Comparison
A good photo locker. Built around an account.
Keepsafe helped define the photo-locker category, and it is still polished and popular. But it is built around an account and a cloud. If you now want a vault with no sign-up, no company servers, and no stored list or count of what you keep, that is a different design.
What is a good Keepsafe alternative for iPhone?
Look for what account-based lockers cannot offer by design: no sign-up at all, keys that never leave your device, no company cloud holding copies of your library, and deniable hidden vaults. Sealby is built that way: AES-256 on your device, no account, no stored vault list or count, and an optional duress PIN.
Where Keepsafe shines
- Long-established, polished, and widely used
- Cloud backup and multi-device access are built into its account model
- Familiar freemium setup — easy to start
Where it falls short
- Requires an account, so your identity is attached to the existence of your private library
- Copies live on the company’s servers. Whatever the encryption, it is known that they exist and whose they are, and they are outside your control
- Photo/video-centric: notes, documents and mixed files aren’t the focus
- Even with decoy features, an account-based locker visibly exists and is tied to you. That is a disguise, not deniability
The honest verdict
Keepsafe is a good photo locker built around an account and a cloud. If that model suits you, it has years of polish behind it. Sealby is for the next requirement up: no company holds copies, no account links the vault to you, and nothing records how much you keep, or that you keep anything at all.
Common questions
Why does “no account” matter for a photo vault?
An account ties your identity to the fact that you keep a locked library. It creates a login that can be phished or subpoenaed, and usually means copies on servers you do not control. No account means none of that exists. There is nothing to link, phish, or demand.
Can I move my photos from Keepsafe or another locker to Sealby?
Yes. Export them back to your photo library or files, then import them into a Sealby vault with the photo picker or the share sheet. Photos are encrypted on import, and you can delete the readable copies afterwards.
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