No account. Nothing to hand over.
VaultShield never asks for your email, a password or your name, and there's no VaultShield server holding your photos. Your vault lives on your iPhone and works offline.
How it works
Up and running without signing up
- 1
Open the app
No sign-up screen, no email, no password. You go straight to setting up your vault.
- 2
Draw your pattern
Your pattern is your way in. It stays on your iPhone and is never sent anywhere.
- 3
Save your recovery phrase
With no account, there's no email reset. Your 24-word recovery phrase is your way back in instead.
- 4
Use it anywhere, even offline
Add, view and organise photos with no connection at all, in Airplane Mode or anywhere else.
What you get
Less about you, anywhere
Nothing to sign up for
No email, phone number, name or password. There's no profile of you to fill in or keep up to date.
No VaultShield server
Your photos aren't uploaded to us, because there's nowhere to upload them to. We can't see them, and can't hand them over.
Nothing to leak
No account database means no password list or email list of ours that could leak in a breach.
Works offline
The vault never needs an internet connection. Only the private browser and the optional iCloud backup go online.
No analytics built in
The app doesn't include analytics, crash-reporting or advertising SDKs.
No one to talk past
There's no support desk that can reset your access, so nobody can talk their way into your vault.
Good to know
What it doesn’t do
We’d rather you know the limits now than find them later.
No email reset
If you forget your pattern, your recovery phrase is the only way back in. Lose both and nobody can open the vault, including us.
Some things do go online
The private browser uses the internet, and the optional encrypted backup goes to your own iCloud. The app may also check for an update when it opens. None of these send your vault's photos to us.
Your vault stays on one iPhone
With no account, nothing syncs between devices. To move to a new iPhone, turn on the encrypted iCloud backup and restore it with your recovery phrase.
FAQ
Common questions
No. There's no sign-up, email or password. You set a pattern and start adding photos.
Yes. The vault never needs a connection. Only the private browser, and the iCloud backup if you turn it on, go online.
No. There's no VaultShield server holding your photos, and they're encrypted on your iPhone before they're stored.
With your 24-word recovery phrase. There's no email reset, because there's no account to reset.
No. It uses your own iCloud, and the copy is encrypted before it leaves your iPhone. Restoring it needs your recovery phrase.