Photok - Secure Photo Vault

Leon Latsch

About this app

Photok – Private Photo Vault, Hide Photos & Videos (Open Source)

Photok is a secure private photo vault that helps you hide photos and videos using strong AES-256 encryption. Protect your sensitive media, create an encrypted gallery, and keep your private memories safe on your own device.

All files are encrypted locally and only decrypted in memory while you use the app. No cloud upload is required.

Photok is open source, ad-free, and built with a privacy-first philosophy. The app uses minimal privacy-friendly analytics to improve stability and user experience.

Why Choose Photok?
• Hide photos and videos securely
• Private encrypted gallery with AES-256 protection
• Offline vault — your files stay on your device
• Open source and transparent security
• Ad-free user experience
• Built by an independent developer

Vault Features
• Import photos & videos from your gallery
• Organize private media into albums
• Export files anytime
• Create and restore encrypted backups
• Unlock your vault with fingerprint authentication
• Share media directly to the vault
• Option to hide the app icon
• Automatically delete original files after import

Privacy-Focused Design
Photok is designed for people who want real control over their private photos and videos.
Encryption happens on your device. Privacy-friendly usage analytics are limited to improving the app and are never used for advertising or cross-app tracking.

View the open-source project on GitHub.

Ratings and reviews

The app works relatively fine. I like the album feature, the fact it's actually encrypted and easy to use. What I don't like: Videos don't autoplay and there is no option to make them loop. By far the biggest issue is the fact the backup feature doesn't even work. It just crashes the app when attempting to restore a backup causing some pretty bad data loss. I'm aware it's complex, but why even have it if it only works sometimes?

Loved Photok until this most recent update requiring "migration" made it literally unusable. It's unable to verify any Photok backups I made. All my photos were saved there, and now they're unaccessible. The app does the "verifying backup" screen for about 10 seconds and then the whole app closes itself out. Made sure I'm on the most recent version, restarted my device twice, even tried deleting the app & reinstalling. Nothing works. Please help! why did you go and break a working app? 😭

Leon - I'll change this back to 5 stars but I needed your attention. LOVE THE APP, perfect, but I switched to the dialer access, entered my preferred pin and now when I enter the series of commands it told me to, I get a message that says "unable to process the request". I didn't lose the password, I remember it, but it seems a bug is preventing the program from launching altogether. Yes the PIN is correct and I used the correct characters before and after to summon this. HELP! ALL MY PHOTOS 😭

What’s new

- Bugfixes and improvements
- Improved password strength algorithm