Estate planning as a Cricut account holder

A Cricut account (Cricut ID) holds a Design Space project library, purchased images and fonts, uploaded custom designs (SVGs, images), Cricut Access subscription content, legacy cartridge entitlements, cricut.com store credit, and machine registrations. For many crafters and small business owners, the Design Space library represents years of accumulated projects, purchased assets, and custom uploads. All Cricut cutting machines (Maker, Explore, Joy) require an active Cricut ID to operate through Design Space, though Cricut states that "Cricut Access is specific to the Cricut Account, and not the machine," so the hardware itself pairs with any account.

Under Cricut's terms, accounts are not property of the account holder and are forfeited when the account closes at death. No estate planning document—will, trust, or otherwise—can override this forfeiture.

What happens at death

Cricut has no published bereavement or estate process. A full scan of its 337-article help centre and of all twelve documents at cricut.com/en-us/legal turned up no form, article, clause, or contact for a deceased account holder. The Terms of Use (v3.0.0, effective September 16, 2025) state: "You may not transfer your Account or Account Information to any other person, and you may not use anyone else's Account or Account Information at any time." Purchased content does not escape that: "DIGITAL CONTENT made available through the PLATFORM (EVEN WHEN PURCHASED) is licensed, not sold, to you," under a "non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited right and license," and on termination "any license and any other rights granted you under these Terms of Use will end" while Cricut "may (but have no obligation to) delete your information, User Content, and Account data." The Usage Rules add that "you may use, access, or sync Digital Content only with the Software and only via your Account," and state expressly that "the Usage Rules also apply to all of Your Uploaded Content" — so an uploaded SVG is bound to the account the same way a purchased image is. A purchased library is therefore a license that ends, not property that passes to the estate. Money already paid is gone: "ALL PAYMENTS TO CRICUT ARE NON-REFUNDABLE, including without limitation, payments or fees for website/cricut shop purchases, digital content, subscriptions, or other services, regardless of usage or satisfaction." Account deletion "can not be undone" and, on Cricut's own list, deletes all projects, images, uploads, fonts, and digital purchases, forfeits any remaining cricut.com store credit, and immediately cancels the Cricut Access subscription, with no refunds. Cricut Access is "an auto-renewing subscription product," so an unattended account keeps billing the estate until someone stops it at whichever channel owns the charge.