Before you write
Most answers are in the FAQ and guides below. For anything else, use Help, Contact inside the app once it is available on the App Store.
Support
Nobody at VaultBolt can open your vault, which is the point. Here is how to help yourself, and how to reach us.
Most answers are in the FAQ and guides below. For anything else, use Help, Contact inside the app once it is available on the App Store.
FAQ
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.
VaultBolt
Get VaultBolt for iPhone and iPad, or see exactly how it works in the interactive demo vault.
Feature 1 of 5 · Encrypted on your iPhone
Every photo, video and file is encrypted on your iPhone the moment it enters your vault, sealed with AES-256-GCM under a random 256-bit key of its own. Your pattern unlocks those keys, but it is stretched with Argon2id and bound to a secret inside your iPhone's Secure Enclave, so nobody can copy your files and guess it on a fast computer. With 2²⁵⁶ possible keys, guessing one would take longer than the age of the universe. Not Apple, not a thief, not even VaultBolt can open it.
Feature 2 of 5 · Each vault, its own pattern
Keep personal memories, work documents and travel papers in separate vaults. Each vault opens with its own pattern, PIN or passphrase, and has its own recovery phrase. There is no list of vaults: the pattern you draw decides which vault opens, so nobody can tell how many you have.
Feature 3 of 5 · Encrypted iCloud backup
Your vault uploads to your own private iCloud, but only after everything is encrypted on your iPhone, so Apple and VaultBolt only ever store ciphertext. Lost or switched phones? Enter your 12-word recovery phrase and everything comes back, on iPhone or iPad. Included on every plan, including Free.
Feature 4 of 5 · Finds them. 0 copies left.
VaultBolt scans your library on your iPhone and finds intimate photos, IDs, bank cards and screenshots of passwords, so you don't have to scroll through thousands. After they are encrypted, it deletes the originals, walks you through Recently Deleted and checks iCloud Photos, then confirms what matters: 0 copies left.
Feature 5 of 5 · Decoy and duress code
If someone forces you to open VaultBolt, draw your duress pattern. A harmless decoy vault opens exactly like a normal unlock, while your real vault's keys are quietly removed from the phone. Your encrypted iCloud backup stays, so you can restore everything later with your recovery phrase.
That is VaultBolt: encrypted on your iPhone, one pattern per vault, backed up as ciphertext, no copies left and safe under pressure.