Features
What Vaultora does — and what it deliberately does not.
Vaultora is a narrowly scoped tool: store content encrypted on the device, find it again, and hand it back out under your control when you need to. Anything that would soften that scope is absent on purpose.
Vaults and encryption
- Two separate vaults, each with its own secret. Which one opens is decided by the secret you enter, and by nothing else.
- Content is stored encrypted on the device. The key is derived from your secret and is not stored in the clear.
- No account, no registration, no recovery question. There is nobody who could open a vault for you.
- Unlock with Face ID or Touch ID if you like. The biometric data never leaves the device's Secure Enclave — Vaultora never sees it, only the system's answer.
Two vaults, one input field
Before you unlock, Vaultora shows no list: no vault name, no count, no hint that a second one exists. There is a single field for the secret. Which of the two you enter decides which vault opens.
That allows something a single vault cannot: anyone pressed into opening the app can give up one secret and show the vault behind it. The other does not merely stay locked — it is nowhere to be seen in the opened app.
What sits in the vault you would show is your decision, and you make it beforehand. That part the app cannot take off your hands. And against someone who already knows that Vaultora keeps two vaults, the split offers no protection: it hides which vault you have set up, not that the app knows of two.
Recording
- Photo, video and audio recording straight into the opened vault — the recording does not pass through the photo library, and nothing is written back to it.
- Camera and microphone are used only while you are recording, and only with the relevant system permission.
- Photo and audio recording can also be started from an Apple Watch, with a preview of the camera image on the watch.
Starting a recording from an Apple Watch
Vaultora comes with an Apple Watch app. From the watch you can start a photo or audio recording; for photos, the watch shows a preview of what the iPhone's camera is currently pointed at.
The watch is a remote control, not a second vault. It can only start a recording while a vault is open on the iPhone — it opens none and unlocks none. With no vault open, nothing happens on the watch.
The preview is shown on the watch but not kept there. The recording is made on the iPhone and written into the open vault there. Nothing is left behind on the watch.
Legal notice on recordings
In Germany, recording the spoken word of others in private without the consent of those involved is a criminal offence under § 201 of the Criminal Code (StGB) — regardless of which app is used and regardless of whether the recording is ever shown to anyone. Image and video recordings are additionally subject to personality rights, in particular the right to one's own image.
The responsibility for whether a recording is lawful rests with you. Vaultora shows this notice in the app as well: on first launch and before the first audio recording.
Vaultora is an encrypted vault, not a tool for recording third parties covertly. The encryption protects your own content from outside access. It does not make an unlawful recording lawful, and it does not shield you from the consequences.
Bringing things in and organising them
- Share extension: hand files to a vault directly from other apps.
- Photo library: Vaultora can read images and videos you select — and never writes back to it.
- Files: take documents in from the Files app.
- Organise, rename, view and play back within the vault.
Transfer on your own network
To move larger amounts to or from a computer, Vaultora can start a local server on request. That is a transfer — not to us and not to the internet, but it should be named:
- The server runs only while you have switched it on and the app is in the foreground. It does not start by itself and does not keep running in the background.
- It is reachable on the local network only and protected by a one-time password generated afresh on every start.
- The connection is encrypted (HTTPS). The certificate is self-signed and generated per session — so the browser will ask once.
- No port forwarding, no connection to the outside, no relay service in between.
Archive: backup and moving devices
Because Vaultora does not synchronise and is not part of the iCloud backup, the archive is the only way to back up data or move it to a new device.
- You create an encrypted archive manually and put it wherever you like — the Files app, a computer, an external drive.
- The archive is worthless without the matching secret. Anyone who finds it sees nothing.
- On the new device you restore it.
- Without an archive there is no second route. Not for you and not for us.
What Vaultora does not do
- No synchronisation between devices, not even as an option.
- No iCloud backup of the vault directory — explicitly excluded.
- No account, no sign-in, no email address held by us.
- No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports to us, no advertising.
- No connection to servers we operate — there are none.
- No recovery of a forgotten secret.
Free use and the one-time purchase
- Free to download and free to keep using, with up to 15 files per vault.
- A one-time in-app purchase removes the limit and unlocks further features.
- No subscription, no automatic renewal, no trial period.
- The App Store states the price. Details are in the Terms of Use.