Questions, answered.

VaultBolt is a private photo, video and file vault for iPhone and iPad. It finds private photos on your device, encrypts them with AES-256-GCM as they enter the vault, and helps you delete every leftover copy. There is no account and no ads.

Yes. The free plan includes up to 3 vaults, 100 photos and 10 videos, the private photo scan, zero-copies clean-up, encrypted iCloud backup and a recovery phrase. Pro unlocks unlimited items, decoy and duress vaults, intruder photos and iPad sync.

No. Files are encrypted on your iPhone with keys derived from your unlock and the Secure Enclave. There is no VaultBolt account and no copy of your keys on any server, so we cannot open your vault.

The Hidden album moves photos out of the main grid but keeps them in Photos, where anyone who knows your passcode can open them. VaultBolt stores items in a separate encrypted vault with its own unlock, decoy options and a clean-up that leaves no copies in Photos.

Use your 12-word recovery phrase to set a new unlock. Keep the phrase somewhere safe and away from your phone: without it, nobody, including VaultBolt, can recover the vault.

On Pro, a decoy code opens a vault of harmless photos. A duress code also removes your real vault's keys from the phone, silently, while your encrypted backup stays for later.

Yes, on every plan. Your vault is encrypted on the device and backed up to your own private iCloud. Restore on a new iPhone with your recovery phrase.

Yes. VaultBolt is built for iPhone and iPad, and Pro keeps the same vault in sync across both through your iCloud, encrypted end to end.

VaultBolt is for iPhone and iPad on the App Store. You can also try the interactive demo vault in your browser first.

Pro Yearly and Family Yearly come with a 7-day free trial. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with no trial.

Nothing is deleted. Items above the free limit stay readable and exportable; you just cannot add more until you are back under the limit or renew. Decoy and duress keep working, so a lapse never weakens your safety.

No. VaultBolt has no weekly plan. Choose monthly, yearly or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Family uses Apple Family Sharing for up to six people. Everyone gets Pro, and each person's vault stays private to them.

Yes. Prices shown are planned US prices; the App Store sets local prices in each country.

No. Nobody at VaultBolt can open or reset a vault. Use your 12-word recovery phrase on the unlock screen to set a new unlock.

Make sure encrypted iCloud backup has finished on the old phone, install VaultBolt on the new one, choose Restore and enter your recovery phrase.

Open Settings, Subscription, Restore purchases. Purchases are tied to your Apple Account.

Settings, Export all writes your files back to Files or Photos, with location stripped by default.

Use Help, Contact in the app and choose Security. A public security contact and disclosure policy will be published with the App Store release. Never send personal photos or your recovery phrase.

No. The scan runs entirely on your iPhone. Turn on airplane mode before scanning if you want to see that for yourself.

Intimate photos, photos of IDs and passports, bank cards, and screenshots that look like passwords or private messages. You review every result.

Yes. Every plan can run the scan. Free moves up to 100 photos and 10 videos in total; Pro moves everything.

iOS keeps deleted photos and videos in Recently Deleted for up to 30 days so you can undo mistakes. Until that album is emptied, the photo still exists on the phone.

If iCloud Photos is on, yes: deleting from one device deletes it on all devices signed in to that Apple Account, after it leaves Recently Deleted.

Some offer to delete originals after import; many only copy. VaultBolt's clean-up also covers Recently Deleted and iCloud Photos and ends with a confirmation.

AES-256-GCM authenticated encryption for file content, thumbnails and the vault index, with Argon2id key derivation and a Secure Enclave-bound secret.

No. Files are encrypted on your device with keys that never leave it. There is no VaultBolt account and no copy of your keys on any server.

AES-256 is the standard used by governments and banks and has no practical attack. In practice, the strength of your unlock and the safety of your device matter more.

Yes, optionally. You always set a pattern, PIN or passphrase first, and Face ID or Touch ID can unlock on top of it.

A long pattern with several turns can be harder to shoulder-surf than a 4-digit PIN, but a passphrase is the strongest option against guessing.

Up to 3 on the free plan and unlimited on Pro or Family.

The app never shows it. A forensic examination of total storage can hint that more data exists; VaultBolt states that limit openly.

A duress password or code is a second secret you can give under pressure. It appears to unlock normally but triggers a protective action, such as removing access to your real data.

A decoy code simply opens a harmless vault. A duress code opens the decoy and also removes your main vault's keys from the phone.

Yes, if encrypted iCloud backup was on. Restore it with your recovery phrase once you are safe.

Yes, on Pro. After wrong attempts it takes a silent front-camera photo and logs the time inside your encrypted vault.

No. The private camera encrypts in memory and writes only to your vault.

Yes. Document mode scans multi-page documents into an encrypted PDF on every plan.