Your photos.
Yours alone.
A private photo vault with no ads, real end-to-end encryption, and a decoy password for when someone forces your phone open.
Forced to unlock? A decoy password shows a harmless album. Your real photos stay invisible.
"Private" photo apps have a dirty secret.
Ads everywhere
They interrupt you every single time you open them.
They lose your photos
Switch phones and your memories are simply gone.
Fake locks
A PIN screen isn't encryption. Your photos aren't really safe.
Veil fixes all three — and adds protection no one else does.
Built for people who mean it.
Real end-to-end encryption
AES-256 with a key only your password can derive. Get it wrong and your photos are mathematically unreadable — not just "hidden."
Decoy password
Pressured to unlock? Type a second password and show a harmless album. Your real photos stay invisible.
Intruder selfie
Someone tries the wrong password? Veil silently photographs them with the front camera. No shutter sound.
Never lose a photo
Originals are never auto-deleted. Built-in end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync brings everything to your new phone.
Auto-erase under duress
Optional: after too many wrong passwords in a row, your real vault is permanently erased. The last line of defense if your phone is taken.
Encrypted offline backup
Export an encrypted backup to Files — independent of iCloud — and restore it anytime with your password. Your data, never locked in.
Disguise the app
Make Veil look like a calculator, notes, weather, or clock on your home screen. Hidden in plain sight.
Available in 10 languages · No ads · No accounts · No tracking
We'd rather be honest than oversell.
Veil's decoy password protects you when you're pressured to unlock in the moment. It is not built to defeat professional forensic analysis — and we won't pretend it is. Your photos sync only through your own private iCloud, end-to-end encrypted with a key derived from your password — so not even Apple, and not us, can read them. We collect nothing.
Every feature, free. Pay once to go unlimited.
Free
- Up to 15 photos & videos
- Decoy password
- Intruder selfie
- Auto-erase & encrypted backup
- End-to-end iCloud sync
- Disguise · No ads
Veil Pro
- Unlimited photos & videos
- Everything in Free, no limit
- One-time purchase, no subscription
Questions
What makes Veil different from other photo vault apps?
No ads and no subscription, real AES-256 end-to-end encryption (not a fake PIN screen), and protection under pressure: a decoy password, an intruder selfie, and optional auto-erase. Plus encrypted iCloud sync and encrypted offline backup.
What if I forget my password?
Your photos are unrecoverable — by design. That's what makes them truly private. Write your password down somewhere safe.
Can you see my photos?
No. Everything is encrypted on your device with your key. We have no servers holding your photos and no accounts — not even Apple or we can read your data.
Can I back up my vault outside iCloud?
Yes. Veil can export an encrypted backup file to the Files app — an offline backup that doesn't depend on iCloud — and restore it later with your password.
What languages does Veil support?
10 languages: English, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.
Does the decoy password really hide my photos?
It opens a separate vault, so anyone who pressures you sees only the decoy album. One thing to know: Face ID always opens your real vault — so if you're forced to unlock, use your decoy password, not Face ID. It protects against in-the-moment coercion, not forensic analysis.
Is it a subscription?
No. Veil is a one-time purchase — buy it once and everything's included, even end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync. No subscriptions, ever.
Who makes Veil?
An independent developer — the maker of EasyLife, a long-running privacy-first toolkit.
Get Veil today.
A private photo vault that protects you under pressure — no ads, no subscription.