EmailToFuture alternatives: when the letter is for someone else
The short answer
Stay with EmailToFuture for a free email to yourself up to ten years ahead. Choose Carry Echo for a letter to someone you love, on paper with photos and your voice, up to sixty years ahead. Choose FutureMe for the longest-running name. Choose LetterToLater for cheap attachments with no ten-year limit. Choose Sealed or Letters Forever for a letter in the post.
EmailToFuture is a free way to email your future self, up to ten years ahead, and it can import letters from FutureMe. People like it: on 2 October 2026 it had 4.9 on Trustpilot from 245 reviews, most praising that it is free, clean and simple.
It is built around writing to yourself. The alternatives below are for when the letter is for someone else, or has to wait longer. We make Carry Echo, one of them.
When EmailToFuture is the right choice
- You’re writing to yourself, and you want it free.
- Ten years is far enough.
- You’re leaving FutureMe and want to bring your letters with you.
Why people look for an alternative
- Ten years. A letter for a newborn’s 18th birthday, or a wedding twenty years away, is further than it goes.
- Extras by the letter. Attachments and more than two recipients cost $1.99 a letter, or $0.80 each in a pack of ten; a few recent reviewers were surprised by that.
- What arrives. An email, which is right for a note to yourself and plainer than some people want for someone they love.
The alternatives
1. Carry Echo: a letter to someone you love
A letter on paper in one of five handwriting faces, with photos you place and a voice note or a video, delivered on a day up to sixty years ahead, at the part of the day you choose, on their clock. They open it from an email with no account. Text letters are free; a plan for photos, voice notes and video starts at $5.99 a month or $49 a year. It isn’t made for letters to yourself.
2. FutureMe: the long-running name
Letters by email up to 2076 from a service that has run since 2002 and says it has sent over twenty million. Writing to someone else needs an account; images and video need Premium, whose price wasn’t shown publicly on 2 October 2026.
3. LetterToLater: cheap attachments, no ten-year limit
Free to yourself; $3.90 a year, or $9.90 once, adds photos, video, audio and other recipients, delivered decades ahead. A small service.
4. Sealed or Letters Forever: a letter in the post
Sealed prints and posts a capsule for $9.98 (US, UK, Canada, EU), or emails it at 8am, first one free. Letters Forever keeps your handwritten letter and posts it on the date, up to ten years ahead, for $15.
At a glance
| Best for | Price on 2 October 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| EmailToFuture | A free letter to yourself, up to 10 years ahead | Free; extras $1.99 a letter |
| Carry Echo | A letter to someone you love, up to 60 years ahead | Text free; plans from $5.99 a month or $49 a year |
| FutureMe | The longest-running name | Text free; Premium’s price not shown |
| LetterToLater | Cheap attachments, decades ahead | $3.90/year or $9.90 once |
| Sealed | A capsule, printed and posted if you like | First free; posted $9.98 |
| Letters Forever | Your handwritten letter, posted | $15 a letter |
Checked on 2 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check each site before you decide. We make Carry Echo, so weigh this page accordingly. Sources: emailtofuture.com; trustpilot.com/review/emailtofuture.com; futureme.org; lettertolater.com/pricing; openwhenitstime.com; letters-forever.com/pricing; carryecho.com/en/pricing/.
Questions people ask
Can EmailToFuture send to someone else?
Yes, to up to two recipients free, or up to ten on a paid letter, up to ten years ahead. Carry Echo is built for letters to someone else, up to sixty years ahead.
What is the best way to send an email to someone years from now?
For yourself, EmailToFuture or FutureMe. For someone you love, on a day that matters to them, Carry Echo delivers it on that morning, and they need no account.