Hide Photos & Videos: Vault3.0.1 - App Store

Keep the photos, videos, files, and passwords you'd rather keep private locked away in one app - Private Vault.

The "Hidden" album in Photos opens for anyone holding your phone. Real privacy needs a dedicated vault.

■ Full encryption

ChaCha20-Poly1305 (RFC 7539) protects every item. The master key lives only in RAM while the app is unlocked, and is zeroed the moment you lock. Without your passcode, nobody - including us - can read your data. Zero-knowledge by design.

■ Layered lock

Face ID, Touch ID, and a passcode. The vault locks itself when you leave the app - immediately, or after a delay you choose. Re-enrolling your biometrics invalidates the cached key.

Forgot your passcode? Your Vault Key gets you back in - a code only you hold, saved when you set up. We can't do it for you, and that is exactly the point.

■ Photos, videos, and files

- Bulk import from Photos, with optional auto-delete of the originals
- Shoot photos inside the app - never written to the camera roll
- Live Photos, HEIC, and 4K video supported
- Import any file from Files - PDFs, documents, archives
- Keep or strip GPS metadata, your choice
- Recently Deleted holds anything you remove for 30 days

■ Albums

- Built-in Favorites, Photos, Videos, and Files albums
- Your own albums and nested sub-albums
- Rename, pin to the top, set a custom cover, sort by newest or oldest
- Deleting an album never deletes your media

■ Passwords

- Logins, passwords, and secure notes, encrypted on-device
- Strong password generator and strength meter
- Optional Have I Been Pwned breach check, off until you switch it on. It uses k-anonymity: only the first 5 characters of your password's SHA-1 hash ever leave the device, and the matching happens on your phone. Never the password, never the full hash.

■ Private Vault Pro - one-time purchase

Everything above stays free. Pro adds:

- Decoy vault: set a second passcode in Settings. Entered at the same lock screen, it opens a separate vault with its own key and its own content - neither passcode opens the other vault
- Break-in photos: wrong-passcode attempts are logged with their time and shown after your next unlock. On supported devices, an optional front-camera photo is sealed with your vault key
- Arrange albums and items in your own order
- Alternate app icons: Silver and Rose Gold

■ Privacy

- Vault contents never reach our servers. Optional iCloud sync (off by default) stores only already-encrypted blobs in your own private iCloud
- No ads, no account required
- Firebase Crashlytics monitors stability - never vault contents, file bytes, passwords, or filenames
- Built on swift-crypto, maintained by Apple

Version History Bug fixes and performance improvements. 3.0.1 2d ago Private Vault Pro: a decoy vault behind a second passcode, break-in photos, custom ordering and new icons. Everything else stays free.
Bug fixes and performance improvements. 3.0.0 Oct 5 - Deleted photos and videos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
- New Vault Key: save it now so you can get back in if you ever forget your passcode. 2.2.0 Sep 5 - Videos play full-screen in landscape.
- Copied passwords clear from the clipboard on their own.
- Fixes for passcode entry on small iPhones, file names, and imports. 2.1.1 Sep 2 New in this update — Albums!

The Media tab is now organized into albums.

- Smart built-in albums (Favorites, Photos, Videos, Files) auto-sort everything you add.
- Create your own albums and sub-albums to organize private photos, videos, and files your way.
- Rename albums, pin favorites to the top, sort by newest or oldest, and set a custom cover for each.
- Move items — or whole albums — freely between albums. Deleting an album never deletes your media.

Thanks for using Private Vault! 2.1.0 Jul 29 Polish & improvements:

- Smoother PIN entry and a refreshed photo & video viewer
- Better iPad layouts and clearer Face ID / Touch ID setup
- Stability fixes

Thanks for using Private Vault! 2.0.1 Jun 15 Private Vault is here — a fresh release with security, privacy, and design fully reworked.

- Full ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption (master key lives only in RAM, zeroed on lock)
- Layered lock with Face ID, Touch ID, and PIN
- Photo/video import and in-app camera capture (never written to the camera roll)
- Password manager with generator, strength meter, and Have I Been Pwned check (k-anonymity)
- Refreshed design, iPad support, 14-language localization

If you have data from an earlier version, it is migrated automatically and safely on first launch. 2.0.0 Jun 10 - Supports screen unlocking using Face ID. 1.5.0 10/14/2019 - Support Auto login inside Safari.
Please enable "Password Auto Input" Extension in Safari Settings. 1.2.0 04/23/2018 - Support collecting Photos & Video from IG Story. 1.1.0 04/01/2018 1.0.0 03/25/2018