Hide private photos, videos & files.
Strong encryption for your private data. No account. No servers.
Sealed. Readable by no one but you.
Scan with your iPhone camera to installiPhone & iPad · iOS 17+ · Free · No adsSee how it works
Not just a vault for private photos and videos.
Sealby also does the rest of the job:
Secure camera
Take photos straight into the vault. They never touch your camera roll and carry no camera metadata.
Secure documents
Scan passports, IDs and contracts straight into the encrypted vault. Any other file type too, each encrypted with its own key.
Notes & passwords
Rich-text notes for passwords, backup codes and journals, next to your files.
Folders, tags & search
Folders inside folders, tags that cut across them, instant search.
Encrypted backup, sync & sharing
iCloud holds only scrambled blocks. Share a vault with others, or sync it with your iPad. Premium.
Local-only vaults
Keep your vaults entirely on your phone so nothing leaves your device, with encrypted iCloud sync available only when you choose to enable it for each vault separately in Settings.
Cold vaults
Remove a vault’s PIN, pattern or passphrase on this device while its encrypted content stays in place. Its 12-word recovery phrase restores access here; other devices are unchanged.
Duress PIN
Opens a decoy vault and removes your other vaults from this phone. Restore backed-up vaults later with their own recovery phrases, if backup completed beforehand. Premium.
Encrypted on your iPhone. Scrambled everywhere else.
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Encrypted on your iPhone
Every photo, video, file and note is encrypted locally on your device. Take a photo straight into the vault with the secure camera and it never touches your camera roll.
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Synced scrambled
When backup or sync is activated, iCloud and your other devices only ever receive scrambled blocks of encrypted data. Nothing readable leaves your phone. Nothing can be counted.
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Only you decrypt
Your PIN, Pattern or recovery phrase turns them back into your photos, on your devices only. You don’t need an account, any servers, or any master key.
Strong encryption.
Read the full security overview- No account
- No servers of ours
- No master key
- No trackers
- AES-256-GCM encryption
- Keys in the Secure Enclave
- A 12-word recovery phrase per vault
Back up first. Clear this phone. Restore later.
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Your vaults, on your iPhone
Set each vault’s sync or backup settings.
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Encrypted iCloud backup
Scrambled on your phone first. iCloud holds only what no one can read.
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A duress PIN clears the phone
Set a harmless decoy vault. When opened, it removes your other vaults from the phone.
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Restore what you backed up
If encrypted backup completed beforehand, restore each backed-up vault with its own 12-word recovery phrase. The words cannot bring back data that was never backed up.
Hidden is not locked. Locked is not hidden.
Be careful of other vault apps. Not all of them encrypt your data!
- Opens with your passcodeHidden album & locked notes
- Your phone passcode or Face ID opens them. Anyone who has it is in.
- The album and the note titles stay in plain sight.
- Photos only, or notes only. Never files.
- Often not encryptedPhoto-vault & calculator apps
- Many just move files into a hidden folder. A backup or a file browser shows everything.
- The calculator disguise is a trick everyone knows.
- Ads, accounts and trackers come with the app.
- Encrypted, but visiblePassword managers & encrypted drives
- Strong encryption, but the app and its contents are plainly there for anyone to see.
- One master password opens everything.
- An account that can be phished, reset or subpoenaed.
- Face ID intentionally doesn’t work in Sealby
- Sealby encrypts everything with AES-256
- No list or count of vaults, anywhere
- No account, no ads, no trackers
Free forever.
Sealby is free, always. Buy Premium features if you need them.
Free offers unlimited vaults, every file type, notes, folders, tags, and a 12-word recovery phrase for every vault. Up to 20 items per vault, including up to 5 videos.
Premium adds unlimited files, encrypted iCloud backup, sync, vault sharing and the duress PIN. Lifetime, or monthly / yearly.
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Setting up your secret photo vault takes under a minute. There is no account to create.
Scan with your iPhone camera to installYour first vault, in a minute.
- 0Take the Quick TourEvery screen, in two minutes.
- 1How vaults workVaults, unlocking and your secret. Start here.
- 2Adding photos, files and notesPhotos, Files, Camera, Paste, or the share sheet from any app.
- 3Your recovery phraseThe 12 words, and what happens if you lose your PIN or phone.
- 4Multiple vaultsA second PIN, a second vault. No switcher, on purpose.
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