Keepsafe Photo Vault vs Privately

Keepsafe Photo Vault gives iPhone, Android and tablet users a protected place for photos, videos and documents. Access can use a PIN, fingerprint or Face ID, and users can arrange content in custom albums. The app can sync encrypted vault items to a private cloud for recovery or use on another device. Keepsafe says photos and videos are protected with 256-bit AES encryption at rest, backups are encrypted, and employees cannot view user content. The free Basic plan is ad-supported and backs up up to 200 items. Premium supports up to 10,000 cloud items on monthly or yearly plans, or up to 100,000 on Lifetime. Premium adds separately password-locked albums, a Decoy Vault, Intruder Alerts and Space Saver, which compresses photos on the device and stores originals in the cloud. Safe Send lets users share pictures from the vault for a limited time. New accounts are offered a 30-day Premium trial that Keepsafe says does not automatically charge when it ends. Premium costs $9.99 a month or $23.99 a year; both subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled.

Privately is an iPhone vault for photos and videos, with media encrypted on the device. It splits files into 1 MB blocks protected by AES-256-GCM, while the user’s PIN wraps a master key stored in the iPhone Secure Enclave. Albums can have separate passwords, and their locked photos disappear from the timeline, search, and favorites; Face ID unlocking is optional. On-device Smart Search can find text in photos in 18 languages without sending the photos off the iPhone. Users can export a.privately backup and restore it on a new device with their PIN; the maker says backups can be kept in iCloud Drive or elsewhere. The maker says it has no accounts or servers holding photos, file names, or thumbnails. The Free plan costs nothing, with no sign-up required. Pro Yearly costs $39.99 a year and includes locked albums and encrypted backups. The yearly subscription has a 7-day free trial; the weekly subscription has no free trial. The app is only for iPhone and requires iOS 18.0 or later. The maker says forgotten PIN access or losing a device without a backup can mean permanent content loss.