Funeral Guestbook
Digital guestbook for funerals
Free · In‑App Purchases
Guests sign on your iPad with a stylus or type — or from their own phones, with a code. After the service, you get every name, number, and address.
A guestbook for funerals and celebrations of life.
Funeral Guestbook replaces the paper guestbook with an iPad that guests sign at the service — or a code they scan to sign from their own phones. Every signature is transcribed into clean contact details your firm keeps long after the day.
Set up a service in a few minutes. Place the iPad where guests arrive, and they sign naturally with any stylus — name, phone, email, and address, just like a paper book. A guest who would rather type can tap a line and use the keyboard instead.
SHOW THE CODE, AND THE ROOM SIGNS
Your iPhone can hold the guestbook too. Set it out at the service or the celebration of life and it becomes a memorial placard — the name, the dates, and a code guests scan to sign from their own phones. Nothing for them to install, and every name lands in the same book.
ONE APP, EVERY IPAD
The same app runs every iPad you own. Pair one in seconds by scanning the code on its screen, then open signing for a service, pause the guestbook to a quiet screen between visitors, and lock the iPad so the signing page is all guests can reach. Watch signatures arrive live, with every contact captured.
FEATURES
• Contact capture — name, phone, email, and address from every guest
• Sign with any stylus, with pressure-sensitive ink
• Pen or keyboard — the guest chooses; the page opens in pen, and you can turn the choice off
• Handwriting transcribed into clean, structured contact details
• True offline mode — the iPad starts, shows the book, and takes signatures with no connection at all; entries sync exactly once when it returns
• Show the code on your iPhone — a memorial placard guests scan to sign from their own phones
• Sign from any phone — a QR code and link let guests add their names from their own devices
• See every iPad live (online, signing, paused), and open, pause, or lock it from anywhere
• Pair an iPad by scanning the code on its screen — it signs itself in
• Release the staff-code gate for someone stuck at the iPad
• Publish a memorial page the family can share
• Manage from any browser at app.funeralguestbook.app — every iPad, its status, and the book, live
• Obituary sync — publish an obituary on your website and the service can appear here on its own
• Guided Access lock — guests sign, but can't leave the app; staff exit with a hold and your firm's code, or unlock remotely from your phone or browser
• Multiple services from one iPad, switched with a tap
• In-app support conversation with a real person
One app for a funeral home running five rooms, and for a family holding one service: the iPad is the guestbook, your iPhone can be one too, and either way every name is kept. Purpose-built for funeral homes — not a generic kiosk with a guestbook skin.
By funeral.link — technology built for funeral homes.
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more • The demo book opens with the guest language switcher on, offering English and Español, and wearing the Still water cover.
• The typing keyboard’s keys sit as close together as the iPad’s own keyboard.
• The signing page keeps its full-height lines whenever there is room, so a mailing address has more space to write, and the “Tap here to type” boxes sit squarely on their lines.
• “Scan to sign from your phone” reads clearly on every cover.
• “By signing, you agree to the Terms” sits right under Submit again.
1.5.6 8h ago
• The guest language switcher offers English and Español. Other languages are yours to add: in Customize, under “Let guests choose the screen’s language”, include Tiếng Việt or العربية for the services that need them. A book held in another language always offers it.
• When more languages are included than the row can hold, it keeps English and Español and a “More languages” button opens the full list.
• The phone signing page gets the same switcher, top right, when you let guests choose.
1.5.5 14h ago
• Updated plans and prices: up to 125 services a year from $299 a month, up to 250 from $499, up to 500 from $999 — or pay for the year and get two months free. The prices in the app match funeralguestbook.app.
• Guests can sign in Arabic. The signing screen reads right to left for that signature, and the book returns to its own language for the next guest. Set it for the whole service in Customize, or a guest can switch to it while signing.
• The keepsake, thank-you cards and envelopes print Arabic names in their own script.
• With four languages on offer, the language row fits beside Submit on every iPad.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.5.4 1d ago
• Guests can sign in Vietnamese. Set it for the whole service in Customize, or a guest can switch to it while signing.
• Signing in on the iPad keeps your email and the “Email me a code” button in view while you type, and the screen scrolls when it needs to.
• A new switch under Customize asks guests how they knew the person when they sign on their phone. It stays off unless you turn it on.
