Planning ahead for your Cricut accounts
Cricut, Inc. accounts cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
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Cricut, Inc.'s terms state that accounts are forfeited when the account holder dies. Lifetime planning is the only path to extracting value from the account before that happens.
How to protect your Cricut accounts
8 lifetime planning steps for your Cricut accounts:
Family sharing
Cricut accounts are non-transferable per the Terms of Use. There is no family plan, household tier, multi-user access, or shared library feature — Cricut Access is sold per Cricut ID only. Each person needs their own account, and all content (projects, purchases, uploads, store credit) is tied to a single account email. The physical machines (Maker, Explore, Joy) are the exception: they are not locked to the original purchaser and can be set up with any Cricut ID, so a family member can pair an inherited machine with their own account. The design library does not travel with the machine. A new Cricut ID starts with an empty Design Space and none of the deceased's purchased images, uploaded SVGs, or saved projects.
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
Frequently asked questions
Assume the account cannot be inherited, because it cannot. Keep master copies of your uploaded SVGs and your saved project files on your own computer and in a second location your family can reach — there is no bulk export from Design Space, and everything stored only there depends on Cricut granting a discretionary favor. Write down which content you bought outright versus what came with Cricut Access, note where Access is billed (cricut.com, the Apple App Store, or Google Play), and spend down any store credit rather than leaving a balance that is forfeited on deletion. Include a digital-assets (RUFADAA) authorization in your will or trust so your executor has standing to make the request. Do not plan on leaving your password behind: Cricut's Terms prohibit anyone else using your account, so credentials are not a plan.
No. Cricut Access is sold per Cricut ID as Standard ($9.99/month or $95.88/year) or Premium ($14.99/month or $119.88/year), alongside a free tier that comes with a Cricut account. There is no family plan, no household tier, and no multi-user access on a single account, and content cannot be pooled or shared across accounts. Each crafter in a household needs their own Cricut ID — which is also why a library cannot simply be handed to a spouse or child later.
An inventory listing the Cricut account lets a fiduciary identify it and act on it through the operator's official channels.
Cricut does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.
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Data sourced from Cricut, Inc. primary sources (11 pages reviewed). How we research.
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