If you’re using your phone or computer to store private photos and videos, it’s important to be vigilant about who else can see them. Luckily, there are some great apps that can help you keep your personal pictures under wraps.
One of our favorites is [app name]. When you allow the app to scan your phone’s Photo Library, it will create a separate, hidden album with all of the images it finds in your camera roll. It will then delete the originals from your Camera Roll (but leave them accessible in the app). The app uses facial recognition technology to help sort photos by people, so it’s easy for you to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Another one we love is [app name]. This app lets you encrypt photos before sending or sharing them with others. It also allows you to set a self-destruct timer on sent media, so that the recipient cannot save it or share it without your knowledge. Encrypted photo albums can be created within the app itself and can be organized into folders by topic.
Best Apps For Private Photos
Hide Pictures on Your iPhone
Any picture you take or import from your PC or Mac immediately gets stored in your phone library. And anyone can see them there—which can become really embarrassing. Fortunately, there are some cool apps that hide pictures on your iPhone.
Pictures can be hidden by password-protecting them, hiding them behind a calculator, or locking them. Most of these applications create a special hidden folder, to which you can transfer your personal pictures.
Here’s a rundown of some of the top applications to protect pictures on your phone.
- Secret Photo Safe: HiddenVault
If you are looking for that perfect “secret safe” to lock your photos and videos on your iPhone, then you must download HiddenVault. Developed by Kyle Allen, HiddenVault lets you safely store unlimited photos and videos.
With an excellent military-grade encryption system, this app offers three ways to secure your photos and videos. You can enter a pin or use the phone’s Face ID and Touch ID to lock your photos. The app also offers a private cloud backup.
The one great feature about HiddenVault that makes it stand out from the crowd is the complete control of private data. All of your photos and videos will be stored safely in the built-in Apple folders of your phone. The developer won’t have any access to them. Having everything stored in your apple folders also eliminates the risk from hackers.
HiddenVault should be your first choice if you want a completely safe app to lock your personal photos and videos. It’s one of the best privacy-focused apps for iPhone.
Check out the beginner-level tutorial if you have just started using HiddenVault:
HiddenVault lets you store unlimited photos and videos
- Private Photo Vault
Private Photo Vault is one of the best free applications to protect your personal photos and videos by password/pattern-locking. This feature-rich app allows easy album organization by allowing you to transfer images and videos from your iPhone’s photo app to your new protected album.
All you need to do is select photos you want to hide and password-protect them on your private album. Private Photo Vault has a tri-protect system. You can either hide your photos via a secure password system or a nifty pattern lock system. There’s also a pin lock option that lets you hide an image by entering a 4-digit pin.
Of many additional features, my favorite is the decoy password option. It allows users to enter two passwords – one for the personal picture album and a main password for the normal one. You can then enter the main password if someone finds this app and tells you to show what’s behind the protected album.
With a smooth interface and a simple yet extremely secure protection option, the app is a good way to hide your photos on your phone.
Private Photo Vault
- SpyCalc
The photo-hiding feature of SpyCalc seems to be inspired by a James Bond flick. This amazing gadget lets you hide pictures on your iPhone behind an innocent-looking calculator. The app works exactly like a normal calculator, but doubles as a secret safe, where you can type in a number combination to hide/unhide photos.
The free version is ad-supported but has all features of the paid version, so there’s no need to buy the app unless you feel ads are a nuisance. With this app, you can take pictures directly and store them in the calculator app.
It also lets you create categories for your hidden photos, ensuring ease in navigation. With an innovative calculator-safe gadget, Spy Calc makes image-hiding fun and exciting.
- KeepSafe
Another free application, KeepSafe, has an easy-to-use pin lock system that lets you type in a four-digit pin to hide photos on your phone. It has a nice little private camera feature that lets you take pictures and hide them directly into the app–no need for these pictures to spend any time unprotected.
Along with pictures, KeepSafe also lets you hide videos as well. All you need to do is open the application, select the items you want to pin-protect, and import them to the application.
Make sure you delete the picture from your iPhone’s photo app after importing it to the application. You can also create albums inside the app and transfer pictures directly to them.
KeepSafe is a nifty little app that gives you total control over your media. It has only one protection system, but is effective enough to hide private pictures.
Keep Safe
- Pic Lock 2.0
Pic Lock 2.0 is a free photo-hiding application that allows users to protect their private pictures by entering a strong passcode or by creating a complex pattern via a nifty pattern locking system. The app supports iPhone 5 and has a very smooth user interface.
Pic Lock 2.0 offers everything a standard photo-lock app has. These include iTunes sharing via USB, and importing and exporting pictures from and to your iPhone photo app. The free version of the app won’t have regular updates; the paid version promises lifetime updates, to fix stability issues and add new features.
- KYMS
KYMS is another fun app that lets you hide your private pictures on your iPhone via a calculator gadget. The app hides both photos and videos and has a solid password feature.
All videos, whether FLV or AVI, can be played directly into the app, thanks to the integrated video support with the help of Airplay. Unfortunately, this feature is only available with the paid version.
KYMS also doubles as document protection software. You can import PDF and text files to your app and keep them hidden behind a calculator. You can view the documents, like videos, from inside the application, thanks to a nifty viewer integrated within the app.
