Vaultaire is a good app. It proved that a pattern vault with real encryption, decoys and a duress wipe beats the 15-year-old photo vaults at the top of the App Store. Vaulteo starts from the same lock and goes another way.
Share the same lock
Both apps turn your pattern into a key on the phone, seal files with AES-256, open a new vault for any new pattern, and offer a duress pattern that removes the other vaults. Neither app has an account, and neither company can open your files.
Choose where your copies live
Vaultaire backs your vaults up to iCloud, encrypted, and syncs them between devices. Lose your iPhone and you get your files back.
Vaulteo keeps your vaults on one iPhone, out of iCloud and out of computer backups. No copy sits on any server, encrypted or not. Lose your iPhone and you lose those vaults, so export what you can't replace.
Pick the trade you can live with.
Get AI on your papers
Vaulteo began as a paper scanner with on-device AI, and the vault grew around it:
- AI reads each paper you scan and files it: kind, sender, amount, due date, to-dos.
- Ask questions in plain words, offline, and get the answer with its page.
- The camera-roll check finds seed phrases, cards and IDs you forgot in Photos.
Vaultaire focuses on photos and files, and does that well.
Pick the right one
| You want | Pick |
|---|---|
| Your vault on iPhone and iPad, synced | Vaultaire |
| An encrypted cloud backup | Vaultaire |
| Nothing on any server, ever | Vaulteo |
| AI that reads your passport, bills and leases | Vaulteo |
| A scan of your camera roll for risky photos | Vaulteo |