The Best and Most Private Photo and Video App for iPhone and iPad.
Millions of people trust Private Photo Vault® to keep their photos hidden.
Top 100 Photography App in USA, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, Italy, Finland, UK, South Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, France, Ireland, Germany and many more countries.
Reviews for Photo Vault®:
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"Wow, I have been wanting a way to hide some of my photos for a while, this is a perfect solution."
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"Exactly what I'm looking for, can organize albums and even 'hide' others that I feel I need to."
PROTECT YOUR "SPECIAL" PHOTOS + VIDEOS
• Password Protected App Entry
• Pin Lock
• Pattern/Dot Lock
• Password Protected Photo Albums
(Keep people out of your private albums)
• Break-in Report: Photo + GPS
• Decoy Password
+ Face Down Lock
PHOTO MANAGEMENT
• Create Albums right in the App
• Import/Export from Photo App
• iTunes Syncing
• Wireless Photo Transfer
• Email Photos
• Text Message Photos
PHOTO VIEWING
• Image Gallery
• Slideshow
• Intuitive Interface just like Photo App
VIDEO SUPPORT
• Import/Export from Photo App
• Watch Videos
PRIVATE WEB BROWSER
• Browse the Internet Privately
• Download Photos directly to the app
CLOUD VAULT:
• Encrypted Cloud Backup
• Space Saver
• 100% Private - Yes. Private Photo Vault employees CAN NOT view any of your photos or videos.
When you enable Cloud Vault backup in the app, you are required to provide a Cloud Vault Password. Your Cloud Vault Password is never backed up to our servers and used as a secret value that only you know to encrypt/decrypt your files. This means we have NO ability to view your photos. This also means that if you forget your Cloud Vault Password, you will also not be able to view your Cloud Vault data. Please write it down.
PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION
Premium will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You may manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase.
Terms: https://privatephotovault.com/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://privatephotovault.com/privacy-policy/
NOTE:
The free version of the app does not backup your files to Cloud Vault. Please ensure you perform backups of your photos and videos to ensure if you lose your device, your data isn't lost.
App no longer functioning on iPhone 11 Pro iOS 13.5 – constant crashing upon opening
Paulyv1992
In the last update or the second to last update I am no longer able to open my application. I am on an iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 13.5. I’ve been a long time user and premium subscriber of your application, and I’ve never had issues with compatibility in the past. In most cases when apps are updated and require a newer version of iOS, the software developer will disable updates for devices that don’t need the specified iOS version. I was not given a warning, and I was dumbfounded went out of nowhere my app is unable to open.I’m not sure why this is happening, but if I am no longer able to use this application, I’m going to have to cancel my premium subscription. I’m sure there are other users of your application on lower iOS devices that are also running into this issue. My biggest problem is that I am unable to access my pictures now because I’m unable to open the application. If you could provide me instructions on how to retrieve my photos and videos that are currently locked inside of the application, I would really appreciate it. I’m hoping that this issue is resolved, but in the meantime I would hope you are able to help me retrieve my images and videos.
Developer Response
We apologize for this experience. We would like to speak with you to better understand the problem you encountered. Please contact us at https://privatephotovault.com/support so we can help resolve this issue. Thank you.
Great app but has a few issues. iCloud Storage
DespicableBeast
Everything about the app’s functionality and features are great! However, there are two big issues I have. 1.) I subscribed to the premium version to have to utilize the cloud storage. The description of the iCloud storage option is inaccurate. It states that you can can save space on your your device by synchronizing and uploading all the photos to the cloud so that when you preview the content on your device, it will download it from the cloud without using up the storage on your device. Which in sense, should be similar to IOS. However, when I preview the photos in the app. It downloads the photo to my device and does not remove it after previewing. Ultimately it does not save any space at all. If I wanted to remove the data from my device, I would have to wipe everything off by reinstalling the app. After doing that, I log in, and it will synchronize with the cloud until I open up the photo which then automatically downloads the photo to the device. 2.) I’m not sure if it was because of the update but when I reinstalled the app, I have a problem where I couldn’t connect to the server when I was logging back into my account. I had to remove my 1 year subscription and resubscribe to finally log back in. But doing so prompted a message saying that I would have to pay again after my 1 week free trial. My subscription didn’t expire until August 2022. Which means I did not use the whole year of the subscription.
Developer Response
Hi, sorry about any issue. Regarding (1), the Space Saver issue, we are working on an update soon that should come out soon that should allow for permanently reducing space by keeping locally compressed copies of the image on your phone and leaving the full resolution in Cloud Vault. Regarding (2), we had a couple hours of server maintenance a couple of days ago where login wasn't working. Your old subscription should still work and be active if you paid for it. If you have any other questions, please reach out to us at privatephotovault.com/support
Great product, cumbersome UX
Clark Battle
Ive been using this app (pro version) for many years now and its never lost a pic. The photo editor is amazing! Sometimes ill even import a photo just to edit it and then export it because the editor is so much more capable than the stock iOS photo editor. My only complaint is that it requires way too many button clicks to do most things. For example, to import a photo from you library it requires nine button clicks! The worst it the three dialogs that must be dismissed after every import. Two of them could easily be removed. The experienced user doesn’t need to read those warnings every single time. Editing a photo also requires way too many clicks. Taking a photo within the app is a great feature but each photo requires four clicks! It should be one. The new editor is great but it needs to be streamlined. The app is stable and well coded but it smells like the software developer was also the UX Designer. If thats the case it could really use a dedicated designer. Developers think from the perspective of the technology (for example the photo library they chose). Designers think from the perspective of the user. It's a huge difference and it shows. One missing feature is nested directories. Even two levels would be enough. Another missing feature is multiple (more than two) alternate vaults. There's no reason why there should be only two. It's as if they only thought of it as a plausible deniability mechanism rather than a feature in itself. You could have one gesture for nature pics, another for naughty pics, another for cars, etc. There is no reason for only two.
Developer Response
Hi, Thank you for your feedback! We are going to forward your suggestion to our developer team so they can have this into consideration for future app updates!
Would NOT recommend
latetalks
I have used this app for many years as a “pro” user and I guess that makes me qualified to finally review it. It used to work more or less well. Sure, there were quite a few extremely annoying glitxhes such as the propensity of the app to re-areange your photos according to nobody-knows-what criteria. Then the fact that if you had, say, two phones or a phone and an ipad, you woule end with two different versions of your library. And then, there was a super-cumbersome way of downloading anything on another device of yours. But it kind of worked. Until it didn’t. It all went downhill with the introduction of a subscription model, offering the “solution” (finally) to the multi-device sync problem. More specifically, cloud syncing. They went all cure saying how “nobody has your password etc”. But what happened is that the initial sync to cloud simply ERASED about a half of the library - something to do with improper domain naming i.e. a programming error. And that’s it. There is no way to get the images back even after downgrading. And as pointed out by many users, the customer service simply does not care and does not respond. All together, what is the point of an app that allows you to remove your sensitive images from your photo stream to a supposedly secure library - that then destroys them? And the fact that they don’t even care to answer tells you all you need to know. Stay away, and most definitely, don’t waste your hard earned 40 bucks on this hot mess of an app.
Developer Response
Hi, first of all, sorry about the experienced you've had. We try to respond to every customer support request. Please try reaching out again at privatephotovault.com/support
Thanks for using Private Photo Vault! We have been working hard to create a new update to make sure you always have the best app for locking your photos.
+ UI improvements & bugfixes
If you ever have any questions or feedback, please send us an email at support@privatephotovault.com
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Information
Seller
Legendary Software Labs LLC
Size
181.4 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.2 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.2 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.2 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.2 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
