The obituary, written well.
In minutes — not midnight hours.
Answer the questions you already ask at every arrangement conference. ObitWriter drafts a dignified obituary in three registers — traditional, warm, brief — using only the facts you give it. Edit, publish a beautiful page, and know the newspaper cost before you submit.
Three questions sections. Three drafts. Done before the coffee cools.
Answer what you already know
The intake mirrors your arrangement conference — family, career, faith, services, the story they want told. Skip anything; the writing works around gaps.
Three registers, instantly
Traditional for the paper. Warm & storytelling for the website. Brief when every word costs money. Pick one, edit freely, or ask for a revision in plain English.
Publish, print, and price it
One click publishes a beautiful obituary page with service details and a guestbook link. The newspaper version shows word count and estimated cost before you submit.
What you get with every obituary
Three registers
Traditional, warm & storytelling, and brief — from one intake. Regenerate any of them, any time.
Nothing invented, ever
Drafts use only the facts you provide. A missing detail is written around — never filled in with a guess.
Newspaper cost, up front
Live word and character counts, priced at your local paper’s rate — so the family decides with eyes open.
A beautiful published page
Photo, obituary, service details, and directions to the guestbook — on a clean page you can link from anywhere. See a finished example →
Plain-English revisions
“Mention her pecan pie. Make the ending softer.” Type it, and the draft updates.
The guestbook, attached
Pairs with our free Guestbook.Memorial — the obituary page invites every reader to sign and share a memory.
Every director knows the 11 p.m. obituary.
The family finally leaves. The paperwork is done. And somewhere before tomorrow’s first call, someone has to sit down and find the words for a whole life — again. ObitWriter doesn’t replace your judgment or your relationship with the family. It just does the first 90% of the writing, so you spend your late hour polishing, not staring at a blank page.
Writing an obituary by hand takes most of an evening, and the paper charges the family by the word. The obituary is the most-read thing your funeral home will ever publish. It should be written well — and writing it well shouldn’t cost you anything.
Why is it free?
ObitWriter.Memorial is built by the team behind Funeral AI — the same family as Guestbook.Memorial. The free tools are our introduction: use them on every case, forever, at no charge. If you love them, we’d be honored to show you what else we’re building. That’s the whole arrangement.
Questions funeral directors ask
Is it really free? What’s the catch?
Really free — unlimited obituaries, no credit card, no contract, no per-case fees. We build paid software for funeral homes under the Funeral AI name; the free tools are how we earn the right to introduce ourselves. More here.
Will it make things up about the deceased?
No. The writer is bound to the facts you enter — names, dates, places, stories. If something is missing it writes around the gap. You review and edit every word before anything is published, and nothing publishes without you clicking publish.
Can the family be involved?
However you prefer. Many directors draft during the arrangement conference and let the family read it before they leave. The published page is a private link until you share it.
What about the newspaper?
The newspaper format shows live word and character counts priced at your local paper’s per-word rate (set it once in Settings). Copy the text and submit it exactly as you do today.
Who owns the obituary?
The family and your funeral home. Copy it anywhere, publish it anywhere, export everything. We never sell or advertise against obituary data. Privacy policy.
Does it work with the guestbook?
Yes — paste a Guestbook.Memorial link (also free) and the published obituary invites every reader to sign the guestbook and leave a memory, from anywhere.
Retire the 11 p.m. blank page.
Your next obituary can be drafted in the next five minutes.
Write your first obituary — free