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So Tell Us Pricing Explained: What You Get for €5 a Month in 2026
Table of Contents
- The short answer
- What €5 a month actually covers
- What's included in the plan
- The 14-day free trial
- How So Tell Us compares to alternatives
- Who pays, and who doesn't
- Larger groups
- Is it worth it?
- FAQs
The short answer
So Tell Us costs €5 per month for a group of up to five people. One person pays. Everyone else joins for free. There's a 14-day free trial, and no credit card is required to start.
That's the entire pricing model. No tiers, no per-seat fees, no in-app purchases.
What €5 a month actually covers
For €5, your whole group gets a recurring private letter. Every few weeks, three to five warm questions land in everyone's inbox. Each person answers in their own time — a sentence, a photo, or a voice note. On the send day, one compiled letter arrives with all the answers inside.
No app to download. No feed to scroll. No notifications.
The letter is the product. €5 is what it costs to keep it coming.
What's included in the plan
Everything below is included in the €5 plan, with nothing held back:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Up to 5 people in the group | Yes |
| Recurring question prompts (3–5 per letter) | Yes |
| Text, photo, and voice note replies | Yes |
| Automatic voice note transcription | Yes |
| Compiled group letter on a fixed send day | Yes |
| Zero push notifications | Yes |
| Private by default, no public profiles | Yes |
| Hosted in Germany, EU-only subprocessors | Yes |
| No ad tracking inside the app | Yes |
| Letters never used to train AI | Yes |
| 14-day free trial, no card required | Yes |
| Cancel anytime in two clicks | Yes |
Nothing is locked behind a higher tier. What you experience in the trial is exactly what you get.
The 14-day free trial
The trial runs for 14 days with no credit card required. If it's not for you, you walk away without ever entering payment details.
If you want to continue, you add a card and the €5 monthly charge begins. Cancellation takes two clicks and can happen at any point — no fees, no locked-in periods.
How So Tell Us compares to alternatives
Pricing transparency varies quite a bit among tools trying to do something similar.
Letterloop, the closest direct competitor, runs a freemium model with in-app purchases and no clearly listed pricing. It also requires a mobile app on iOS or Android, which brings push notifications and app-store friction along with it.
Marco Polo is free to download but video-first and feed-based. It requires the app, has no structured question prompts, and produces no compiled digest.
Groups.io is built for clubs and mailing lists, not small intimate groups. There are no question prompts, no fixed send cadence, and no letter format.
So Tell Us is the only option here with a flat, publicly listed price, no app to install, and voice notes treated as a proper reply format — not an afterthought. The five-person cap is a deliberate choice. It keeps the letter feeling like something worth reading.
Who pays, and who doesn't
One person sets up the group and pays the €5. Everyone else receives the questions and the letter without paying anything.
So if you want to start a letter with your parents and a sibling, you pay €5. They just answer questions by email.
That structure matters. It removes the awkwardness of asking four other people to sign up for a paid service. You cover it, they get the letter.
Larger groups
The standard plan covers up to five people. If your group needs more room, you can write directly to Richard, the founder, at richard@so-tell-us.com. Custom plans are available.
Is it worth it?
That depends on what you're comparing it to.
If the alternative is a group chat where real news gets buried under reaction emojis and nothing quite lands, then €5 starts to look like a different kind of value altogether.
Anna in Düsseldorf said it plainly: "Since we started, every phone call begins differently. No more 'all good, and you?' — now it's 'so tell us, how was that thing with…'"
That shift doesn't come from a feature list. It comes from a letter that asks a real question and gives everyone time to answer honestly.
If you want to see what it actually feels like before committing, read a sample issue and explore how it works at so-tell-us.com.
FAQs
Does everyone in the group need to pay?
No. One person pays €5 per month and invites up to four others. The rest of the group participates at no cost.
Is a credit card required to start the free trial?
No. The 14-day free trial starts without any payment details. You only add a card if you decide to continue.
What happens if I want to cancel?
You can cancel at any time in two clicks. No cancellation fees, no minimum commitment.
Can I have more than five people in a group?
The standard plan covers up to five people. For larger groups, contact the founder directly at richard@so-tell-us.com to arrange something custom.
Are there any hidden fees or in-app purchases?
No. The €5 monthly fee covers everything. No add-ons, no premium tier, no in-app purchases.
Where is my data stored, and is it private?
Servers are hosted in Germany with EU-only subprocessors. No ad tracking runs inside the app, and letter content is never used to train AI models.
What formats can people use to reply?
Plain text, a photo, or a voice note. Voice notes are automatically transcribed so they appear as readable text inside the compiled letter. One sentence is enough. Skipping a question is always fine.
At €5 a month for your whole group, So Tell Us is priced to be an easy yes. The trial costs nothing to start. If the letter feels right, you'll know within the first issue.