FileStasher: Photo Vault Safe

Hide photos, IDs, and private files. Premium adds a decoy vault, two-factor authentication, and end-to-end encrypted iCloud backup. In 5 languages.

Hide photos, IDs, and private files. With a decoy vault, two-factor authentication, and end-to-end encrypted iCloud backup. Pay once. No subscription.

FileStasher is a private file vault for iPhone that takes privacy seriously without being inconvenient. Drop in selfies, ID cards, passports, tax forms, contracts, screenshots, receipts. Files are encrypted on your device before they touch storage. Optional iCloud backup stays encrypted end-to-end, so even Apple can't read it. Not the person sharing your iCloud. Not someone who picks up your phone. Not us.

WHAT MAKES FILESTASHER DIFFERENT

▸ DECOY VAULT — TWO VAULTS, ONE APP [Premium] Plausible deniability, built in. A second passcode opens a completely separate decoy vault with different contents. The real vault stays invisible — no hint it exists. For travelers, journalists, abuse survivors, and anyone who might one day be told "just show me."

▸ BUILT-IN DOCUMENT SCANNER Snap a page with the camera and it lands in your vault as an encrypted PDF. Multi-page scans become a single document. Receipts, IDs, tax forms, contracts — no third-party scanner app, no plain-text uploads to a cloud you don't control. Included with the free base app.

▸ TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION [Premium] Add a second layer of security with any standard authenticator app — Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password, Apple Passwords. Ten emergency backup codes so you're never locked out. Rare in photo-vault apps. Standard in this one.

▸ END-TO-END ENCRYPTED iCLOUD BACKUP [Premium] Optionally back up to your own iCloud. Files are encrypted on your device with your passcode before any data leaves. Apple sees only ciphertext. Restore on any iPhone signed into your iCloud. Most vaults in this category either skip cloud entirely or sync unencrypted — FileStasher does neither.

▸ PAY ONCE. NEVER AGAIN. One-time Premium upgrade. No subscription. No "free trial then surprise charge." No ads. Ever.

▸ ZERO DATA COLLECTED No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. No telemetry. No account to create. Your files, your passcode, your device — that's the entire system.

WHAT YOU CAN STORE

• Photos and videos from your camera roll • IDs, passports, driver's licenses • Tax forms, contracts, medical documents • PDFs — read multi-page documents inside the vault • Scanned documents — capture pages with the camera and save them as encrypted multi-page PDFs • Anything you can share into an app from Files, Safari, Mail, Photos, Notes, and more

Import via the share sheet from any app, the built-in document picker, your photo library, or scan directly into the vault with the camera.

HOW YOU UNLOCK

Choose what fits how you live: — PIN only — Face ID / Touch ID only — Face ID / Touch ID + PIN together

Repeated failed attempts trigger an exponential lockout.

INSIDE THE VAULT

• Color-coded folders, nested as deep as you want • Built-in PDF viewer — open and read multi-page documents without exporting • Multi-select for batch export, move, or delete • Move whole folders (and their contents) in one action • Secure deletion — files are overwritten before removal, not just unlinked • Auto-lock after a configurable inactivity timeout, plus instant lock when your device locks • Full VoiceOver, dynamic type, and accessibility labels throughout

FOR THE CURIOUS

• AES-256-GCM encryption via Apple's CryptoKit — the same standard banks and governments use • Encryption key derived from your passcode with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 at industry-recommended iteration counts • No master key. No backdoor. No "forgot your passcode" reset link. Forgetting your passcode means losing your files — that's the point.

LANGUAGES

English, Russian, German, Spanish, and French. Every screen, prompt, and permission dialog is translated. iOS picks the right language automatically from your phone's settings.

REQUIREMENTS

• iPhone running iOS 18 or later • An iCloud account only if you choose to turn on encrypted backup