Confinity vs Permanent.

Of every tool we compare ourselves to, Permanent is the one closest to our heart. It is a mission-driven nonprofit; you genuinely own your data; the one-time-fee-into-an-endowment model is a serious, honest answer to the question every memory service should answer — what happens when the company is gone? We admire it without reservation, and if pure, durable, you-own-it preservation is what you want, it is excellent and you should use it. Where we differ is texture and shape. Permanent is an archive you deposit into: upload your photos, documents, audio, and they are kept safely, shareable with family folders. Confinity is an ongoing, warm family experience you live inside — voice-first entries written in your own words, connections that form on their own between the people and places you name, a remembrance layer that is gentle with grief, and an annual cloth-bound Yearbook posted to your door. Both believe your memories should outlive any service; Permanent does it through an endowment and your ownership, Confinity through export, legacy transfer, and a Trust CIC. We part ways on warmth and on living, multi-person family life — not on values.