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Your photos deserve more than a hidden album.
Vauren locks them.

Everything you move into Vauren is encrypted on your iPhone and opens only with your pattern. No sign-up, no email, no servers holding your stuff.

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Draw your pattern to unlock

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✕ NO ACCOUNTS ✕ NO TRACKING ✕ NO BACKDOORS ✓ YOUR KEYS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE
Everything private, in one place

Built like a safe.
Feels like your Photos app.

Seven spaces for the things you'd rather keep to yourself, all behind one pattern and all encrypted before they touch storage.

Pattern unlock

Draw a shape on a 5×5 grid: quicker than a passcode with far more possible combinations. Your pattern, combined with a secret held in your iPhone's Keychain, unlocks a random 256-bit key. Wrong guesses are slowed down automatically.

Photos & videos

Import from your library or shoot straight into the vault, so nothing lands in your camera roll. Albums, favourites and a full-screen viewer.

Files & notes

PDFs and documents with a sealed-off preview, plus rich-text notes with folders, pins and attachments.

Voice Transcripts: Pro

Encrypted voice memos with on-device transcription you can search. Audio never goes to a server.

Passwords Pro

Logins with a generator, weak and reused-password alerts, and copy that clears itself.

Journal Pro

Daily entries with moods, tags, photos and voice notes, plus a calendar and streaks.

Duress vault

A pattern you can give up under pressure. It opens a harmless vault and silently erases the others.

Many vaults, no list

Each pattern opens its own vault. Vauren never shows a list, so nobody sees how many you have.

iCloud Sync Pro

Keep a vault the same on all your iPhones through your own iCloud. Files are encrypted before they leave, names are scrambled, and changes from different phones are merged item by item, so a rename here and a favourite there both stick. It doubles as a backup only your recovery phrase can open.

How it works

Three steps. Then it just works.

No setup wizard, no account form. Open the app and you're protecting files a minute later.

01

Draw your pattern

Connect at least five dots. Vauren stretches it with scrypt and mixes in a device secret to unlock your vault's key.

02

Write down 12 words

Your recovery phrase is a second, independent key. It's shown once and stored nowhere, not even by us.

03

Fill it & forget it

Everything you add is encrypted as it arrives. Leave the app and it locks; the keys are wiped from memory.

Security model

We don't ask you to trust us.
We made it so you don't have to.

  • XChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption for every photo, file, note, thumbnail and index.
  • A random 256-bit key per vault, never stored unencrypted.
  • scrypt + Keychain secret: copied files can't be attacked on another computer.
  • Recovery phrase as a separate key. Lose both pattern and phrase and nobody can open it, including us.
  • Honest limits: iOS can't fully block screenshots, and we say so inside the app.
const vault = {
  cipher: "XChaCha20-Poly1305",
  key: "random 256-bit, per vault",
  unlock: ["scrypt(pattern)", "keychain secret"],
  recovery: "12-word phrase",
  account: null,
  analytics: null,
};

// No server ever receives your keys.
// Only your pattern or phrase decrypts.
Duress protection

Someone makes you unlock it. What then?

A locked folder tells people there's something to find, and a fake calculator icon fools nobody who's actually looking.

Vauren gives you a pattern you can hand over. It opens a believable vault with ordinary things in it, and in that same moment every other vault on the phone is permanently erased, with nothing on screen to give it away.

What they see is all there is.

Pricing

Free to keep things private.
Pro to keep everything.

Encryption, pattern lock, recovery and duress protection are free, always. Your data is never locked away if Pro ends.

Free

$0
No account, no time limit
  • Up to 3 vaults
  • 100 photos & 10 videos per vault
  • Files, notes & voice memos
  • Duress protection
  • Export everything, any time

Vauren Pro Best value

$22.99 / year
Also $6.99/month, $1.99/week, or $49.99 once. Family plans for up to 6.
  • Unlimited vaults, photos, videos & files
  • Password manager & private journal
  • On-device transcription
  • Search the whole vault at once
  • End-to-end encrypted iCloud Sync
FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

Do I need an account?

No. There's nothing to sign up for. Vauren has no account system and no servers that hold your data.

What if I forget my pattern?

Tap "Forgot pattern?" and enter your 12-word recovery phrase, then pick a new pattern. Your data stays exactly as it was.

Can Apple or Vauren see my files?

No. Files are encrypted on your iPhone before they're saved. With iCloud Sync on, only already-encrypted files with scrambled names go to your own iCloud. Neither Apple nor we have the keys.

How does sync between iPhones work?

Turn on iCloud Sync, then on the other iPhone choose "Restore with a recovery phrase". Each iPhone uploads only its own changes and merges the others' item by item.

What happens if I stop paying for Pro?

Nothing is deleted or locked. You keep full access to everything you stored; the free limits simply apply again to adding new things.

Do you collect analytics?

No. Vauren contains no analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking software.

Can I get my data out?

Yes. Export a vault to a ZIP of normal files (originals, notes as web pages, recordings with transcripts) on every plan, free included.

Your vault is ready when you are.

Download Vauren for iPhone. Private by design, yours alone.

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