Vailuna

ENCRYPTED ON YOUR DEVICE · ONLY YOU HOLD THE KEY

Your keys,
in your hands.

Lock your private photos, videos and files in a vault of your own. Everything is encrypted on your device and stored in your own iCloud or cloud drive — the cloud only ever holds scrambled data, and the only key is your password.

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No sign-up No servers of ours Nothing readable ever leaves your device

WHY IT MATTERS

Your private photos live on someone else's computer.

The moment a photo leaves your phone for the cloud, you are trusting a company to hold it in the clear — and to never look, never leak, never change the rules.

Vailuna changes the default: your files are encrypted on your device, and the cloud only ever holds scrambled data. No trust required.

What the cloud sees, and what you see

That scramble below is what your photo looks like in the cloud. Hold the card and watch it become a photo again — only for you, only while you hold.

Hold the card to decrypt · release to return to ciphertext

The journey of a photo

From your phone to the cloud to your Mac — follow one photo all the way, and see why no one along the way can look at it.

SEE IT IN ACTION

A vault that looks like home.

Your photos, laid out by the day they were taken — scroll, pinch, play, just like the album you already know. Everything on screen was decrypted a moment ago, only in memory, only for you.

  • Timeline by date
  • Instant 4K playback
  • Live Photos, intact

Feels like a photo library. Stores like a vault.

Photos were just the start. The vault holds any file — videos, PDFs, documents, keys, whole folders — and the formats it can open, it can edit too: your changes save straight back encrypted, and the plaintext is never written to disk.

Private import

Pick photos straight from your library — without giving the app access to it. What you select is all it ever sees.

Any file, not just media

Photos and video are only the start. Drop in PDFs, documents, keys or a whole folder — anything is encrypted the moment it lands in the vault.

Edit in the vault

Open and edit text, Markdown and notes right inside the app. Changes save straight back encrypted — the plaintext is never written to disk.

Live Photos

Hold to play, release to still — just like in your photo library. The motion comes along and is never lost.

Instant playback

Videos play right away and you can skip anywhere — no waiting for a whole file to download or unlock.

Multi-device sync

Keep the vault in your own iCloud, Dropbox or any cloud folder, open it on another device, and changes merge on their own — no conflicted copies.

Passwords too

Keep passwords and keys next to your files, with account and notes. Anything you copy clears from the clipboard after 20 seconds.

Every platform

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows — the same vault, the same experience, everywhere.

Get started in three steps

  1. 01

    Set a password

    Open the app and choose a password only you know — no sign-up, no email.

  2. 02

    Put things in

    Pick photos and videos, or drop in any file — it's encrypted the moment it goes in.

  3. 03

    Connect your own cloud

    Choose an iCloud, Dropbox or any cloud folder and your devices stay in sync. Prefer offline? That works too.

Questions you might have

What if I forget my password?
When you create your vault you get a recovery code, shown only once — write it down and keep it somewhere safe. It lets you reset your password.
What if my cloud account gets hacked?
Whoever gets in finds only scrambled data. Your files are encrypted before they leave your device, and without your password they cannot be opened.
Does encryption make things slow?
No. Photos open instantly and videos play as they decrypt — you can skip a 4K video to any point without waiting.
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for — no account, no email, no servers of ours. Open the app, set a password, done.
Technical details
Your master password derives a KEK via Argon2id. The KEK unwraps the Master Key; the Master Key unwraps one File Key per file. Changing your password rewraps only the outer layer — no file is ever re-encrypted.
  • seek O(1)Scrub a 4K video to any position — only the chunks you hit get decrypted.
  • self-containedEvery .pvf carries its own key envelope and encrypted filename. No central index is needed to recover everything.
  • forbid(unsafe)The crypto and vault cores forbid all unsafe Rust, verified by 120 core tests.

You don't have to trust us

There is no account to create and no server of ours to trust. Your password never leaves your device — and even if someone got hold of everything in your cloud, without it all they would have is noise.

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Coming soon

COMING SOON

Be first through the door.

Vailuna is in the final stretch before launch. Leave your email and we'll tell you the moment your vault is ready — no spam, no account, just one message.

We only use it to email you at launch. Nothing else.