A funeral guestbook
guests sign on an iPad,
or from their own phones.

Keeps the handwriting, not just the text

Pressure-sensitive handwriting on a paper-warm screen. A signature keeps its character — and the book keeps the handwriting itself, not just the letters read out of it.

No Wi-Fi needed

A chapel basement, a graveside, a church with no network — the iPad saves every entry and syncs the moment a connection returns.

Guests can't leave the guestbook

Guided Access keeps the screen on the guestbook and nothing else. Guests can sign — not browse, not wander, not close anything.

Guests sign with any stylus, or tap a line and type — the page opens in pen and the choice is theirs. Handwritten entries become structured contact data — name, phone, email, address — even when the writing is messy.

Claim your home and the app creates your services — it imports the obituaries published on your website, and keeps importing as you post new ones.

Each service gets a unique QR code. Display it so guests — even those who couldn't attend — can sign from their own phone.

Set your iPhone out at the service and it becomes a memorial card — portrait, dates, and the code. Guests scan it and sign from their own phones.

One tap renders the whole book — cover portrait, every page of handwriting — as a PDF the family keeps forever.

Download any service's guest list as a clean spreadsheet — names, phones, emails, addresses — ready for your aftercare list or your CRM.

Print the guests who left a mailing address straight onto Avery® 5160 label sheets, 30 to a page — or 5162 for larger type, starting wherever a part-used sheet left off. No one retypes an address, and nobody is missed off the list.

Run it all from any browser — your phone, the front-office computer, an Android tablet. Entries and leads appear the moment families sign.

Lock the iPad to the guestbook during services. Guests can sign but can't navigate away, open Safari, or check email.

No Wi-Fi at the church? The app queues entries locally and syncs them when a connection returns.

Manage several active services at once. Switch with a tap — each has its own guestbook, entries, and QR code.

What do I provide to the family after a service?

A keepsake PDF of the whole guestbook, rendered in one tap — every name and message, with the original handwriting where guests signed by hand — for you to print and give the family. Because it is a file, it rides the same USB drive you already send home with the tribute video, so it arrives on something you are handing over anyway. You can also publish a lasting memorial page the family can visit and share.

What iPad do I need?

Any iPad running iPadOS 17 or later, with any stylus. A basic setup runs around $350 — a one-time cost, and often one you already have on hand. The app itself is free on the App Store, and it runs on iPhone too.

What does it cost?

Your first two weeks are free. After that it starts at $79 a month, and the plan you pick goes by how many services you hold a year — up to 125, 250, or 500. Every plan is the whole product, and paying for the year saves you two months. One pre-need family more than pays for it.

We tried iPads before and it didn't work. How is this different?

Earlier iPad guestbook apps made guests type on a keyboard — that was the only way in. This one keeps the paper motion: the page opens in pen, guests sign with a stylus, and AI transcribes the handwriting into contact data. A guest who would rather type still can; it is their choice to make, not the app’s. Guided Access locks the screen to the guestbook, it works offline, and staff need zero training. Sign the live demo yourself — it takes thirty seconds.

Will older guests actually use an iPad?

Yes. They sign with a stylus on a familiar guestbook layout — it feels like signing a book, not using technology. Guests in their eighties and nineties use it comfortably, and a guest whose hands will not hold a stylus can tap a line and type instead. The option some older guests skip is the QR code, and the iPad is there for exactly that.

We sell paper guestbooks. Doesn't this replace that revenue?

Keep the revenue — sell the digital guestbook as a line item on the arrangement, the way you sell the register book today, with no inventory to stock. The family still gets a physical piece: the keepsake PDF, printed and handed over. And the pre-need toggle brings in revenue no paper book ever did — families raising their hands to plan ahead.

How does the pre-need capture work?

An optional toggle at the bottom of the guestbook: “I'd like information about planning ahead.” Guests opt in quietly and privately. You get their name, address, and intent — as structured data, not a scrawled note.

What about chapels with no Wi-Fi?

It works completely offline. The iPad saves entries locally and syncs them when a connection returns — no hotspot needed during the service.

Do we need an iPad to start?

Not to start. Share each service’s QR code and guests sign from their own phones — or any tablet you already own. But the iPad is the experience this is built for: pressure-sensitive handwriting on a familiar page, locked to the guestbook with Guided Access. It’s on the App Store whenever you’re ready.