Shorty Vault: Gallery Lock

Shorty Vault keeps your private photos, videos and files behind a lock, encrypted on your phone.

Move photos and videos out of your gallery and into Shorty Vault. Each file is encrypted the moment it comes in, and the app offers to remove the original from your gallery (Android asks you to confirm). Your photos are never uploaded. There is no account and no cloud copy.

NEW: HIDDEN AS A CALCULATOR
• Show the app on your home screen as Calculator, Clock or Notes
• As Calculator it opens as a real, working calculator. Type your PIN and press = to open your vault

NEW: PRIVATE CAMERA
• Take photos and videos straight into the vault
• They never touch your gallery

NEW: FILES AND DOCUMENTS
• Lock PDFs, scans, documents and any other file
• Read PDFs right inside the app

NEW: RECENTLY DELETED
• Deleted something by mistake? It waits in Recently deleted for 30 days, and you can restore it

MORE WAYS TO STAY PRIVATE
• Share to hide: in your gallery or any app, tap Share, then Shorty Vault
• Encrypted backup: save your whole vault to one password-protected file, and restore it on a new phone
• Decoy vault: a second PIN opens a separate, harmless vault
• Intruder photos: after 3 wrong PINs in a row, the front camera takes a photo of whoever tried

LOCKED THE WAY YOU LIKE
• Unlock with a PIN (4 to 8 digits), a pattern, or your fingerprint
• The vault locks as soon as you leave the app or turn off the screen
• The app switcher shows a blank screen, and screenshots are blocked inside the app
• After 5 wrong tries, the app makes you wait, and the wait gets longer each time

ENCRYPTED ON YOUR PHONE
• Every photo, video, file and thumbnail is encrypted with AES-256-GCM
• File names, album names and dates are encrypted too
• The encryption key is kept in the Android Keystore and never leaves your phone
• Videos play straight from the vault. They are decrypted in memory, not copied out

SIMPLE TO USE
• Sort everything into albums
• Swipe through photos, zoom in, and play videos with scrubbing
• Select several items at once to move, save or delete them
• Available in English, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Hindi

IF YOU FORGET YOUR PIN
When you set up the app, you get a one-time recovery code. Keep it somewhere safe. It lets you set a new PIN without losing anything.

PLEASE NOTE
If you uninstall the app, clear its data or reset your phone, everything in the vault is erased. Make a backup first, or move items back to your gallery.

Permissions: the app asks for access to your photos and videos so you can choose what to move into the vault and remove the originals. The camera and microphone are used only for the private camera and, if you turn them on, intruder photos. Nothing from inside the vault is ever collected or shared. The app sends only anonymous usage counts and crash reports (Firebase), described in the privacy policy.

Recent changes:
Stability fix: leaving the app while it is saving no longer causes an error, and your last change is kept.