How it works
How a letter gets from you to them.
Your Feelings. Your Words. Your Choice. Six steps, and you only have to think about the first three. Here is exactly what happens to a letter between the moment you write it and the moment it reaches the person it was meant for.
MyWishLetter is not just about scheduling letters for the future. It is about making sure your words, wishes, memories, and legacy reach the people who matter to you — even when you are no longer there to deliver them yourself.
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Write it
Write it in your own words, and attach photographs, a voice note, a video or a document if you want to. Nothing is published, and nothing is sent while you are still working on it — a letter stays a draft until you schedule it.
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Choose who receives it
Add recipients by email or WhatsApp number. They do not need an account and they do not need the app. Each recipient is stored against the letter and only ever receives that letter.
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Choose when
A fixed date and time, or when your account goes quiet for a period you set. On Premium and above a date can repeat every year or every month — a birthday letter that arrives every year, from one letter you wrote once.
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We hold it
The letter is stored encrypted at rest and is not publicly addressable. You can edit it, reschedule it or delete it at any point before delivery. Deleting it removes the content, not just the listing.
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It is delivered
On the scheduled day, the recipient gets an email or WhatsApp message telling them a letter is waiting, with a private link to read it. The notification itself never quotes your content.
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You get confirmation
Every delivery attempt is recorded — queued, sent, opened, or failed — and you can see the trail for each letter. A failure is retried rather than dropped silently.
The things people actually ask
- Can I change a letter after scheduling it?
- Yes, any time before it is delivered. Once it has been delivered it cannot be recalled, in the same way an email cannot.
- What if my recipient's email address stops working?
- The delivery is marked failed and retried, and you are notified so you can correct the address. Your letter is not lost.
- What if I stop paying?
- Nothing is deleted and you keep access to read, export and delete everything. Five days after a paid plan ends, new letters pause and anything scheduled — including inactivity delivery — is held rather than sent, until the plan is renewed. Letters already delivered stay with their recipients. The Free plan keeps scheduling and inactivity protection at its own capacity, so this only applies to a paid plan that has lapsed.
More in the full FAQ, and the specifics of how we store things in security.
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