Hide private photos, videos & files.
Sealed — readable by no one but you.

Photos, videos, documents and notes — locked behind a PIN and encrypted on your device. No account. No servers. What syncs to iCloud is an unreadable blob only you can open.

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iPhone & iPad · iOS 17+ · Free

AES-256-GCM
Secure Enclave
Deniable vaults

Made to hide what matters.

No jargon. Sealby does three simple jobs, properly.

Hide photos & videos

Keep private photos and videos in an encrypted vault only you can open — imported from your library, or captured straight in.

Encrypt important files

Passports, contracts, recovery codes, medical records — locked with serious encryption, readable only by you.

Full privacy on iPhone & iPad

No account, no cloud you didn’t choose, and nothing anyone can find — or even prove exists.

Hand over your phone. Reveal nothing.

Sealby keeps multiple independent vaults behind different PINs. Open a harmless one under pressure — the others stay invisible. Because vaults are indistinguishable from random data, no one can prove another exists.

Duress PIN: set a passcode that silently destroys your hidden vaults the moment it’s entered — so a forced unlock erases what matters instead of revealing it.

How hidden vaults work

2·9·4·1·0·6 Everyday vault
8·3·5·2·9·1 Hidden vault
6·0·7·3·4·8 Work vault
4·9·1·6·2·7 Decoy vault (Duress mode) — deletes all other vaults when opened
7·1·3·9·5·2 Looks identical to nothing
Vault count: undetectable

A full vault, not just a hidden album.

Notes & rich text
Photos & video
Documents & any file
Folders, tags & search
Multiple vaults
Encrypted iCloud backup & sync
Per-vault recovery phrase
Encrypted export
Lock on background
Destroy all data

“Why not just the Hidden album, or a locked note?”

Hidden album: opens with the same passcode as the phone — anyone you share it with is in, and everyone can see the album exists.
Locked notes: note titles and the notes list stay visible; only the body locks — and it’s still tied to your device passcode.
Sealby: photos, files and notes encrypted with AES-256, in vaults nobody can even prove exist.

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Keep anything that shouldn’t be seen.

Photos and videos, passwords and 2FA codes, IDs, financial and medical records, crypto seed phrases — any file at all. If it’s private, it belongs in a vault.

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Strong by architecture, not by promise.

Sealby’s privacy doesn’t depend on trusting a company. It comes from how the app is built — local-first, account-free, and encrypted with keys that live only on your devices.

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No account and no sign-up — ever
No servers that hold your keys or data
No backdoor and no master key
Encrypted end to end, with optional encrypted iCloud backup
Per-vault recovery phrase that only you hold
No trackers — on the app or this site

Free to protect. Premium to sync.

Free

Everything you need to lock things down on one device.

Unlimited deniable vaults
All file types, notes & rich text
Up to 100 files per vault
Folders, tags & search · single device

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Premium

Everything, everywhere

Add encrypted backup and sync across your devices.

Encrypted iCloud backup
Multi-device iCloud sync
Vault sharing
Lifetime or monthly / yearly

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Free vs Premium, side by side

FeatureFreePremium

Unlimited deniable vaults

All file types, notes & rich text

Files per vault100 maxUnlimited

Folders, tags & local search

Per-vault recovery phrase

Encrypted iCloud backup—

Multi-device iCloud sync—

Vault sharing—

How much is Premium?

A one-off lifetime purchase or a monthly / yearly plan — current prices are shown in the App Store.

Is the free tier limited in time?

No. Free is free for good: unlimited deniable vaults and every file type on your iPhone or iPad.

Do I need an account to pay?

No account with us. Purchases run through your Apple ID, verified on-device.

Built to keep secrets,
not accounts.

Your privacy comes from how Sealby is built — local-first, account-free, and encrypted with keys that never leave your iPhone.

Readable by no one but you

No account, no servers, no master key. Not a third party, not even us — there is no key for anyone to hand over.

Encrypted on your device

Every file and note is sealed with AES-256-GCM before it is ever written or synced.

Unreadable in the cloud

What syncs to iCloud for backup is an opaque blob. Nothing can open it without your key.

Deniable by design

A different PIN opens a different vault. The number of vaults is forensically undetectable.

Deeper than a photo locker

First-class notes and rich text alongside any file — with folders, tags and instant search.

Hardware-backed keys

Keys live in the Secure Enclave, unlocked by your PIN, pattern or passphrase.

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Your vault is waiting.

Download Sealby and lock down what matters — in under a minute, with no account to create.

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