Why families need more than a shared note
A text thread of passwords feels convenient until a phone is lost, a relationship changes, or a child reuses the same login at school. Helping a parent should not require handing over your own vault. Helping a partner should not mean one spreadsheet on the kitchen laptop.
Stax Pass treats privacy as personal even inside a family plan. Prices are per plan, not per person. Each member still gets their own account and login.
Share only what you choose
Some logins really are shared: streaming, utilities, the school portal, the home Wi-Fi. Put those in a shared vault and invite the people who need them. Everything else stays in each person’s own private vault.
Each person in a shared vault can have different permissions. A partner might add and edit logins, while a teenager can only use them. One login can sit in more than one shared vault—say, Parents and Kids—without making copies that drift out of date.
When someone leaves, removing them cuts off their access right away and changes the vault keys, so new changes are locked to the people who remain. No app can take back a password someone already saw, so change the website password too if that matters.
Plans
- Family — 1 to 4 members: $0.99 per month or $9.99 per year.
- Family Plus — 1 to 8 members: $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year.
- Every plan: 45-day free trial, no credit card required, cancel anytime. Passwords, private notes, and small files. Encrypt on device before sync.
Any renewal price and cancellation terms are shown before purchase.
What stays private
Saved records are designed to be encrypted on your device before they sync, using XChaCha20-Poly1305. Your password helps derive protection with Argon2id. Sign-in is designed around OPAQUE so the service is not meant to store a readable password. When something is protected for a specific recipient, Stax Pass uses HPKE with X25519 and HKDF-SHA-256 rather than forwarding a live password in a message.
Support cannot see a spare copy of a family member’s passwords. If someone loses both their password and recovery phrase, encrypted data cannot be decrypted. That limit is the same for a household as it is for one person. Read the security guide before you depend on it.
How to set a household up without mixing vaults
- Each person creates their own Stax Pass account during the trial.
- Each person stores their recovery phrase offline. The owner of the vault should know where it is—not only the helper.
- Create a shared vault for the logins the household actually shares. Keep personal email and banking in each person’s own vault.
- Start with the accounts that would stop the household: email, banking, phone carrier, and school or care portals.
If you are helping an older adult, set up only the accounts they choose, then let them own the password and recovery phrase. A password manager is a safety net, not a way to silently keep someone else’s keys.
What this is not
It is not a promise that scams disappear. A family member can still be talked into entering a password on the wrong page. Unique passwords and a manager slow that damage down; they do not replace a pause before an urgent message. Two-factor authentication still belongs on email and banking.