Rest Easier vs Farewill.
What each one is
Farewill is one of the UK's best-known will writers, built around online wills, telephone will writing, probate and cremation services aimed at consumers. It does its core job well and at scale, and for someone who simply wants to write a will for themselves, it is a recognised option. Its model is transactional: you buy a product, you complete it, the relationship is largely done.
Rest Easier is a different shape entirely. It is an employee benefit HR distributes to staff at a fixed price per employee, designed to be used again and again across someone's working life. Wills sit alongside Lasting Powers of Attorney, pension tracing and nominee management, a wealth tracker for assets and liabilities, work benefit nominations, and a plain-English financial learning portal with an in-platform guide. The intent is ongoing financial wellbeing for a workforce, not a single completed transaction.
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How they differ in practice
The clearest difference is scope. Farewill is deliberately focused: a specialist in wills, probate and cremation, and that focus is a strength for the individual who wants exactly that. Rest Easier is deliberately broad: it treats a will as the entry point to a wider set of protections and financial tools an employee returns to as life changes, from finding a lost pension to nominating who receives a death-in-service benefit.
The second difference is the buyer and the distribution. Farewill sells to individuals one product at a time. Rest Easier is bought by an employer and rolled out to everyone, with single sign-on, a launch process designed to take days rather than weeks, and an employee's partner included at no extra cost. For HR, that distribution model is the point: it turns a personal admin task people endlessly postpone into a benefit the whole team can act on together.
The third difference is what HR gets back. Because Rest Easier is a benefit, it reports on outcomes. HR receives a quarterly report that is aggregated and anonymous, showing engagement and impact at a team level without exposing any individual's information. A consumer will service has no equivalent, because it was never designed to answer to an employer.
Pricing, compared plainly
The pricing models are not like for like, and it is worth being honest about that. Farewill charges per product: a fixed fee for a will, a separate fee for an LPA, and so on. For a one-off personal will, that can be perfectly economical. Rest Easier charges a flat £10 per employee per month for the entire platform, with the employee's partner included. The right way to compare them is by intent. If you want one will for yourself, a per-product price may be cheaper. If you want to give a workforce ongoing access to wills, LPAs, pension tools, a wealth tracker and financial education, a per-employee benefit is a different calculation entirely.
Who tends to choose which
An individual who wants a single will or LPA for themselves, with no need for anything wider, may find a focused consumer service like Farewill a natural fit. An HR, people or reward leader who wants to offer protection and financial wellbeing to a whole workforce, with simple distribution, partner cover included and reporting they can take to the board, is the audience Rest Easier is built for. The two are not really rivals so much as answers to different questions.
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This comparison is general information for employers and is not legal or financial advice. Competitor information reflects publicly available details at the time of writing and may change.
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