MoatKey · Streaming logins

How to share a Netflix password safely at home

Everyone in the house wants to watch, and the login lives in one person's head. Here is a tidier way to share a streaming password with your own household without texting it around.

First, check the service's rules

Netflix, Disney+, Max and the rest each set their own rules about who can share an account, how many households can use it and how many screens can play at once. Those rules change. Before you share anything, read the current terms of each service. MoatKey doesn't change what a service allows, and this page isn't a way around them. It is about sharing within your own household, where the account is meant for the people who live with you.

Why not just text the password?

A password sent in a message stays in that chat for years, and on whatever device or backup holds it. Then someone changes it, and everyone asks again. A shared place is easier to keep tidy.

Put streaming logins in a shared Castle

1. Create a shared Castle, for example "Home streaming". The Free plan lets you share one Castle with one other person.
2. Add each service as a login. Use Generate to make a strong, unique password.
3. Invite the people in your household by email and pick a role.
4. Confirm each person on the Members screen after comparing safety numbers on a call or in person.

When the password changes, you change it once, and everyone who has access sees the new one.

Choose the right role

A Viewer can use and copy a login but can't change it, which suits younger family members. An Editor can change it. A Castle Admin can also invite and remove people. Details: Roles, admins and the activity log.

If the service asks for a code

Many services send a verification code or support two-step sign-in. If yours uses an authenticator app, MoatKey can make the code and show it to everyone in the shared Castle, so a login doesn't wait on one phone. See sharing 2FA codes.

When someone moves out

Remove them from the Castle's Members. They lose access right away, and MoatKey changes the Castle's key and lists passwords to change. Change the streaming password too, since they may have kept what they saw.

What MoatKey won't do

It won't get around a service's limits on devices or locations, and it isn't meant to share one account with people outside your household. If you want other people to watch, check whether the service offers an extra member or a separate plan.

The honest limits

MoatKey is designed so we can't read your vault. There has been an internal security review and no independent audit yet. Forget your master password and lose your Emergency Kit, and we can't get your data back.

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Honest status: MoatKey has had an internal security review and no independent audit yet. If you forget your master password and lose your Emergency Kit, we can't get your data back. See the Security page.

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Help pages for the details:

• Castles and sharing
• Roles, admins and the activity log
• Authenticator codes
• Password generator
• Safety numbers