally include a legal review in the base price, and a law firm gives you a document drafted by lawyers plus someone qualified to call. For $99, most people are better off with a Will they own outright from a firm they can contact.

Do online Wills cover Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship?

Not usually, and not automatically. Most online Will platforms sell Power of Attorney as a separate document at an additional cost, and coverage is often limited to particular states.

Enduring Guardianship, which appoints someone to make health and lifestyle decisions if you lose capacity, is even less commonly included. Our Will Writing Service includes both alongside two mirror Wills in the fixed fee from $699.

Can I update an online Will after I have signed it?

Yes, but you cannot simply edit the signed document. You either make a new Will that revokes the old one, or you make a codicil, which is a formal amendment that must be signed and witnessed with the same care as the original Will.

Crossing something out on a signed Will does not change it and can create doubt about the whole document. Our Online Will Kit includes a codicil form for exactly this reason.

Where should I store my Will once it is signed?

Store the signed original somewhere safe, dry and findable, and make sure your executor knows exactly where it is. A home safe, a bank safe deposit box, or your solicitor’s document storage are all reasonable choices.

The most common failure is not theft or fire. It is an executor who cannot find the Will, which can leave an estate to be distributed as though you died without one.

Which online Will platforms are actually law firms?

Very few. Of the nine options compared on this page, only Legal123 and Chamberlains are Australian law firms. Safewill, Willed, Gathered Here, Will Hero and Bare are technology platforms, several of which use an associated or affiliate law firm to carry out the legal review. Australia Post is a retailer, and State Trustees is a government trustee company rather than a law practice.

Those structures are legitimate, and the platforms disclose them. It simply means the business you buy from and the firm doing any legal work are two different entities, and your relationship is with the platform, not the lawyers.

The practical difference shows up the moment you have a question. On a platform, support is a help desk that can tell you how the software works but is not permitted to tell you what to do. With Legal123, you are dealing with the law firm itself, and phone and email support on our templates comes from that firm. If the question turns out to need actual legal advice rather than help with the document, we can give you that too, on a 30-minute Book-a-Call for $99, with no subscription and no retainer.

For most people writing a Will, that is the single most valuable difference on this page. A Will is not a purchase you repeat often enough to get good at, and being able to pick up the phone and speak to the firm that drafted the document is worth more than a slicker interface.