Emergency Access lets people you trust request your ZZPass vault after a waiting period you set. Nothing becomes readable unless you fail to respond, so your secrets stay yours, until they need to be theirs.
Four minutes to set up. Then you never think about it again, nothing happens until someone asks, and you always get the final word.
Emergency Access is included with ZZPass Premium$2.99/mo or $29.99/yr, which also covers Family Sharing, unlimited shared groups, and the full-vault Emergency Kit. See plans →
Every account you own, email, banking, taxes, photos, the lease, the will. A great password manager protects all of it, and that's exactly the problem when you need someone else to get in.
You decide who, and how long they wait. ZZPass holds the line for you, even when you can't.
Name the people you'd trust with everything, then set the waiting period that applies to them, 24 hours, or up to 30 days. Your contacts use ZZPass too, so a request never travels outside the app.
From their own ZZPass app, your contact taps "Request Access." You get a push notification and an email. The clock starts, and you have your full wait period to say no.
Only after your wait period elapses, and only for the contact who requested it. They get the level of access you granted them, read-only, or read and write. You can revoke at any moment, before or after.
Emergency Access only triggers if you fail to respond. Until then, you set who, what they can do, and how long, and you can change any of it from any of your devices.
If a trusted contact requests access and you don't respond, they'll receive the access you granted them after this period.
Emergency Access doesn't weaken your encryption. It inherits it. Arming it escrows one sealed key, never your content, and nobody in between can read a thing.
When you arm Emergency Access, the only thing escrowed is an access key already sealed to your contact, never your vault, never your content. We can't unwrap it, so a copy is useless to us.
The waiting period is enforced on your devices, on theirs, and at the escrow. All three have to agree before that sealed key is released, and a clock changed on any one device won’t move it.
Push and email, independently of each other. If either channel reaches you, the request stops with a single tap.
Grant read-only so a contact can look but not touch, or read and write if they may need to act on your behalf. Either way, it's your call, set before anything ever happens.
Granted access never becomes permanent. Revoke a contact and their access ends, they stop receiving your vault, and nothing new ever reaches them.
Requests, denials, unlocks, and revocations are timestamped, so the history of who asked and what happened is always there to check.
The alternatives ask you to hand over the secret itself. Emergency Access delivers the access without ever giving up the secret, and pairs naturally with a printed Emergency Kit as your offline backstop.
A printed Emergency Kit is still worth having: it covers the case where you are locked out. Emergency Access covers the case where someone else needs in.
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Somebody set this up on a quiet Tuesday and forgot about it. A year later their sister opened a laptop, asked, waited a week, and found every account exactly where it should be. That's the whole feature, four minutes now, so that day is quieter.
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