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- inAmber is operated by Capitalizt Ltd, company number 16890768. The company is registered in England and Wales at 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX.
- inAmber plans start from £4.99 a month, and you can stop any time. The person you write for never pays.
- The Keep subscription gives you 1, 2, 4 or 5 messages each month, paid monthly or yearly. You can also buy One message or The Year Ahead as a gift. Prices are shown in your local currency and include VAT.
- A message can be text, a voice recording or a video of up to 10 minutes, for one person. It is delivered on a date you choose, up to 25 years after you seal it.
- inAmber replies the same day to anything about a delivery, a message written for a child or something that feels wrong. Everything else gets a reply within one working day.
- inAmber emails you 14 days before every yearly renewal and again on the day it renews. On a monthly plan, you get a reminder at least every six months.
- When a plan ends, your unused messages stay yours for 12 months. Drafts are kept for 30 days from the day you have neither a plan nor unused messages.
Sources: Terms and Conditions, Help, Homepage.
Questions about inAmber
What does inAmber sell?
inAmber sells a way to keep messages for the people you love. You write, record or film a message, seal it, and inAmber delivers it on the day that matters to them, such as a birthday or Christmas Day, up to 25 years ahead. Ideas are grouped by the person you are writing for, from letters to a baby to messages for a grandparent, a friend or someone to thank.
How much does an inAmber plan cost?
inAmber plans start from £4.99 a month. Prices are shown in your local currency and include VAT. Your account, adding people, writing, recording, filming and Amber's help are free; you pay to seal, because sealing is what keeps a message safe until its day and delivers it. Each message you seal uses one from your plan, however many people it is for.
How do I cancel my inAmber plan?
You can stop your inAmber plan online in your account, at any time and in one step. The plan ends at the close of the period you have paid for, and no further payments are taken. Payments already made are not refunded, except under sections 4.6 and 4.7 of the terms. Messages you have already sealed are still delivered on their dates.
Can I change an inAmber message after it is sealed?
No. Once an inAmber message is sealed, its words, recordings and photographs arrive exactly as you left them. Until it is delivered, you can still change the day it arrives and watch or listen to it. You can also delete it before its day and record it again; the deleted message goes back to your plan. A delivered message cannot be changed or given back.
How does inAmber keep messages private?
Each inAmber message is locked with its own key the moment you seal it, and nobody at inAmber reads it. It would only be opened if you ask for it to be recovered, if the person it is for asks, or if the law requires it, and each time is recorded. inAmber follows UK GDPR, never sells your data, and lets you see, download or delete it at any time.
How does inAmber handle messages for children?
A child under 18 never gets a message straight from inAmber. You name the child's parent or guardian, who receives the message first, reads it and decides when to hand it over. They cannot change or delete your words. If the message has not been handed over by the child's 18th birthday, it goes to the child then. If the age is unknown, inAmber treats the child as under 18.
What is a Guardian at inAmber?
A Guardian at inAmber is someone you trust to say when an 'if and when' moment has arrived, such as a wedding morning that has no fixed date. They never see your messages and can step down at any time. For messages with a date, such as Christmas morning or an eighteenth birthday, you simply choose the date yourself.
Who is Amber at inAmber?
Amber is the inAmber guide. She asks you good questions and helps you find your own words, but she never writes for you. When you pick who a message is for, inAmber suggests ideas that fit, such as an 18th birthday or Christmas, and Amber asks a gentle question to help you start. You can also write your own messages without her.
Can I give inAmber as a gift?
Yes. The Year Ahead is a year of the Keep subscription at one message a month, bought as a gift. According to the inAmber terms, it does not renew unless the buyer chooses. Alternatively, you can buy One message, a single message bought once, if you only want to send one sealed message.
Can one inAmber plan cover the whole family?
Yes. Each message in an inAmber plan can go to anyone you choose, so one plan covers the whole family. Unused messages carry over while your plan is live, and on a yearly plan all your messages are ready on day one. A monthly plan gives you one month's messages on each payment date.
inAmber: messages in your own words, delivered on the days that matter
inAmber is a UK service run by Capitalizt Ltd in London. It lets you write, record or film messages for the people you love and has each one delivered on the day that matters to them, up to 25 years ahead. It suits parents, grandparents, partners and friends who want their words to arrive on a birthday, on Christmas Day or on a hard day. You can try it free and pay only when you seal a message. A voucher code from save-up.co.uk can make the plan you choose cheaper.
Ideas for every person in your life
The inAmber home page groups ideas by the person you are writing for, each with a gentle question to start. Some journeys follow a whole life, such as letters to a baby that lead up to what you want them to know at eighteen. Others cover one moment, such as the wedding morning. Amber, the inAmber guide, asks the questions but never writes for you.
- Letters to my baby, My Son, My Daughter
- My Mum, My Dad, My Grandparent
- My Partner, My Wife, My Husband, Before We Marry
- My Grandchild, My Godchild, My Niece, My Nephew
- Someone to Thank: a teacher, mentor, carer or colleague
- Open When: messages for days nobody can put in a calendar
Keep, One message and The Year Ahead
Keep is the inAmber subscription. It gives you 1, 2, 4 or 5 messages a month, paid monthly or yearly. One message is a single message bought once, and The Year Ahead is a year of Keep at one message a month, bought as a gift; it does not renew unless the buyer chooses. Prices are shown in your local currency and include VAT, and plans start from £4.99 a month. A message can be text, a voice recording or a video of up to 10 minutes, and each one you seal uses one message from your plan.
Sealed, encrypted and kept until the day
Each message is locked with its own key the moment you seal it, and nobody at inAmber reads it. The company says it would open one only if you ask for it to be recovered, if the person it is for asks, or if the law requires it, and each time is recorded. inAmber follows UK GDPR. For a child under 18, you name a parent or guardian, who receives the message first and decides when to hand it over. If it has not been handed over by the eighteenth birthday, it goes to the child then. For moments without a date, a Guardian you trust tells inAmber when the day has come.
How to save at inAmber
Everything before sealing is free: your account, adding people, writing, recording, filming and Amber's help, with drafts kept in your vault. You can finish your messages first and apply a voucher code only when you choose a plan. On a yearly plan, all the year's messages are ready on day one, and unused messages carry over while the plan is live. Extra messages from an ambassador or partner code are added after your first payment. If you stop, sealed messages still arrive and unused ones stay yours for 12 months.
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Help from a person, not a ticket
inAmber support works by email: you write to hello@inamber.ai, and a person reads every message. There is no chat window and no ticket number. Anything about a delivery, a message written for a child or something that feels wrong gets a reply the same day, before anything else; everything else gets one within one working day. If a message will not open, say so in the subject line, and nothing is deleted while it is being looked into. The founder built inAmber after the messages from someone close went quiet, so that voices are kept safe for the people who matter most.