Planning ahead for your Cricut accounts

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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:

Keep the master copies of your designs outside Design Space. Uploaded SVGs and images live on Cricut's cloud, there is no bulk export, and the account cannot be handed to anyone. Cricut says it directly in its Terms: "You are solely responsible for retaining copies of User Content." Storing the source files on your own computer and in a second location your family can reach is the only planning step that reliably survives you.

Export your saved projects while you can. Open each project in Design Space and save the assets locally, so the designs do not depend on continued access to a Cricut account nobody else can hold.

Inventory what is owned versus subscribed, and write it down. Cricut publishes the route: in Design Space, "My Stuff" then Images then the Purchased filter shows what the account owns outright, and fonts you own show no price in the font menu. Individually purchased ready-to-make projects, single images, fonts, image sets, and legacy linked cartridges are "yours to use in Design Space forever" while the account exists; Cricut Access content is only available during an active subscription. Your heirs cannot tell these apart from the outside, and only one of the two categories is worth asking Cricut about.

Include a digital-assets (RUFADAA) authorization in your will or trust naming your executor or trustee and authorizing them to direct custodians like Cricut regarding your accounts. It does not override Cricut's non-transfer clause, but it is what gives a fiduciary standing to make the request at all. Do not plan to hand over your password instead — sharing credentials is not authority, and Cricut's Terms prohibit anyone else using your account.

Record where Cricut Access is billed — cricut.com, the Apple App Store, or Google Play — alongside the Cricut ID. Cricut publishes how to check: myaccount.cricut.com, then Subscription, shows "status, your current plan, and the next billing date," and notes that a mobile-purchased plan's status and billing cycle live in the App Store or Play Store instead. A subscription bought in the mobile app cannot be cancelled by Cricut, and an executor who does not know that will chase the charge in the wrong place while it keeps renewing.

Spend down any cricut.com store credit rather than carrying a balance. Credit is non-refundable and is forfeited if the account is ever deleted, so a balance left behind is simply lost.

Note that your machine is not the problem. Cricut states that "Cricut Access is specific to the Cricut Account, and not the machine," so whoever inherits the hardware can use it on their own Cricut ID. Tell your family that, so nobody assumes the machine died with the account.

If you run a small business on Cricut under the Angel Policy, keep project files, customer files, and inventory templates in your own business records, not only in Design Space. A successor or heir cannot inherit the account, so anything the business depends on has to exist outside it.

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 as a Free, Standard, or Premium plan (Cricut is also testing Basic, Pro, and Plus plans for selected U.S. users). Each person needs their own account, and all content (projects, purchases, uploads, store credit) is tied to a single account email. The physical machines are the exception: Cricut states "Cricut Access is specific to the Cricut Account, and not the machine," and its account-deletion article tells a user who deletes an account to "either sign in using an alternative Cricut ID or create a new one" to keep using the machine — so a family member can pair an inherited Maker, Explore, or Joy 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 — Cricut's own Terms say "You are solely responsible for retaining copies of User Content," 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 (My Stuff, then Images, then the Purchased filter shows what the account owns), 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; Cricut is separately testing Basic, Pro, and Plus plans with selected U.S. users. 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.

SimplyTrust Editorial·Updated September 16, 2026

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