• When a cover has been made for the person, “None” now sits right beside it in Customize.
• On a cover photo, the back button has its own backing so it stays easy to see.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.5.3 Sep 25
• The welcome screen leads with the funeral home door again. A family’s door is one tap below it.
• A link from your admin opens the conversation in the app, on the screen it is about.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.5.2 Sep 7
• When you decide to keep your family’s book, the three things keeping gives you are spelled out right where you decide.
• The first screen says what you are starting: one line under “Who are we remembering?”
• Tapping a notification takes you to the thing it is about.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.5.1 Sep 5
• A guestbook for your own family’s service: name the person, choose a portrait, and the book is ready — free to start, and yours to keep.
• Guests sign from their phones by pointing a camera at the code. View it full screen, save it, or send the link.
• Link your phone to keep the book with you, and edit their details any time — name, dates, and photo.
• Every signing screen opens with the keyboard and the guest code showing, the way the demo does.
• The book speaks Spanish when the family does, from the first screen to the last.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.5.0 Sep 2
• Signing in is quicker and clearer, and any screen that lists services can be pulled down to refresh.
• Switching funeral homes now carries everything with it — the name, address, and logo on screen are always the home you're in.
• Have an access code? There's now a place for it right on the subscription screen.
• Share a book's QR code straight from the share sheet.
• Buttons are easier to tap across sign-in, the family book, and Home.
• Smaller fixes throughout, including cleaner keepsake covers.
1.4.0 Aug 29
• The signing screen now keeps the iPad awake and at full brightness for the whole service, so it never dims or locks between guests.
• A veteran cover for the signing screen, chosen per service alongside linen, morning light and still water.
• The signing keyboard is now full width, matching the size and spacing of the iPad's own keyboard.
• The "clear line" control no longer appears in the saved signature page.
• The subscription screen fits on one screen, with all three plans side by side.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.3.8 Aug 28
• All three plans now appear on the subscription screen right away, instead of waiting for prices to load.
• The signing keyboard's function keys draw their symbols in the right place on every key.
• A note for the family: a new line guests can fill in after they sign, off by default. Turn it on in Customize.
• In the demo, the thank-you option is back and plays what you pick, and the demo panel's language switcher (English / Español) sits top right.
• Switching between your funeral homes now switches the book and the logo along with the banner.
• The iPads board shows when each stand was last heard from.
• Larger tap targets on Sign in, the family book, and Home.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.3.6 Aug 26
• The signing keyboard is now the iPad's own: the same keys, layout, and sizing as iOS, with letters, numbers, and symbols on 3 layers, on iPad and iPhone.
• Funeral homes with more than 1 location can give each location its own logo, and each iPad shows the mark of the location it stands in.
• Adding a location by hand during setup now keeps the location you chose.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
1.3.5 Aug 25
• The signing screen's typing card now draws its own big-key keyboard, so it is there however a guest taps the field, with a finger or an Apple Pencil, and nothing slides in and out.
• On the phone's iPad remote, "On its own" now brings the iPad all the way home: the services list, with the service still selected.
• A funeral home with more than one chapel can add its other locations while setting up, before it ever signs in.
1.3.3 Aug 24
• On your phone, each iPad's screen is a remote for that iPad: the active service with its portrait, and 4 places to show — the guestbook, the person's page, Paused, or On its own. The page is the step back from the guestbook.
• Choosing a service for an iPad opens a full sheet with portraits and a search. The one already on that iPad leads the list.
• The iPad's line on your phone says where it is: "Home screen", "Eleanor Calloway's page", "Signing · Eleanor Calloway", "Paused".
• Highlight an iPad from your phone: a brief ochre frame lights up the one you're controlling, so 5 unlabeled iPads are easy to tell apart.
• Customize the signing screen from your phone, with the same options the iPad has. A change on either one shows on the other within a moment.
• The iPad's name, its location, the lock and Remove live behind the gear at the top right of its screen.
• 3 new covers behind the person: Linen, Morning light and Still water, in Customize › Cover.
• The family's own line under the name and dates can be typed in "Edit name & dates".
• "I've signed here before" fills the page for a returning guest.
• The 4 ruled lines show their placeholder words again.
1.3.0 Aug 24
• The signing screen reads as 2 panes: the person on the left, the signing on the right. Pen / Keyboard and the English / Español choice sit at the top of the signing side, on the same row as Submit, with a flag on each language.
