Zero Trace Private Photo Vault

NexlyTech

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About this app

Zero Trace is a private photo vault and gallery vault. Hide photos, hide videos and lock files behind a password only you know. Everything is encrypted on your phone first, then backed up to your own Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, so your private gallery follows you to a new phone and nobody else can open it.

Most gallery lock apps keep hidden photos on one phone. Lose the phone and the pictures are gone. Zero Trace is a secret photo vault with encrypted cloud backup, and your photos never pass through us: there are no Zero Trace servers, no account to create, no ads and no analytics.

HIDE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS
• Photo vault and video vault in one private gallery, with swipe, pinch to zoom and a built-in video player
• Import from your gallery and choose to remove the originals, so hidden pictures no longer show in your phone's gallery. Copies in other backup services are not touched
• Private camera: photos you take in the app go straight into the vault and never reach your gallery
• Organise your private photos with tags, favourites, sorting and search
• Select many items at once to tag, star or move them
• 30-day Trash, so a hidden photo deleted by mistake can be restored

FILE LOCKER, DOCUMENT SCANNER AND VOICE MEMOS
• File vault for PDFs, documents and any other file you want to lock
• Read PDF, Word, Markdown and text files inside the app
• Document scanner: scan pages into one PDF, saved straight into the vault
• Encrypted voice memo recorder, with the option to keep recording while the screen is off
• Share files into the vault from other apps

PRIVATE NOTES AND JOURNAL
• Encrypted journal for secret notes, with rich text, highlights and pinned entries
• Link entries to each other by title
• Import your notes from Notion or Obsidian

APP LOCK FOR YOUR VAULT
• Master password, plus fingerprint or face unlock
• Auto-lock when you leave the app, and shake to lock in an instant
• Intruder photo: a front-camera picture of whoever enters a wrong password, with a break-in log
• Screenshots and screen recording are blocked, and the preview in recent apps is blank
• Growing delays after repeated wrong passwords

ENCRYPTED CLOUD BACKUP IN YOUR OWN CLOUD
• AES-256 encryption on your device, before anything is uploaded
• File names, types and tags are encrypted too. Your cloud provider only sees scrambled data with meaningless names
• Stored in your own Google Drive. Add Dropbox and OneDrive accounts for more space
• Camera backup: new photos are encrypted and uploaded while the app is open and unlocked
• Keep files offline for flights and dead zones, still encrypted on your phone
• Storage overview and duplicate finder to free up space
• Get a new phone, connect your cloud account, enter your recovery phrase, and your photo vault is back

OPTIONAL DISGUISE
Zero Trace works as a normal vault app. If you want extra cover, you can switch these on in Settings:
• Calculator disguise: the app opens as a real, working calculator until you type your PIN
• A different app icon on your home screen: Calculator, Notes or Fitness
• Decoy vault: a second password opens a separate vault with different contents, to keep a casual look away from the real one

YOUR KEYS, NOT OURS
You hold a 12-word recovery phrase. No key is ever uploaded, and no password reset exists on our side, because we never have anything to reset.

RECOVERY: KEEP YOUR PHRASE SAFE
Your 12-word recovery phrase is the only way into your vault on a new phone. If you lose the phrase and your device, nobody can recover your files. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.

Available in English, العربية, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski and Português.

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