The Life Behind vs Remember Me QR: An Honest Comparison

We are one of the two companies in this comparison, so read it with that in mind and check anything you want to rely on. Everything below about Remember Me QR was taken from their own website on 27 August 2026.

They are a decent operation. If you had asked us to name a handful of UK suppliers doing this properly, they would be on the list. What follows is not an argument that they are bad. It is an argument about one design decision, which they and we have answered differently.

The short version

Checked 27 August 2026. The thirty-year figure assumes the £1.99 fee never rises, which is generous to them.

Where they beat us

Three places, and they are not small.

They are half our price today. £34.99 against £70. If the money available this week is the thing deciding it, that is the end of the argument and you should buy from them rather than wait until you can afford us. A memorial page that exists beats a better one that does not.

They say unlimited and we say 1,000. On paper they hold more. We have written elsewhere about why we distrust the word unlimited, but if you have thirty thousand photographs and you want them all in one place, they are offering something we are not.

£1.99 a year is a genuinely fair price. It is not a trap. It is a modest fee honestly described, and it is a great deal less than the suppliers charging £25 or £50 a year for the same thing. We want to be clear about that, because the argument below is not that the fee is greedy.

The one thing we disagree about

The argument is not about £1.99. It is about who pays it in 2054.

Think about what a recurring payment actually requires. Somebody must hold a card that has not expired, on an account that is still open, at a bank that still exists, receiving emails at an address they still read, and must go on doing that for thirty years. Most memorials are set up by the generation immediately above the one that will still be visiting.

The person who sets up the payment is, very often, not the person who will be alive to make the thirtieth one.

And renewals fail quietly. Nobody receives a letter saying that a memorial page has gone. There is no headstone toppling over to tell you. The failure is invisible until somebody stands at a graveside, scans a code, and gets nothing.

That is the case against a subscription on a memorial, and it applies equally at £1.99 and at £50. The size of the fee changes the cost. It does not change the failure mode.

What we do instead, and its own weakness

The page is included in the £70. Nothing to renew, nothing to remember, no card to expire, and no fee at any later point to continue it or extend it. It is there for as long as The Life Behind is trading.

We could have said forever. Plenty in this trade do. No company can honestly promise that, so we have written down what happens if we cannot carry on instead.

The weakness in our approach is the obvious one: our promise runs only as long as we do. Our terms of service commit us to giving every family at least 90 days' notice by email, and a full download of everything on the page, before anything goes offline. You can also download the lot at any time anyway, as ordinary photograph and video files on your own computer, without asking us. The photographs are yours either way, and no other supplier we have compared says what would happen in that situation at all.

The full reasoning, including what should happen if either of us goes out of business, is in how memorial QR codes work, and what happens if the company closes.

Forever, and what it is worth

Their site says the page will be there for family and friends to access forever. Ours says the page is included for as long as we are trading, and then says what happens if we are not.

Read carefully, those two statements are not as far apart as they look. Theirs describes an intention, conditional on an annual fee continuing to be paid. Neither company can actually promise forever, because neither company can promise to exist. The difference is that we have put the ending in writing: notice first, and your material back in your hands before anything goes.

We would rather be held to that. You may reasonably prefer the warmer word.

The plaque itself

Theirs is anodised aluminium, weatherproof, with no chance of rusting and a lifetime warranty. That is a sound choice of material and the rust point is correct.

Ours is 80mm brushed steel or brushed black, with the code engraved into the metal rather than printed on top, and a weatherproof backing. If it fades, rusts, corrodes or lifts off in normal outdoor use, we replace it free for as long as we are trading, and you need nothing but an order number.

Both will survive a British winter. What kills outdoor codes is not the metal, it is ink, and there is more on this in the durability guide.

Which to buy

Buy from Remember Me QR if the budget today is what decides it, or you genuinely need to store more than a thousand photographs, and you are confident somebody in your family will keep a small annual payment alive for decades.

Buy from us if you would rather pay once and never think about it again, you want a supplier who has written down what happens to the page if the business ends, and you would rather be told a real limit than an unlimited one.

If you do buy from them, one piece of advice worth more than anything else here: write the renewal into whatever your family already keeps, and download a copy of the page once a year. Do that and the difference between us mostly disappears.

Ours is the memorial plaque with memory page, £70, page included, nothing further to pay. If you want to see how the two compare against everyone else in the trade, there is a full table in memorial QR code companies compared.

Details about Remember Me QR were taken from their public website on 27 August 2026 and are quoted so that families can compare like with like. Prices and terms change. If anything here is out of date or unfair, email support@thelifebehind.com and we will correct it.