• New in Customize: "Start with the keyboard instead of the pen", under "Let guests type instead of writing". Every service then opens in Keyboard, with the Keyboard button first.
• The typing card sits above the keyboard the moment it opens, with no animation to catch up on.
• The typing card's buttons say where they go: "Continue to your email address", "Back to your name". On a mailing address, the button first takes you to the city, state, ZIP line.
• Turning "Let guests type instead of writing" off while a guest is on the keyboard puts the page back on the pen instead of leaving it stuck.
• The portrait is larger by default. "Use a smaller portrait" in Appearance brings back the smaller one.
• The dates under the name are bigger: 1 line, sized to the name.
• In portrait, a cover runs edge to edge.
• "Let guests switch the screen to Spanish" is on the first screen of Customize. In Fields, the options follow the order of the lines on the page.
• The text fields in Customize keep their words in the middle of the box.
• If the keyboard fails to appear while a line is open for typing (an Apple Pencil touch, or a Bluetooth keyboard nearby, can hide it), the app brings it back.
• Fits every iPad, including the mini, with everything turned on.
1.2.10 Aug 23
• Guests can sign with a pen or type. A Pen / Keyboard choice sits under the decedent on every signing screen. Tap Keyboard and each empty line offers "Tap here to type"; what a guest types is set on the page in script, and in the keepsake. The page still opens in pen, and Customize can turn the choice off.
• The typing card is 1 button: Next line until the last line, then Done. A phone number gets its own keypad. A mailing address gets 2 lines, and a whole address typed on 1 line lands as street, then city.
• Customize opens on the 4 settings you reach for in a demo — typing, the QR code, your logo, Español — with everything else 1 tap behind "More customizations". Reset covers all of it.
• The line under the dates is now called the tribute line, sits in Appearance, and says where it shows.
• Subscribe is on the first screen of the iPad's menu.
• A funeral home can rename itself from the app.
• Every button and switch in the app is at least 44pt, so a tap lands where you meant it.
• Signing in on the phone: a retired device no longer hides a live session, and the sign-in screen's exit says what it does.
• "Service tomorrow" asks the calendar, not the clock, so it is right late at night.
• A funeral home lookup that is still running says so, instead of "nothing found".
1.2.9 Aug 22
• 3 plans on Subscribe, sized by the services you hold a year: up to 125, 250, or 500, with 1 monthly/yearly switch over all of them. More than 500 opens a conversation with us, not another price.
• Every service carries its date: "Service today at 2:00 PM", "Service tomorrow", "Service was Aug 12". On the Services list and on Home, the soonest stand out.
• Recent searches on Find your funeral home: homes you picked before wait under the field, 1 tap to reopen. Kept on this device only.
• Tap a name to open their page: portrait, the guests' code, then Open the signing screen, View Signatures, Share. Pinning the iPad to a family is a button now, not a confirmation dialog.
• Both lists lead with a search field once they outgrow the screen. No match? Start a service for that name right from the field.
• The Signatures row in the menu opens every signature your home has collected, matching its count.
• From your phone: tap a name and open it for signing, and the iPad opens that family's book. Change who's signing while a book is already open, and the iPad switches right away. Ending a service on the iPad tells the phone at once.
• Switching signing on from the phone with no service open asks who's signing, instead of refusing.
• "Is this your funeral home?" names the building you picked, with its street address, and says when it's part of a larger company.
• Sign out signs out, every time. On iPhone, Subscribe and Help are on the first screen of Settings.
• Every on/off toggle shows its off state clearly, and the buttons on the iPad home are larger and farther apart, so Share no longer opens Print.
1.2.8 Aug 22
• Find your funeral home, watch your recent services fill in from your website, and tap "Open your guestbook" — you're in. No account and no card needed. Add your email or start a subscription whenever you're ready, from inside.
• A cover behind the portrait on the signing screen — 4 treatments to choose from in Customize's new Cover tab, or none.
• Sign out now truly signs out on a paired iPad.
• Share the guestbook right from the iPad, with a link a family's phone can open.
• The Customize panel stays open while you make changes, saving a default keeps it open too, every text field has a quick clear, and the old "line beside the portrait" is now "A line in their memory."
• Strokes stay on the signing surface, never across the portrait, and the language switcher is reachable again.
