The app to change your address everywhere
Movepost turns changing an address account by account into one guided workflow. It opens each address page in turn, helps fill your new address once you’ve signed in, checks it off, and queues the next site. An optional free scan helps catch accounts you might miss. $19 once for the whole move. No realtor invite, no ads.
Is there an app that changes your address everywhere?
Not by itself, and any tool that claims otherwise is overselling. Banks, insurers, and the DMV all require you to be signed in to your own account, and their terms of service don’t allow a company to do it on your behalf. What an address-change app can do is keep the list, open each address page in order, fill in the new address the moment you’re in, and track the whole thing to done.
- What it is: a web dashboard plus a Chrome extension for your own computer.
- What it does: queues your accounts, helps fill your new address, tracks each to done, and opens the next site.
- Discovery: an optional free scan helps catch accounts you may not remember.
- What it never does: ask for a password or sell your move.
- Cost: the scan and your first three accounts are free; $19 one-time covers the rest of one move, with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
- Where it runs: Chrome on a desktop or laptop. Not a phone app.
Why USPS and the free moving apps leave you with a list
A USPS change of address is a forwarding order. It re-routes mail for roughly a year and then stops. Your bank, your credit cards, your insurer, and every subscription still hold the old address, and they keep issuing statements to it. The average household has 15–40 accounts tied to an address, spread across sites that each hide the address field somewhere different.
The moving apps that cost nothing solve a different problem than the one you have. They typically arrive through a realtor or a moving company, and they earn by connecting you to utility, insurance, and internet partners. That is a real service, but not a neutral one, and you can’t buy your way into it directly.
Address-change options, compared
| Movepost | USPS change of address | Realtor / mover apps | By hand | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it changes | The address on the accounts on your list — banks, cards, utilities, insurers, subscriptions, government | Nothing. It forwards mail to your new address for about 12 months | Varies by provider: some notify partner utilities, most hand you a link list | Everything, if you remember it |
| How you get in | Start yourself, right now, with no realtor or mover invite | Open to anyone at usps.com | Usually an invite from a realtor or moving company | — |
| Your passwords | Never read or stored — Chromium may fill them; otherwise you enter them yourself | Not applicable | Varies; some ask to act as your agent | Yours alone |
| What you end up with | A list gone green and a printable record of every account you changed | Forwarded mail that stops after a year | Offers, quotes, and a partial list | A sticky note and three accounts you forgot |
Nothing here replaces the USPS order. File that too. It catches the mail while you work through the accounts themselves.
How the app works
- Build your move. Add the accounts you need to change. An optional free scan can suggest banks, utilities, insurers, and subscriptions you might not remember; you see how many it found and a preview of the ones worth doing first.
- Change three accounts free. Movepost opens each site’s address page, one at a time. You sign in, it fills in your new address, you save, and the next site is already up. The first three are free, so you know what the workflow is before you pay for it.
- Unlock the rest for $19. The Move Pass lifts the cap on the list you already built: every account in your move, progress tracking, and pause/resume recovery until the whole thing is green.
The extension is published on the Chrome Web Store and has no login form of its own. Its only login-page inspection is a bounded local check for Chromium’s native saved-credential autofill on the exact complete top-level login URL Movepost opened. It can press that form once only while its serialized work-tab claim remains valid; otherwise you sign in manually. Credential values never leave the institution’s page and are never read or stored by Movepost.
What the app covers
Movepost keeps a curated registry of the accounts movers update most, each with the exact page where the address lives: national and regional banks, credit cards, brokerages and retirement accounts, loan servicers, auto/home/health insurers, utilities, phone and internet, pharmacies, streaming and subscription services, retailers, and government records including the IRS, the SSA, the VA, and the DMV in all 50 states plus DC. Anything niche you add by name in a second. There are 157 free address-change guides covering the same ground if you’d rather work the list yourself.
Whatever you call it (an address changing app, an address update app, a change-of-address service), the job is the same: get the new address onto every account you own, with a record that it happened.
What it can’t do
- It can’t handle credentials or authentication challenges. It can press one Chromium-autofilled form under the exact-URL and work-tab gates above; otherwise sign-in is manual, and every bank 2FA prompt stays yours.
- It can’t promise a wall-clock finish time. Most movers get through the common set in one short sitting, but a slow bank is a slow bank.
- It can’t handle a nonstandard form invisibly. When a site’s form is unusual, your address is one tap away on a copy card. Paste, hit “Done → next,” and the queue keeps its place.
- It can’t run on a phone. Chrome extensions are desktop-only. Plan a laptop session.
Ready to be done with it?
Build your list in about two minutes, then work the queue until it’s all green. Three accounts free, then $19 one-time with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Questions people ask before buying an address-change app
Is there an app to change your address everywhere?
There is no app that changes your address everywhere by itself — every bank, utility, and insurer requires your authenticated session, and none lets a third party bypass its security. Movepost opens each address page in order, helps fill your new address, marks it done, and moves to the next site. If Chromium’s native saved-credential autofill has filled the sign-in form on the exact complete top-level login URL Movepost opened, it can press that form once under strict local gates. Otherwise you sign in manually. An optional scan helps build a more complete account list.
Is Movepost an app, a website, or a browser extension?
Both halves. The dashboard where you build your list and watch your progress is a website — nothing to install. The part that fills in your new address is the Movepost Chrome extension, which runs in your own browser on your own computer so your logins never leave it.
Does an address-change app work on a phone?
Movepost is built for a desktop or laptop browser, because the autofill half is a Chrome extension and mobile Chrome does not run extensions. You can read the guides and the checklist on a phone, but plan the actual session for a computer — it is also where password managers and bank 2FA are least painful.
Is there a free app to change your address?
USPS runs the only official change-of-address service, and it forwards your mail for about a year without touching your accounts. The moving apps that cost nothing (Updater, MovingWaldo and similar) usually reach you through a realtor or moving company and make their money from partner referrals and advertising. Movepost charges $19 for the guided workflow, so nobody is paying for your move but you. Its first three accounts, optional account scan, address-change guides, and printable checklist are free.
How much does an app to change your address cost?
Your first three accounts are free and run the real guided workflow. After that Move Pass is $19 one-time and covers the rest of your move, however long it takes. There is no subscription, and it carries a 14-day money-back guarantee. The address-change guides and the printable checklist stay free.
Do I have to hand over my passwords?
No. Movepost has no login form and never reads or stores credential values. On the exact complete top-level login URL it opened, it performs a bounded local inspection for Chromium’s native saved-credential autofill and can press that form once only while its serialized work-tab claim remains valid. Otherwise you sign in manually with your browser or password manager. Movepost stores only your account list, old and new address, and progress.
Can an app change my address with the DMV or the IRS?
Government records have to come from you. Most states require a driver’s licence address change within 10 to 30 days, and the IRS wants Form 8822 or your next return. Movepost queues those the same as any other account and links the official page for your state, but you are the one who submits it. There is a free guide for all 50 states and DC.
Prefer to do it by hand?
The guides and checklist are free and need no account. Start with the printable who-to-notify checklist, then use the per-account address-change guides for the direct link to each company’s address page. Realtors and moving companies who want to hand this to clients can buy gift codes.
Still comparing? Related deep dives: what an address change service covers, how much of an address change can be automated, alternatives to the invite-only moving apps, and what the USPS change of address does and doesn’t do.