# What is Drime Family?

Drime Family lets a household share one plan's storage while each person keeps a private account. Learn the roles, the storage and the Family Room.

Updated: 2026-10-19  
Source: https://drime.cloud/support/family/what-is-drime-family

Drime Family lets one paying account, the manager, share their plan's storage with the people of their household. Each person keeps their own private account: nobody sees anyone else's files, the manager included, and each Vault stays sealed by its owner.

![The Overview page of the family console, with To do, Family storage and Recent activity](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5B42PJXKWN8X2DZHD1T065Z/c966153d5c34-web-family-overview.png)

## What a family shares

- Storage: members use their own space first, then the family storage, which is the manager's plan storage. The manager can set a limit per person. See [Family storage and asking for more space](https://drime.cloud/support/family/family-storage).
- Features: members also get the features of the manager's plan.
- A Family Room: a shared workspace, billed to the manager, for what belongs to everyone. See [The Family Room](https://drime.cloud/support/family/family-room).

## Who can create a family

You can create a family if your plan includes Drime Family:

- a Lifetime plan of 3 TB or more;
- Professional or Advanced, through the launch offer, for 30 days from October 19, 2026.

A dedicated Family plan will follow. Anyone else, on any plan, can join a family by invitation. See [Family billing and the launch offer](https://drime.cloud/support/family/family-billing).

## Roles

| Role | What they do |
| --- | --- |
| **Manager** | Runs the family. Their plan is the family storage. Only the manager keeps the plan and its billing, the Family Room and the trusted contact, names co-managers, and can hand the family over or dissolve it. |
| **Co-manager** | Runs the family with the manager: invitations, storage limits, products, parental controls and family activity. |
| **Member** | Uses the family storage and the products the manager allows. |

A child's account is a member with parental controls. See [Create an account for your child](https://drime.cloud/support/family/child-accounts).

## What the manager can see

The manager sees each member's e-mail address, the date they joined, their storage limit, what they draw from the family storage and whether two-factor authentication is on. Never their files.

Members see only the names of the other members, and only if the manager turns on **Members see each other**.

## Where to find Drime Family

At the top right, click your avatar, then **Settings**, and choose **Family**. This entry is there for every account.

![The Family section of Drime Settings](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5B42XDMG13D7MCQQNCM4HNJ/57e8722e5a6b-web-family-settings.png)

- If your plan includes Drime Family, **Set up my family** starts your family. See [Create a family](https://drime.cloud/support/family/create-a-family).
- Otherwise, you see **Your plan does not include Drime Family.** and **See plans with Drime Family**. You can still join a family when someone invites you. See [Join a family](https://drime.cloud/support/family/join-a-family).

Once you are in a family, your family page also opens from the storage meter of your Drive.

## If it doesn't work

- **You are already part of a family.**: you can be in one family at a time. To create your own family, first [leave the current one](https://drime.cloud/support/family/leave-a-family).
- **Your plan does not include Drime Family.**: your plan cannot create a family, but you can join one by invitation.