• More than 1 location? Tap your home's name to switch. The book follows, and a switch from your phone reaches the iPad live.
• Searching for your home no longer jumps when the keyboard opens.
1.2.5 Aug 21
• The demo signing screen can now show your home's logo, with portrait sizing steps and cleaner type in the Customize panel.
• Setting up? Search results get more room, and adding your funeral home by hand is one clear tap.
• Clearer wording across the operator screens.
1.2.2 Aug 18
• Yearly billing has arrived — choose monthly or annual right on the Subscribe screen.
• Your signature book now goes all the way back: older entries load as you reach them.
• Sign-in shows it's verifying the moment your code is complete.
• Picking up where you left off is smoother — the app remembers your funeral home through sign-up.
• Steadier signing on Android, and polish across the signing screen.
1.2.1 Aug 18
• Joining your funeral home's account now signs you in the moment the home's door is open — no more waiting for an approval that already happened.
• The guest language switcher is now a choice you make: turn it on in Customize for families who want Spanish, and it stays tucked away otherwise.
• Signing out on your phone now asks before it acts.
• Clearer multi-location pricing when you subscribe — what's covered, and what each additional location costs.
• Polish throughout the signing screen and demo.
1.2.0 Aug 17
• One simple plan: $149 a month for unlimited services — and families hosting a single service can still buy just one. The app now matches our pricing everywhere.
• Scan the iPad's sign-in code with your phone's camera and it just works — no more staying signed out.
• Two iPads, two services — assigning the second no longer interrupts the service already running.
• The Signatures tab now shows every book at your home, newest first, updating live as guests sign.
• Your custom signing-screen labels now appear exactly as you wrote them.
• "Not now" always moves you forward — never back to the screen you just left.
• Demo polish: signatures replay at true speed, and preview switches explain what they need.
1.1.11 Aug 15
• 2 iPads, 2 services — each iPad can now be assigned its own service, so two signing stands work side by side.
• Signing responds instantly: the Submit button answers the tap, even while the signature is still saving.
• On the signing screen: clear a single field without starting over, switch to Spanish for just one guest's signature, and put your home's own words on the labels.
• A locked, paused iPad now opens with a staff PIN.
• Error screens now offer a way back, a held QR scan explains itself, and the email field can be cleared with one tap.
• From the phone: add the decedent's photo, and tap any signature to see the handwritten ink.
1.1.10 Aug 14
• Scanning a "Link another device" code now opens the pairing screen. If you already had the app installed, it used to open and do nothing at all.
• Choosing a funeral home that already has an account now offers to add you to that account, instead of starting a second, empty one alongside it. If you do want a separate account, that choice is still there.
• Reliability improvements and smaller fixes throughout.
1.1.9 Aug 12
• The signing screen now asks guests to "Please print your name," and the customizations you make are saved as your funeral home's defaults — set them once, and every service starts that way.
• Your funeral home's logo now heads the full-screen thank-you a guest sees after signing. Add or replace it under Account, from the iPad or your phone.
• More of a Spanish service is now in Spanish: the guestbook screens a family opens on their own phone, the terms a guest agrees to when they sign, and the phone's own sign-here screen.
• Moving the iPad to another service is clearer and easier to find. The guestbook you move away from stays open, so late signatures still arrive and every name is kept.
• Fixed a problem that could stop setup after subscribing when an Apple ID already carried a subscription.
• Signatures now submit dependably on slow venue networks — a stalled connection can no longer leave an entry hanging.
• Reliability improvements and smaller fixes throughout.
1.1.8 Aug 12
• Signing keeps working when the internet doesn't — every entry is saved safely on the iPad and delivered automatically once the connection returns, so services in venues without wifi never miss a signature.
• The app opens with your funeral home front and center, and the demo now signs exactly like a real guestbook.
• Reliability improvements and smaller fixes throughout.
1.1.7 Aug 11
• The demo book opens with the guest language switcher on, offering English and Español, and wearing the Still water cover.
• The typing keyboard’s keys sit as close together as the iPad’s own keyboard.
• The signing page keeps its full-height lines whenever there is room, so a mailing address has more space to write, and the “Tap here to type” boxes sit squarely on their lines.
• “Scan to sign from your phone” reads clearly on every cover.
• “By signing, you agree to the Terms” sits right under Submit again.
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