Keepsafe Photo Vault vs Valv

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.

Valv is a free Android gallery vault for storing photos, GIFs, videos, and text files in encrypted form on a device. Files can be arranged into folders, with notes or text attached, and separate vaults can use different passwords. Access supports a password or PIN; one vault can also be unlocked with fingerprint or face authentication. Valv uses ChaCha20 encryption and derives keys with PBKDF2 and HMAC-SHA512. PBKDF2 uses 50,000 iterations by default, and that count can be changed. Encrypted files remain on local storage, supporting backups and transfers between devices, but cloud backup is not available. The project README says the app requires no permissions, while Google Play declares no data collected and no data shared with third parties. Valv requires Android 9.0 or newer and is listed at free. It is distributed through Google Play, F-Droid, and a GitHub APK, under GPL-3.0-only.