Vault Pure has left testing and is live

On 10 August this page said Vault Pure was in internal testing with no release date. That date is now in the past: the app sits in production on Google Play, publicly installable.

What changed since internal testing

The three points the test hung on are settled. Data stays readable across updates, biometric unlock fails cleanly on devices that cannot do it, and nothing ends up in the Android backup.

Two clean-ups came on top, unasked for: four permissions the app never needed are gone. And the plain-text export went with them — it was a hole in an app that promises encryption.

The first update, 1.0.1

One day after release: a few texts tidied up, and the purchase flow now always shows the lowest available price instead of the list price.

What the app does

Photos, videos and files are stored on the device encrypted with AES-256-GCM. No account, no cloud, no synchronisation. A second password opens a harmless-looking decoy vault, and the app never reveals whether one exists. On a wrong entry the front camera takes a picture.

Where to go next

View on Google Play or read the info page, which now shows eight images from the app.