Overview

What this guide covers

BlockWill is where you record what you own and who should receive it, so your estate reaches the right people. Everything sensitive is encrypted on your own device before it leaves it, which is why so much of the app is built around keys rather than passwords.

This guide walks through the app screen by screen, with a short clip for each task. It covers the customer app. If you are a legal partner working with BlockWill, you want the Partner Portal Guide instead.

The four things to understand first

Your vault is encrypted on your device. BlockWill stores your files and asset details as ciphertext and never holds the key that opens them. That is the whole point, and it is also why losing every unlock method means losing the contents.

A login passkey and a vault key are different things. A login passkey gets you into your account. A vault key opens the encrypted vault inside it. Keeping more than one vault key is what stops a lost laptop from becoming a lost estate.

A BlockWill Secret is a vault key too. It is a 16-character passphrase that works from any device, and the app treats it the same as a hardware or biometric key. Your first vault is set up with one.

Stakeholders are the people around your estate. Beneficiaries inherit, executors act when something happens to you, guardians look after minors, and asset managers help you maintain the vault while you are very much still here.

Where to start

Just signed up? Follow Your first hour. It is the whole setup in order, with a short clip at each step, and it is the page to work through rather than read.

Already set up? Use the sidebar. Set up, in order holds the one-time work in more depth than the walkthrough gives it. Everyday tasks holds what you come back for later: locking a vault, switching between vaults, reading who opened what, changing your currency.