You draw a shape. Vaulteo turns that shape into a key, and the key seals everything you put inside. Nothing else in the app can open your files: no Face ID shortcut, no master password, no copy on a server.
Watch your pattern become a key
When you lift your finger, Vaulteo takes the dots you connected, in order, and runs them through PBKDF2-SHA512 for 600,000 rounds. Your iPhone mixes in a random salt that it keeps in its own Keychain, marked for this device only. Out comes a 256-bit key.
That key never touches the disk. Vaulteo uses it to unwrap the vault's own random key, then holds it in memory while the vault stays open. Leave the app and the key disappears.
Want to feel it? Draw a pattern in the live demo on the home page. Your browser runs the same 600,000 rounds and tells you how long they took.
Seal every file on its own
Vaulteo seals each page, photo, thumbnail, index and chat with AES-256-GCM. GCM also checks every file for tampering, so a changed byte fails to open instead of opening wrong.
| What Vaulteo seals | How |
|---|---|
| Scanned pages and PDFs | AES-256-GCM, one sealed file per page |
| Photos | AES-256-GCM, sealed whole |
| Videos | AES-256-GCM in 1 MB pieces, played without unsealing to disk |
| Your library, folders and to-dos | AES-256-GCM |
| Your AI chats | AES-256-GCM |
On top of that, iOS adds its own Complete Protection class to each file, so the phone keeps them sealed whenever it's locked too.
Connect the dots you jump over
Drag straight from one corner to the other and Vaulteo adds every dot on the line, like Android does. Fast patterns still come out exactly as you meant them.
Pick a pattern a shoulder can't read
- Use 7 dots or more.
- Cross your own line at least once.
- Skip the letters of your name and the obvious L, Z and box shapes.
- Draw it with your hand turned away from people near you.
Know what the pattern can't do
Your pattern protects your files inside Vaulteo. It doesn't hide the app from your home screen, and it can't protect a photo you leave in Photos. Move the original in, then delete it from Recently Deleted as well.
Forget the pattern and only your 9 recovery words open the vault again, on the same iPhone. Write them on paper the day you create the vault.