Supported Features
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Dark Interface
Hide Private Photos & Videos
Lock files & passwords safely
Free
Lock private photos, videos, and passwords behind Face ID and on-device encryption. Zero-knowledge: your keys and plaintext never leave your device. No account needed.
Keep the photos, videos, files, and passwords you'd rather keep private locked away in one app — Private Vault.
Worried about handing your phone to family or friends and having them stumble onto something private? The built-in "Hidden" album in Photos can be opened by anyone. Real privacy needs a dedicated vault.
■ Highlights
【Full encryption】
ChaCha20-Poly1305 (military-grade, RFC 7539) protects every item. The master key lives only in RAM while the app is unlocked and is zeroed out the moment you lock. Without your password, nobody — including us — can read your data. Zero-knowledge by design.
【Layered lock】
Face ID, Touch ID, and a PIN code. The vault re-locks instantly when you send the app to the background. If you re-enroll your biometrics, the cached key is automatically invalidated.
【Photos, videos, and files】
- Bulk import from Photos library (with optional auto-delete of the original)
- Take photos directly inside the app (never written to the camera roll)
- Live Photos, HEIC, and 4K video are all supported
- Import any file type from the Files app — PDFs, documents, archives, and more — each stored encrypted on-device
- Choose whether to keep or strip EXIF / GPS metadata
- Originals and thumbnails are both encrypted at rest, on-device only
【Password manager】
- Store logins, passwords, and secure notes — all encrypted on-device
- Built-in strong password generator
- Password strength meter
- Have I Been Pwned breach check (see the transparency note below)
■ HIBP breach check transparency
The breach check uses k-anonymity. We never send your password or its full hash to any server. Only the first 5 hexadecimal characters of the SHA-1 hash leave your device, queried against api.pwnedpasswords.com; the candidate list returned by the server is matched on-device. No full hash, no plaintext password, and no other data is transmitted.
■ Privacy commitments
- Vault contents (photos, videos, files, passwords, master key material) are encrypted on-device and never sent to our servers — optional iCloud sync (off by default) stores only encrypted blobs in your own private iCloud
- No ads
- No account required (your vault data stays on your device by default)
- We use Firebase Crashlytics to monitor stability and improve features. This service never includes vault contents, file bytes, passwords, filenames, or anything you store
- Password breach check uses Have I Been Pwned with k-anonymity (only the first 5 hex chars of SHA-1 leave your device)
- Built on swift-crypto (Apple-maintained)
■ Who this is for
- People with photos they'd rather keep out of casual view
- Anyone managing passwords in Notes or messaging apps
- Anyone who needs a private, encrypted place for sensitive documents
- Parents who occasionally hand the phone to a child
- Anyone uneasy about putting sensitive data in the cloud
Ratings & Reviews
- This app has not received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
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!
The developer, Nam Doan Hoai, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Size
- 9.9 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 13 more
- English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- Provider
Nam Doan Hoai
- Nam Doan Hoai has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Copyright
- © 2026 NDLab