PVC–Private Vault & Calculator

PVC brings a private local vault and a working calculator together on your iPhone. Keep photos, videos, PDFs, and everyday documents organized in albums, with no account, ads, analytics, or automatic cloud sync. A CALCULATOR AND YOUR PRIVATE VAULT Use everyday arithmetic, percentages, and backspace. On a fresh install, enter 000000 and tap = to create your six-digit vault PIN and save your recovery code. After setup, enter your own PIN and tap = to open the vault. Optional Face ID is available by holding = after enabling it in Settings. ALBUMS FIRST Start with your album list. Open an album to see its files, then swipe between photos and videos. Touch and hold an item to select it. Select All includes the entire open album, including offscreen files, for moving, sharing, or deletion. Pinch or double-tap a photo to zoom. Play videos, read PDFs, and preview supported documents locally. APPLE'S NATIVE PICKERS Tap + to choose Camera, Photo Library, or Files. Capture photos and videos directly into your vault. Import JPEG, PNG, HEIC/HEIF, MOV, MP4, M4V, PDF, text, Markdown, CSV, RTF, and common Office or OpenDocument files. Document preview availability depends on the format. The viewer and bottom selection toolbar share buttons open the native iOS share sheet for photos, videos and documents. Choose a destination there; nothing is automatically saved to Photos. QUICK CAMERA SHORTCUT From the calculator's zero display, tap % twice within 10 seconds of bringing PVC into focus to take a photo. It saves directly to All Media while the vault stays locked. Configure or disable the shortcut in vault Settings. Camera access requires permission and an existing vault. ENCRYPTED VAULT BACKUPS Export the open vault's files and albums as a standard ZIP containing an encrypted .pvcvault file. It uses your current vault PIN, with no separate backup PIN to create. Attach the ZIP to Mail or save it using the system share sheet. Import either a ZIP or .pvcvault file to add files and albums without replacing existing content. Older backups keep the PIN used when exported, even after a PIN change. AES-256-GCM protects the vault inside the ZIP. Keep that PIN safe; it cannot be recovered. ACCESS AND PRIVACY The app locks when it enters the background and after two minutes without interaction. A separate decoy PIN can open another gallery. Optional break-in photos record a local front-camera photo after three incorrect PIN attempts, with permission. No attempted PIN values or audio are recorded by break-in capture. PLEASE KNOW After verified Photos imports, PVC requests removal of the originals. iOS asks you to confirm. Deletion also affects iCloud Photos devices; items may remain in Recently Deleted for up to 30 days. Edited or inaccessible originals may be kept. Live Photos import as a still image only. Files imports automatically remove each original after its vault copy is saved and verified. Changed originals or files a provider will not allow deletion of are kept and reported inline. Deletion may also affect other devices using that file provider. Camera captures are not added to Photos. The daily vault PIN controls app access; local file protection is provided by iOS. Keep your device passcode enabled. Save an encrypted backup before deleting the app or changing phones. A recovery code resets access to existing local data; it cannot restore deleted files or unlock an exported backup. Credentials and break-in logs are excluded from vault backups. Only the currently open real or decoy vault is exported. No automatic cloud backup is provided. Selective exports to Photos and user-directed file sharing are also available. Vault deletion is permanent. No purchase or subscription is required.