Launched this week
Noxium: Private Photo Vault
Hidden is not private. Draw a line to open your vault
2 followers
Hidden is not private. Draw a line to open your vault
2 followers
An iPhone and iPad app that hides photos, videos and notes in encrypted vaults. Draw a pattern across at least 6 bolts on a 5×5 plate of 25 bolts. Face ID can open the main vault. Everything is encrypted on the device. Keys come from your pattern through Argon2id (libsodium); files are sealed with AES-256-GCM (Apple CryptoKit). Names, dates and places are encrypted too. The pattern is never stored. An encrypted backup goes to your own private iCloud (CloudKit).
Free Options
Launch Team
CloudflareStill paying to deploy your apps? Try Cloudflare Workers for free
Promoted
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Milan, the solo maker behind Noxium.
I built it because the iPhone's Hidden album isn't really private. It's a folder inside Photos, and anyone who knows your passcode can open it. I wanted a lock of its own that nobody could guess by watching over my shoulder.
So Noxium opens when you draw a pattern across a 5×5 grid of bolts, touching at least 6. The pattern is never stored, and everything is encrypted on your phone.
A few things I cared about:
Decoy vault: draw a different pattern and a harmless vault opens instead
Encrypted backup to your own iCloud, so you can restore on a new iPhone
No account, no ads, no analytics
A free tier you can actually use: 150 photos, 10 videos, unlimited notes, a decoy vault and backup
For the PH community: the free tier needs no account, and Pro yearly comes with a 1-week free trial.
I'd love blunt feedback on two things. Is the pattern easy to remember after a day? And what would make you trust a vault app with your photos?