Introducing Heads Up™: The Free Tool That Tells Everyone You're Moving
USPS forwards your mail. It doesn't tell your aunt, your dentist, or your college roommate where you live now. Heads Up™ does — in 5 minutes, free.
When someone moves, they tell about six people.
Their parents. Maybe a sibling. A best friend or two. Their accountant, if they remember. Then they file a USPS change of address, mentally check the box marked "told everyone," and get on with unpacking.
Six months later they're standing at the mailbox holding a forwarding-sticker-covered birthday card from their college roommate, realizing for the first time that their college roommate has no idea where they actually live.
This is the part of moving nobody plans for. Not the boxes. Not the utilities. The people.
We built Heads Up™ to fix it.
What Heads Up™ Is
Heads Up™ is a free tool inside AddressGenie® that lets you import your contacts from Gmail or Outlook, pick the people who actually need your new address, and send each of them a personalized moving announcement e-card — all in about five minutes.
It's the second free tool in our ecosystem, joining Don't Forget™, our 128-task interactive moving checklist. Together with our paid address-change service — which handles USPS forwarding and notifies 6,000+ companies across 23 categories — they form a complete moving platform that covers the three audiences every move has to deal with: the people in your life, the tasks on your list, and the companies that still have your old address.
Heads Up™ handles the first one. And until now, nothing really did.
The Gap Nobody Talks About
There is no government service for telling your friends and family that you moved. There never has been. USPS will forward your mail for up to twelve months, and that's it. After forwarding expires, anything sent to your old address simply doesn't reach you — and the sender has no idea.
Most people fall back on one of two workarounds, and both are broken:
Group texts. Impersonal, easy to ignore, and they don't include a properly formatted address that's easy to save to a contact card. Half the recipients glance at it and forget. The other half meant to update your contact info and never got around to it.
Individual emails. This actually works. The problem is it takes hours, and most people give up around contact #15. The 50 to 200 people who genuinely need your new address never all get told.
The result is the same every time: holiday cards go to the old house, medical reminders bounce, important documents get lost in transit, and friendships quietly fade because someone assumed you'd moved on when really you'd just moved.
How Heads Up™ Works
Five minutes. Four steps. No spreadsheets, no CSV files, no copy-pasting addresses one by one.
Step 1 — Import. Connect your Google or Microsoft account with one click. Your contacts load in seconds. You can also add contacts manually if you prefer.
Step 2 — Select. Check the box next to the people who need to know. Family, friends, doctors, your accountant, your kid's school, your book club — you decide who's in and who isn't. Filter by name, select all, or hand-pick one at a time.
Step 3 — Design. Pick from five professionally designed e-card themes — Classic Elegance, New Nest, Fresh Start, Cozy Home, or Modern Minimal — and personalize it with your new address, a personal message, and even a photo of your new home if you'd like.
Step 4 — Send & Track. Hit send. Each recipient gets an individually addressed e-card that looks like you wrote it just for them. Your dashboard then shows you, in real time, who opened it, who hasn't yet, and whether delivery succeeded. No other method of announcing a move gives you that visibility.
Why We Built It This Way
Three design choices we made deliberately, because they matter:
Each e-card is sent individually, not as a mass email. Recipients see only their own name in the "to" field. No CC list, no BCC blast. It feels like a personal note, not a marketing campaign — because it is a personal note.
Your contacts aren't permanently stored. We import them temporarily so you can pick who to notify. They're not held as a marketing list, and they're not sold to anyone, ever. AddressGenie is fully CCPA-compliant, and our Trust Center and Privacy Policy lay out exactly what we do and don't do with your data.
It's free. Forever. No catch. No contact limits. No "first 10 announcements free, then $0.50 each." No premium tier. No trial period that quietly converts to a subscription. Heads Up™ is free for every AddressGenie user, with no upsell pressure attached. We have a paid product — our address change service — but Heads Up™ isn't a feature gate to push you toward it. It's a free tool that exists because the problem deserves a free tool.
Where Heads Up™ Fits in the AddressGenie Ecosystem
If you've been around AddressGenie for a while, you already know Don't Forget™, our free interactive moving checklist with 128 tasks organized across the eight weeks before and after move-in day. Don't Forget™ tracks the what — every task you need to do, in the right order, at the right time.
Heads Up™ tracks the who — every person in your life who needs your new address, and whether they actually got it.
And our paid address-change service tracks the where — filing your USPS forwarding and updating 6,000+ companies across 23 categories (banks, insurers, utilities, subscriptions, government agencies, loyalty programs, healthcare, and more) so you don't have to log into each one individually.
Three tools. One platform. One account.
Heads Up™ — The people in your life — Free
Don't Forget™ — The tasks on your list — Free
AddressGenie® address change — The companies with your old address — $39.95 one-time
Most movers will use all three. Some will only use the free tools. Either way, the goal is the same: a move where nothing important falls through the cracks.
Who Heads Up™ Is For
People who've already moved and realized they didn't tell everyone. Heads Up™ works just as well after the fact. If you moved six months ago and your holiday cards are still going to the old house, this is the cleanup tool.
People moving soon who want to do it right. Send announcements a week or two before the move so contacts have your new address by move-in day.
People with a lot of contacts and not a lot of time. If your address book has 100+ people in it and the thought of emailing each one individually makes you want to lie down, this is for you.
People who want it to look nice. A formatted e-card with a real design feels more like a real announcement than a forwarded text. The five themes range from formal and traditional to modern and minimalist, so there's a fit for any style.
People who hate the idea of someone they care about losing track of them. This, honestly, is most of the reason we built it.
Try It Right Now
Heads Up™ is live. It's free. There's nothing to download, no credit card required, and no trial period that quietly starts billing you in 30 days.
If you're moving — or you've already moved and have a creeping suspicion that not everyone got the memo — this is the five minutes that fixes it.
And if you also need a checklist that tracks every task across your entire move, Don't Forget™ is right there waiting for you. Same account. Same dashboard. Both free.
Welcome to the side of moving that's actually about people.
— The AddressGenie Team