Sharing and family

Sharing items

Share a vault item with another Atrium user without our server ever holding a key that can open it.

Updated 2026-09-25

On every plan you can share individual vault items with other Atrium users. Items shared with you appear under Shared with me.

How sharing stays private

Every user has a key pair: a public key others can use, and a private key protected by their master password. When you share an item:

  1. Your device opens the item's key (you must be able to open the item to share it).
  2. Your device seals that key to the recipient's public key.
  3. Our server stores and passes on the sealed key, which it can't open.

The recipient's device opens it with their private key. At no point does our server hold a key that can decrypt the item.

Schedules still apply

If a shared item is time-locked, the schedule applies to everyone it's shared with.

Stopping a share

Unsharing removes the recipient's sealed key, so they can't open the item again. Anything they already saw may have been copied: stopping a share controls future access, not memory. For a password, change it after unsharing if that matters.