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Best Photo Vault Apps for iPhone (2026)
Private Photo Vault - Pic Safe is the top-ranked of 40 photo vault apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 1,017,536 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,017,536 ratings · score 99 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 384,613 ratings · score 98 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 26,322 ratings · score 95 - 4
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 24,859 ratings · score 94 - 5
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 30,270 ratings · score 93
What belongs in this list
Hide private photos and videos behind a passcode or lock so others using my phone cannot see them.
Not here: Photo backup to cloud alone; A photo viewer or gallery alone; A photo booth app alone; Photo widgets alone; A wallpaper pack alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,017,536 ratings · score 99 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 384,613 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 26,322 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 4Free download · ★ 4.8 · 24,859 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 5Free download · ★ 4.7 · 30,270 ratings · score 93 · best in class
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 38,914 ratings · score 93 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 69,924 ratings · score 93 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 4,534 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 28,922 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 10
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,599 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,835 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 12
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 10,000 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 4,557 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 14
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 25,485 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 49 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5,795 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 17
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 24,765 ratings · score 84 · excellent - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 8,755 ratings · score 84 · excellent - 19
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 13,705 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 23,508 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 21
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 7,077 ratings · score 81 · good - 22
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 2,099 ratings · score 79 · good - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 12,912 ratings · score 79 · good - 24
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 73 ratings · score 75 · good - 25
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 17,327 ratings · score 75 · good - 26
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 27,389 ratings · score 75 · good - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 6,571 ratings · score 72 · good - 28
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 7,688 ratings · score 71 · good - 29
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 9,692 ratings · score 69 · situational - 30
$4.99 · ★ 4.7 · 4,699 ratings · score 69 · situational - 31
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 76,581 ratings · score 69 · situational - 32
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 6,466 ratings · score 69 · situational - 33
Free download · ★ 3.8 · 6,108 ratings · score 68 · situational - 34
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 14,150 ratings · score 68 · situational - 35
$4.99 · ★ 4.7 · 5,176 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 36
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,467 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 37
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,573 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 38
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,597 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 39
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 4,570 ratings · score 66 · situational - 40
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,519 ratings · score 62 · situational · provisional
Beyond the top 40
13 more, not ranked yet
- Photo Vault: Secret Lock
- Secret Photo Vault - Hide App
- SPV - Safe Privacy Vault
- Converter: Hidden Photo Vault
- App Lock, Hide App & Lock Apps
- WhatsVault - WA Web Chats
- Photo & Video Vault - Private Secret Album Locker
- AMongLock Screen 2
- Safe Vault - Private Photo & Video Manager
- Password Manager - Photo Vault
- Cloakd: Privacy App Vault
- Privacy Vault - Hide Files
- Privacy Vault - Photo & Video
New in the last 30 days
- Safe Lock - Hidden Photo Vault (S)
- Photo Gallery - Gallery Lock (A)
- InCalc - Photo Lock (A)
- App Lock - Lock Apps & Photos (A)
- Secret Safe Lock Vault Manager (A)
- Hide Photos Video -Hide it Pro (A)
- Secret Photo Album · 1Locker (A)
- Photo Vault - Darkbox (B)
- Best Secret Folder (B)
- Lock My Folder - Vault & Safe (B)
- Secret photos - KYMS (B)
- Secret Photo Vault Lock Photos (B)
- Secret Key Lock Album (B)
- App Lock, Hide Passwords Apps (C)
- Secret photos KYMS (C)
- Calculator Lock - Secure Vault (C)
- Lock Master Photo Album (C)
- Secret Photo Album ++ (C)
- Safety Photo+Video Pro (C)
- Photo & Video Vault - MaxVault (C)
- LockMyPix Secret Photo Vault (C)
- App Lock™ - Locked Apps Vault (C)
- Photo Vault | Hidden Album PV (C)
- Gallery - Private Photo Vault (C)
Questions people ask
- What is the best photo vault app for iPhone?
- Private Photo Vault - Pic Safe, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.8 by 1,017,536 people.
- Which photo vault apps are free?
- 38 of 40 are free to download: Private Photo Vault - Pic Safe (S), Secret Photo Vault: Keepsafe (S), SV - Private Photo Vault PRO (S), Safe Lock - Hidden Photo Vault (S) and more. 22 of them sell in-app purchases.
- Which photo vault app has the best App Store rating?
- SV - Private Photo Vault PRO at 4.9 from 26,322 ratings.
- How many photo vault apps reach S or A tier?
- 20 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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