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Open AppVault on your iPhone in under three minutes.

AppVault ships worldwide on the Apple App Store. Free to download. The free tier holds one file in the vault. Premium removes the limit — Weekly from $3.99 or Yearly from $29.99 with a 7-day free trial. No separate signup, no email.

UPDATED · 2026-05-16 · REVIEWED BY APPVAULT

PRIMARY DOWNLOAD

Open AppVault on the App Store.

AppVault is distributed exclusively through the Apple App Store. There is no sideload build, no APK, and no web version. If you find a download link for AppVault outside the App Store, it is not us — please report it to [email protected].

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PLATFORM

iPhone · iPad

OS

iOS 17+

SIZE

~12 MB

LANGUAGES

33

FIRST FIVE MINUTES

Five steps from install to a sealed vault.

  1. 01

    Open the App Store on iPhone

    Tap the App Store icon on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or later.

  2. 02

    Search "AppVault"

    AppVault is published by Vastflow. Verify the publisher name in the App Store listing to be sure you have the right app — there are several similarly named photo vault apps.

  3. 03

    Tap Get and install

    Installation is around 12 megabytes. No account creation. No email. The app opens straight into the pattern setup screen.

  4. 04

    Draw a 5×5 pattern

    Pick a path through the 25 dots that you can re-draw in under two seconds but a stranger watching once cannot guess. The pattern derives your encryption key directly.

  5. 05

    Move your first files in

    Tap the import button, pick photos or documents, confirm the iOS delete prompt. The originals are securely overwritten before removal from your camera roll.

AT A GLANCE

How AppVault sits next to the other iPhone photo vault apps.

CAPABILITY APPVAULT KEEPSAFE VAULTAIRE PRIVATE PHOTO VAULT
On-device encryption AES-256-GCM AES-256 AES-256-GCM AES-256
Account required No Yes (email) No No
Cloud upload of vault Never — excluded from iCloud Backup Yes (sync) Opt-in —
Calculator launcher disguise ✓ (3 alternate icons) — — —
Decoy vault (separate album) ✓ — ✓ (different name) —
Intruder selfie ✓ ✓ — ✓
BIP-39 recovery phrase ✓ — ✓ —
No ads ✓ — ✓ —
Cheapest paid plan Weekly from $3.99 Subscription Subscription Lifetime $29.99

Comparison values reflect each app’s current App Store build and publisher documentation as of 2026-05-16. We rebuild this table every quarter or whenever a competitor ships a relevant change.

WHY PEOPLE PICK APPVAULT

Five answers we give when someone asks why AppVault, specifically.

  1. 01

    On-device, by design

    AppVault performs every encryption operation on your iPhone using Apple’s CryptoKit framework. The plaintext of your files never crosses a network. The cipher key never crosses a network. There is no AppVault server holding anything.

  2. 02

    No account, no email, no recovery

    Most photo vault apps ask for an email to enable "account recovery". That email is the leak surface in every photo vault breach since 2014. AppVault has no account system to leak from. The trade-off is that we cannot recover a forgotten pattern — we accept that trade-off, openly, on this site and inside the app.

  3. 03

    A calculator launcher that Apple actually allowed

    AppVault’s Calculator Launcher is a fully functional iOS calculator. It calculates. The vault entry is an opt-in long-press gesture documented in our App Store metadata, approved under Apple guideline 4.3. Other "calculator vault" apps have been rejected for misleading metadata — ours was not, because the calculator is not a trick.

  4. 04

    A decoy vault that is mathematically separate

    The Decoy Vault is not a folder pretending to be a different folder. It is a second encrypted catalog with its own key, derived from a second pattern. From inside either vault you cannot prove the other exists. From the outside, neither one is visible.

  5. 05

    Honest about what we are not

    AppVault does not defend against a coerced unlock, a jailbroken device, or a state-level adversary holding both your device and your hands. We say so on the Security page. A privacy product that overstates its threat model is the product you should not trust.

DOWNLOAD QUESTIONS

Eight quick answers before you install.

  1. 01 Is AppVault free to download?
    Yes. AppVault is free to download from the Apple App Store. The free tier allows one (1) file in the vault with the full encryption stack, the 5×5 pattern lock, Face ID quick re-unlock, and the BIP-39 12-word recovery phrase. AppVault Premium unlocks unlimited files, the Calculator Launcher disguise with three alternate icons, the Decoy Vault, the Intruder Selfie, and the File Shredder. Pricing is Weekly Premium from USD 3.99/week or Yearly Premium from USD 29.99/year with a 7-day free trial. Prices vary by App Store region.
  2. 02 What iPhone or iPad does AppVault require?
    AppVault runs on any iPhone or iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. Older devices are not supported because AppVault depends on Apple’s CryptoKit framework and the modern Secure Enclave APIs that arrived in iOS 17.
  3. 03 How big is AppVault?
    The install size is approximately 12 megabytes. The vault container grows with the files you add. The app itself contains no bundled assets beyond the UI; nothing is downloaded after install.
  4. 04 Does AppVault work on Mac?
    AppVault is built for iPhone and iPad. It does not run on macOS. We have no plans for a Mac or web version — those environments cannot match the Secure Enclave threat model AppVault is designed around.
  5. 05 Is there an Android version?
    Not yet. The current build is iOS and iPadOS only. An Android version is on the roadmap but is not the launch priority — the cryptographic foundations differ enough between platforms that we are shipping the iOS build to maturity before opening a second engineering track.
  6. 06 Can I download AppVault for free and upgrade later?
    Yes. Install AppVault for free, use the single-file free tier to verify the encryption and recovery flow, and tap the upgrade card inside the app whenever you want unlimited files plus the Premium features. The one free file transfers seamlessly into the Premium environment.
  7. 07 Will AppVault sync across my iPhone and iPad?
    Not automatically — and that is by design. The vault directory is explicitly excluded from iCloud Backup and the master keys are pinned to ThisDeviceOnly in the iOS Keychain. Each device starts with a fresh, empty vault. To set up the same vault on a second device, install AppVault, choose "I have a recovery phrase" on setup, and enter the BIP-39 12-word phrase you wrote down on the first device.
  8. 08 How do I trust an app that holds my private photos?
    Read the Security page on this site. Every cryptographic claim links to its primary source (NIST FIPS 197, RFC 5116, Apple Platform Security guide). AppVault operates no server that holds vault contents and has no account database. The Privacy page contains the complete list of third-party services in the binary: Firebase Analytics + Crashlytics for anonymous, content-free funnel and crash diagnostics, and RevenueCat for subscription receipt validation. None of those see vault content, filenames, your pattern, or your recovery phrase.

GET STARTED

Seal the vault.

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.

Open AppVault on iPhone