A vault app with no account and no cloud

Why no cloud?

Every copy of a private file is one more place it can leak from. Keeping folders only on your phone means there's no server to break into, no password reset email that someone could abuse, and no company that can be asked to hand over your files. Vaultessa doesn't have them to begin with.

What "no account" means in practice

• You never type an email address or create a password.
• Vaultessa works in airplane mode. It only talks to Google Play to buy or restore Pro (and, with a subscription, once a day to check it).
• There's no "forgot password" email. Instead, each folder has a recovery code you write down when you create it.

Backups, your way

From a folder's menu, Create backup saves the whole folder as one encrypted .vaultessa file wherever you choose: your computer, a USB stick, or a cloud drive you trust. The backup stays encrypted and opens only with that folder's recovery code.

Vaultessa checks every part of a backup when restoring. If anything was changed, removed or mixed in, the restore is refused rather than giving you damaged files.

Moving to a new phone

1. On the old phone, make a backup of each folder.
2. Copy the .vaultessa files to the new phone.
3. Install Vaultessa, tap Forgot pattern? › Restore from a backup file, choose the file and enter the recovery code.
4. Draw a new pattern for the folder. Your files are back.

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