Start your probate

Start with the free suitability check. It takes a few minutes, needs no account, and tells you honestly whether the estate looks suitable for a self-help route or whether you should speak to a solicitor. Only after that does anything cost anything.

Jurisdiction: England & Wales. Last reviewed 13 August 2026.

The order we recommend

Run the free suitability check — no account, no payment.
Read what the package includes and what it does not.
Create an account to save your work.
Pay £349 once for the estate you are administering.
Work through the guided steps, registers, tax screening, application summary and document pack.

What you get for £349

A 26-step guided journey across registration, valuing, application and administration
Asset, liability and beneficiary registers with running totals
An Inheritance Tax screening against current thresholds
A printable application summary containing every answer the registry asks for
Six auto-filled correspondence templates for banks, creditors, registrars and beneficiaries
Printable estate accounts with per-beneficiary distributions and a signature block

Paid separately

The court fee of £526 is paid directly to HM Courts & Tribunals Service when you apply, and any Inheritance Tax is paid to HMRC. Neither is included in our fee.

What we are not

We are not solicitors, we do not act as your executor, and we do not submit the application on your behalf. We are a structured self-help service for people who are doing it themselves and want to do it properly.

Dealing with a straightforward estate yourself?

Our free probate checker helps you work out whether this estate appears suitable for a self-help route. It asks about jurisdiction, disputes and complexity, takes a few minutes, and needs no account.

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£349 one-off service fee if you go ahead. Court fee and any Inheritance Tax are paid separately.

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Apply For Probate Online is an independent self-help service and is not part of HM Courts & Tribunals Service or GOV.UK.

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