Another good aspect is the password recovery feature that lets you recover forgotten passwords via a special PUK code.
The app is free, but many of its amazing features are available via in-app purchases. You can import photos, documents, and videos via iTunes or the device camera.
The screenshots in this article are courtesy of their respective application developers.
This article is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business, financial, legal, or technical matters.
© 2013 Anurag
Comments
dainiljoshep on July 25, 2018:
Hii i read your article,it was very informative here i have written one article on app which help’s you to hide your personal photos
A manual to help you in hiding photos with photo locker
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Steve on April 21, 2015:
I installed spycalc but other than letting you hide pictures or videos which I cannot do anything with what good is it? I moved my private AOL account into there under p-browsing but when I try to reply to an email it won’t let me attach pictures from the vault or send the email. Am I doing something wrong or is it not made to be able to do this? Are there other apps where can do this so my email account is locked up and my pictures don’t have to be out of the vault to attach?
DonaldSmith225 on April 02, 2015:
File & Password Vault is highly recommended.
Ayi S on February 25, 2015:
wow, Cool broo.
Pancho Marana from USA on February 23, 2015:
I use vault
ZAKARIEA on February 09, 2015:
Nice and useful hub
Teddy Kimathi from Nairobi on January 27, 2015:
Cool stuff!
Anurag (author) on December 22, 2014:
You’re welcome
Tim Anthony on December 21, 2014:
These app are totally awesome for keeping all my the private photos hidden. I think KeepSafe app is the best place to hide your personal photos and videos for many reasons. Thanks for sharing!
vinay kamal on December 21, 2014:
I have used all these apps and all of them lacked security and needed in-app purchases for majority of the cool features so I created one myself, “Securepad”. It combines all the cool features of all these apps and adds some major needed features such as encrypted data protection, unlimited photos,videos can be saved, Encrypted Icloud backup support, an encrypted notes option and many more features.
The best thing right now is the app is totally free and provides all the above mentioned features in “FREE VERSION” and provide totally Ad free experience to the user.
Ana Maria Orantes from Miami Florida on November 24, 2014:
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about secure picture in our telephones. It is true. Sometimes, it is better to delete the bad looking pictures, but on the other hand, pictures tell the real you. It is better to be open to show yourself completely with out hiding.
best app to hide photos and videos
We all have something to hide from others, something we do not want others to check out. We have come across people who have this tendency to check your gallery whenever they get hold of your phones. It is difficult to make these people understand privacy. It is easier to just hide your private pictures from everyone else. Privacy can stay intact. If you are not sure how to keep your photos hidden from all the eyes around you, then you are at the right place. There are various apps that provide you the space to hide your pictures well. Top 5 free apps to hide photos videos on android
Following are the best 5 apps that are available for free to provide you privacy:
KeepSafe Photo Vault
It is user-friendly. It has gone through various updates and hence provides your pictures security with a pattern, pin and fingerprint. It is free of cost. It lets you form folders according to your choice and add any picture in any folder.
Not just this, it also comes with security notifications like break-ins and fake logins. It takes a picture of the person who tries to break in inside the app. It has its own private cloud space, which makes it easier to store many pictures together. It is hidden when you check the recent menu on your phone.
LockMyPix Photo Vault
This app is a great guard for your pictures. It has military standard AES encryption grade. It provides security through pattern or pin. It is very user-friendly as it lets you add pictures directly into the vault. You can just select the picture and choose to add it in the vault directly from the picture menu. It has an add-on feature that lets you use your fingerprint for entry.
Not just this, but if you see someone coming towards you and not able to use your phone, then you can just shake your phone, and the app will close by itself and will be hidden from the app drawer as well. You cannot take a screenshot in this app while it is unlocked, which is a plus point in the security. Its pro version will give you a choice to save fake logins from confusing others.
Also read: Secret Codes To Check Samsung Phones Sensors
Calculator Photo Vault
This app is very smart. It disguises itself in the name of a simple calculator. Who would think a calculator can hide any pictures or videos you want. This calculator by fishingNet has a hidden heart where you can save your personal pictures and videos. It provides the user with a small home screen camera shortcut through which you can directly add the picture or video you click in the vault without any difficulty, and you also get personal notes, browser, etc.
You have to select a pin that you need to add to the calculator for the entry and then select “=”. Like the previous one in this also you can shake to close and hide the app.
Top 5 free apps to hide photos videos on android
PhotoGuard Photo Vault
It is also AES encrypted and lets you use a password, pin fingerprint, or pattern to open the app. This app provides the user with a personal camera from which the user can take a picture and directly save it in the vault. Like others, not all the features are free of cost, but most are.
If you wish to have extra space, then you need to pay for the unlimited cloud space that comes with fake vault and break-in alerts.
1Gallery
It is much more a photo gallery app and hence contains all the features such as video and photo editor. It also works on the AES encryption system, which makes it secure and safe for use. You get to use a pattern, pin, or fingerprint for safety.
It is very difficult for a new person to get the images unless it’s you. It also has dark mode if you like your screen black instead of white.
Conclusion
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