Private Photo Vault

Hide your private photos and videos behind a passcode and Face ID — and do not lose them.

Every file is encrypted on your iPhone before it goes anywhere, and the encrypted copy lives in YOUR iCloud, not on our servers. We do not have servers. Switch phones, reinstall the app, sign back in — your vault is still there.

On the home screen it sits as REDACT, and you can swap that for one of four plain icons. Nothing about it says what is inside.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Pick photos, videos or screenshots through the system picker. The app never gets access to the rest of your library. 2. Choose whether to delete the originals from Photos. iOS parks deleted originals in Recently Deleted for 30 days — empty that album and nothing is left behind. 3. Everything inside is encrypted with AES-256. The keys are made on your device.

BUILT FOR THE OVER-THE-SHOULDER LOOK

• Decoy passcode — a second code opens a harmless album, with nothing to suggest a first one exists.
• Albums with their own codes — handing someone one album never opens the rest.
• Break-in log — wrong codes are written down. Turn the camera on and the front camera takes a picture too, encrypted with your files.
• Shake to close — a flick of the wrist locks the vault.
• Four plain home-screen icons and a name that says nothing about what is inside.
• The grid prints in black and white, so a glance from across the room gives away less.
• Hidden from the app switcher, and you are told when a screenshot is taken.

PRIVACY, PLAINLY

No account. No email. No analytics. No advertising SDKs. We cannot read your files because we never receive them — they go from your iPhone to your own iCloud container, encrypted, and the key never leaves your Keychain.

FREE AND PREMIUM

Free covers 100 files with every feature, no ads and free export. Premium lifts the cap on files and on albums with their own codes: $2.99/month, $9.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $24.99 once for lifetime. Restoring a purchase always works.

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple ID settings. A free trial converts to a paid period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends.