How to Share Netflix Account with Family Members

neo dong
5 min readDec 11, 2019

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Netflix is an online video streaming service provider and it has more than 150 million subscribers. As one of the 150 million, you might have some questions about the account. How to share my account with my family? How can we watch videos from Netflix at the same time? How to avoid conflicts for the choice of movies and TV shows to play? Hereby, we will introduce 3 solutions for you.

As a subscriber, you must be familiar with the table shows below.

Before you subscribe to Netflix, you will see this price table and it shows what kind of features you will get with your subscription.

The first solution for you is to go for a standard or premium plan. With this solution, you are able to have 2 or 4 screens to watch on Netflix at the same time. Meanwhile, you can watch videos on your laptop, TV, phone, and tablet. With this solution, you will still have the limitation of only up to 4 screens to play videos from Netflix at the same time.

The second solution for you is to download the videos within Netflix App for offline watching. This solution is applied to all subscribers, since watch Netflix videos within App offline does not count toward the limit of how many screens you can watch on Netflix at the same time. However, the Netflix App is only available on your laptop, TV, phone, and tablet, which means you cannot watch them on a large screen to enjoy those videos. Besides, the number of titles that can be downloaded from Netflix is limited and you need to watch them up within a certain time duration.

The third solution for you is to download Netflix videos by Netflix Video Downloader. With this 3-rd party tool, you can download videos from Netflix as many as you want and you can keep them forever. Meanwhile, with the downloaded videos that you can stream to a large screen to enjoy, rather than watch within a small screen.

With those three solutions, you can share your Netflix account with your family members and all of you can enjoy movies and TV shows on Netflix at the same time.

Tutorials: Share Netflix Account with Family Members

Solution 1: Go for Standard or Premium Plan

With your Standard or Premium plan, before you see the main interface of Netflix, you need to select one account to use. At this step, you will see 5 profiles within this site since there is an extra profile for ‘Kids’.

Solution 2: Download Netflix Videos within App

In this solution, you need to download Netflix App for your laptop (access to Windows Store), TV, phone, and tablet. Then, launch the App and login with your Netflix. The last step is to find the video and click download.

Solution 3: Netflix Video Downloader

Netflix Video Downloader featured with a clear, concise and powerful interface, easy for users accurately and fast downloads of various Netflix videos. Furthermore, the Netflix Video Downloader supports downloading videos in HD solution (up to 1080p) and keep all subtitles and audio tracks of the original movies and TV shows.

Please download Netflix Video Downloader and install on your laptop or PC before getting started.

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Step 1 Install and Launch Netflix Video Downloader

Click the ‘Download’ button (shown above) to download Netflix Video Downloader and install to your laptop or PC. Then, launch the program.

Step 2 Set Output Video Quality

Netflix Video Downloader supports getting video in HD quality, you can click the Setting button on the upper right corner to set the output quality as High, or choose Medium or Low according to the storage space of your devices. Plus, the setting of customizing the output path is also in this window.

Step 3 Search Preference Videos or Paste Netflix Video URL to Downloader

You can type any keywords or the URL of the movies or TV shows that you want to download, and then press the “Enter” button directly. The downloader will display all related videos.

Step 4 Download Movies or TV Shows

Find the movies or TV shows that you want to download and directly click the download icon of each title to start downloading.

Step 5 Check Downloaded History

After downloading, you can check the downloaded history in Library which will show all videos you downloaded recently.

Those three solutions are all handy for you and choose the most suitable solution(s) for you. Meanwhile, you could have a try to download Netflix videos with Netflix Video Downloader. This handy program could help you to get rid of Netflix’s limitations. Then, the downloaded videos are free to transfer between devices and share with others.

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