Photo Vault · Android
Keep the photos you don't want on your camera roll.
Your photos and videos are encrypted on your phone before they're stored. The key comes from a PIN only you know. There is no account to sign up for, and no server that could ever hold a copy.
In final testing. Follow Keep Photo for the launch.
How it works
Three steps, none of them involving us
1 · Import
Pick photos and videos from your gallery. Each file is encrypted as it's written — the app never stores a readable copy on disk.
2 · Lock
Reopen the app and you're asked for your PIN. Wrong PIN means nothing decrypts. The app can't read your vault without you, and neither can we.
3 · Verify
Every export is checked against the original byte-for-byte, and the report tells you which files passed. If an export fails, you find out then — not two years later.
Why bother encrypting
Hiding changes what you see. Encryption changes what an attacker can read.
Hiding a folder from the gallery stops someone casually browsing your phone. It doesn't stop a stolen phone, a repair shop, or a backup. The difference shows up in the worst case, which is exactly when it matters.
- AES-256-GCM in chunked containers, so large videos can be played and seeked without decrypting everything to disk.
- Argon2id for the PIN — memory-hard, so guessing offline isn't cheap.
- Recovery code printed once at setup. That's the honest trade for not keeping a copy of your key.
- No account, no analytics on your files, no upload. The app works in airplane mode forever.
What it can't do
The honest list
- We can't recover your photos if you lose both the PIN and the recovery code. That's not a limitation we're hiding — it's the reason no one else can recover them either.
- It doesn't protect a phone that's already infected. A screen recorder or keylogger on your device defeats any app.
- It isn't a backup. Encrypted, on one phone, is not a backup. Export to storage you control, and keep doing it.
- It won't hide that the app exists. There's no secret second icon: we'd rather you trust the encryption than a trick.
Start here
If you're deciding how to hide photos today
We wrote a guide that compares every Android option — including the free ones that need no app — with what each one actually protects.