Ghost Vault: Photo Vault

Ghost Vault is a private photo vault that keeps your personal photos and videos encrypted, hidden, and completely offline. The moment you import a file it is encrypted with AES-256-GCM, before it ever touches storage. No readable copy is left behind on your phone.

Most vault apps ask for internet access to "sync" your files. Ghost Vault has NO internet permission at all. This is not a promise not to upload — the app is technically incapable of network access. Nothing syncs, nothing phones home, and there is no account to create.

WHAT YOU GET

🛡️ Real AES-256-GCM encryption — built on Google Tink, with PBKDF2 key derivation at 310,000 iterations and an SQLCipher-encrypted database. Your PIN is the only key.

📵 Zero internet permission — no ads, no trackers, no analytics, no sign-up. Check the permission list yourself: your media physically cannot leave the device.

🖼️ Photos and videos — import from your gallery, or capture a new photo or video straight into the vault so it never lands in your camera roll.

▶️ Encrypted video playback — videos are decrypted in memory as they play. No temporary unencrypted file is ever written to disk.

🎭 18 app icon disguises — make Ghost Vault look like a Camera, Clock, Notes, or Files app on your home screen. Hidden in plain sight.

👆 Biometric unlock — open your vault with a fingerprint, with your PIN as the fallback.

🔒 Instant lock and screenshot blocking — the vault locks the moment you leave the app, and screenshots and the Recent Apps preview are blocked throughout.

⏱️ Escalating lockout — repeated wrong PINs trigger longer and longer lockouts, and the timer cannot be bypassed by winding your device clock forward.

🗂️ Folders, search and sort — organize into custom folders and sort by date, name, size, or type.

🗑️ 30-day recycle bin — deleted items stay recoverable for 30 days, then are permanently erased.

📝 Secure notes — keep passwords, codes, and private text encrypted inside the same vault.

⭐ Favorites, slideshow, and storage stats round out the gallery.

PERFECT FOR

• Keeping personal photos private when you hand your phone to a friend or your kids
• Hiding ID scans, passport photos, and financial documents on a shared device
• Travelers who want sensitive media locked down while crossing a border
• Anyone who wants a photo vault that works with no signal, on a plane, or off-grid
• People who do not want their private life sitting in a cloud photo backup

WHY GHOST VAULT

No account, no ads, no tracking SDK, no analytics. It runs entirely offline on Android 8.0 and up and speaks 13 languages. The encryption is not homemade — it is Google Tink doing AES-256-GCM, with your PIN stretched through 310,000 rounds of PBKDF2 so a stolen phone cannot be brute-forced quickly.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU IMPORT

Ghost Vault is a one-way safe by design. There is no cloud backup and no export feature. If you lose your phone, uninstall the app, or forget your PIN, your vault cannot be recovered — not by you, and not by us. That is the honest trade-off for being the only person holding the key. Keep a separate copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.

Also worth knowing: when the app removes an original from your gallery after import, Android deletes the gallery entry, but on some devices the underlying data may still be recoverable with forensic tools. Your vault copy is always encrypted; deleting the original is handled by Android.

Want more? Ghost Vault Pro is a separate app that adds a Decoy Vault with its own PIN, a Self-Destruct PIN, Intruder Selfie with an intruder log, a working Calculator disguise, and panic gestures.

Take back control of your camera roll. Download Ghost Vault, the offline photo vault that keeps your private photos and videos encrypted and invisible.