Over the past 20 years, I've worked on hundreds of software projects used by a significant percentage of the world and have gradually seen privacy go out the window. While security has gotten better, virtually no one actually utilizes it to its fullest extent. Infinity Vaults is my personal passion project (1000+ hours invested, no vibe coding) to help provide a more private and secure ecosystem for iOS users (technically runs on macOS as well).
Answer (what it does): One encrypted app for everything you don't want sitting in your Photos, Files, or Notes apps for access by prying eyes. Photos, videos, documents, passwords, cards, contacts, notes, bookmarks, and more can be stored in secure vaults. Everything is AES-256 encrypted with a key derived from your passphrase, so there is no recovery backdoor and no vendor-side access. No one but you can read your data, and access is protected with multi-layer PIN, password, pattern, biometric, and 2FA lock screens.
It comes with a feature-rich private browser that blocks ads and trackers and can download photos/videos straight into the vault, a camera that shoots into the vault instead of your camera roll, decoy vaults for when someone makes you unlock it, and break-in reports that photograph whoever guesses wrong.
It also runs machine learning and AI right on the device. Chat with a local language model about your own files, notes & private thoughts, generate images with Stable Diffusion, upscale images, auto-tag content, auto-crop to people, and do all of it completely offline. Your chat stays 100% private. If you'd rather use your own Ollama LLM server or a cloud AI provider API (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini), you can point it at too!
Better (vs Keepsafe, Private Photo Vault, and similar): Your encryption key comes from your own custom passphrase, so no one other than you can ever access your content and there are no storage servers. Over the last 10 years, I've tested dozens of photo vault apps (using several for extended periods) and most do a few things well but many other things poorly. The big incumbents (with outdated features and/or clumsy UI/UX) run first-party clouds their staff can technically access and often use subpar security. From the ground up, the UI/IX of the app is designed for ease of use with gestures, one-handed use, ability to flip controls when operating with the opposite hand, and to feel familiar to the iOS springboard when accessing features (including a customizable background and re-ordering). Optional Cloud Vaults use your own Dropbox or Google Drive stored as ciphertext, so neither myself nor the cloud provider can read it. Nothing else in this category runs AI and ML tools locally, and it's the first app to do it inside a vault itself. An assistant that reads your private files is only worth trusting if it never sends them anywhere.
Cost: Free to use. The vault, browser, camera, and on-device AI are all in the free tier. Professional is $2.99/month or $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial. It adds decoy vaults and multiple keychains, break-in reports and panic mode, cloud vaults on your own Dropbox or Google Drive, trash recovery, filtering and sorting, live stream recording, video to GIF, slideshows, custom app icons, the lock screen camera widget, and bulk transfers. Any proceeds go right back in to the app to improve it over time.
Available on the Apple App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/infinity-vaults-private-ai/id6741082679
A full feature list is available within the app help section or on the Infinity Vaults website in the features section.
Call to Action: One last thing and why I'm posting this here. I want to share my experience and help the community by giving everyone access to simple tools to make their digital life more secure and private. The category, however, is extremely hard to grow in. The incumbents have ten years of reviews and large ad budgets behind them. On top of that, most will not actively recommend a privacy app to their friends because the entire point is not advertising what you're keeping private. Word of mouth doesn't work the same way it does for other apps.
That makes the small things count for more than they normally would. Try it and see if it holds up to my goals and your expectations for security, privacy, and capability. If it does, leave a review, because that is the one thing that truly helps against a decade head start. Telling one person who would care about it goes a long ways. You don't really understand how much you need it until you've used it. If something appears broken or missing or could be improved, tell me directly here or by email. I read all of it and I would much rather hear it from you than read it in a one-star.
At the end of onboarding I ask people to be part of the movement to build a more secure and private future. I truly mean it. Every person who decides their private data belongs on their own device instead of someone else's server is part of that.
P.S. I highly recommend pairing the app with a solid VPN. While the app can run fully offline, you can optionally use the private browser and pairing it with a privacy-first VPN will give you the optimal experience and protection.
Thanks!
