Questions and answers

An app for iPhone and Android that keeps photos, videos and notes encrypted on your phone. You open each vault by drawing its own path on a honeycomb.

No. No email, no phone number, nothing to sign up for.

VaultWell is coming soon to iPhone and Android. It isn't in the app stores yet.

Photos, videos, files and notes. Add them from Photos, Camera or Files, or write a note in the app.

33 languages. It follows your phone's language unless you pick one.

Instead of a PIN, you trace a route across a honeycomb of 37 cells. It needs at least eight cells, and the order matters. A meter shows how strong it is as you trace.

Your recovery phrase of six or more words brings everything back. We can't recover it for you, because we never have it.

Yes, from the vault's settings. Your recovery phrase keeps working.

Then nobody can open that vault, including us. That's the cost of having no back door.

As many as you need. Each opens with its own path, and nothing on screen shows how many exist.

A vault you can open if someone forces you to unlock. Opening it with its path permanently erases every other vault on the phone, with no warning on screen.

Not on the phone. Only encrypted backups you stored elsewhere can bring those vaults back.

Not from the screen. Someone with deep access to the app's files could count encrypted vault folders. The security page explains this.

Not today. Your vaults stay on your phone, and encrypted backups go wherever you choose to keep them.

Export an encrypted backup of each vault, save it somewhere off the phone, then restore it on the new phone by tracing the vault's path. iPhone to Android and back both work.

You send a read-only .vwshare copy with a limit on opens and an expiry date. The person also needs the share phrase, which you send separately.

Not once it's sent. Use a short expiry and a small number of opens when that matters.

No. Everything is encrypted on your phone with a key made from your path, and nothing is sent to us.

Not yet. An independent audit is planned before launch, and we'll publish the outcome.

VaultWell protects against screen capture and hides content in the app switcher. On iPhone the system still allows screenshots; VaultWell tells you when one is taken.

If you turn them on, VaultWell silently takes a front-camera photo after a set number of wrong paths. It appears in the next vault you open.

Pricing hasn't been announced yet.