**Decoy Vault — a second pattern, a separate album — App-Vault**

> A Decoy Vault is a second 5×5 pattern that opens a separate, plausible photo vault inside App-Vault. Useful for shared family iPads, lent phones, and any situation where one device serves more than one person.

Source: https://appvau.lt/decoy-vault/

FILE 05 / DECOY VAULT

# One app. Two patterns. Two completely separate vaults.

The Decoy Vault is a second 5×5 pattern that unlocks an entirely separate encrypted album inside App-Vault. Each pattern has its own files. Each pattern has its own catalog. Neither can see the other.

PRIMARY VAULT

PATTERN α · 12 FILES

IMG_0901

IMG_0902

IMG_0903

IMG_0904

DECOY VAULT

PATTERN β · 5 FILES

IMG_0701

IMG_0702

IMG_0703

On the surface, App-Vault behaves identically whether you enter pattern α or pattern β. The album loads. The thumbnails appear. The settings work. From inside either vault you cannot prove the other exists — and from outside, neither one is visible at all.

This is useful in the genuine privacy situations we ship for. A shared family iPad has both your photos and your child’s drawings; each gets a separate pattern. A spouse occasionally borrows your phone to look something up; the decoy holds the album you are happy to share. A device that travels through customs has a decoy with travel snapshots and a primary with sensitive documents.

We do not market the Decoy Vault as a way to deceive a partner about a relationship or to evade legitimate authority. The use cases on this page are the use cases we describe in our App Store metadata.

RELATED DOSSIERS

## Keep reading.

6 ENTRIES

- [LINK / 01 · CORE Calculator Launcher The home-screen disguise that pairs with two-pattern decoy.](https://appvau.lt/calculator-vault/)
- [LINK / 02 · KEY Pattern Lock How two patterns produce two mathematically separate keys.](https://appvau.lt/pattern-lock/)
- [LINK / 03 · CORE Photo & File Vault The primary vault behind the primary pattern.](https://appvau.lt/photo-vault/)
- [LINK / 04 · TRUST Zero-knowledge architecture Why neither vault can be detected from the other.](https://appvau.lt/zero-knowledge/)
- [LINK / 05 · TRUST Threat model When two vaults help and when they do not.](https://appvau.lt/security/)
- [LINK / 06 · COMPARE App-Vault vs Vaultaire Decoy versus "Plausible Deniability" — same idea, different names.](https://appvau.lt/compare/app-vault-vs-vaultaire/)

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Free to download. The free tier holds one file. Premium removes the limit — Weekly from $3.99 or Yearly from $29.99 with a 7-day free trial.

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