# Trustful: Photo Vault — Lock & Hide Pictures & Videos > Encrypted local and iCloud photo and video vault with privacy features. (iPhone/iPad app by Maulik Sutariya.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trustful-photo-vault/id1533935629 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Maulik Sutariya](https://appshunter.io/developer/924830010) - Category: Photo & Video, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 4.60/5 from 50 App Store ratings · 33 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.6 · 32 MB - Languages: Australian English, Canadian French, German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), Latin American Spanish - Released: 2020-11-06 - Data updated: 2026-08-27 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trustful-photo-vault/id1533935629/reviews.md ## What is Trustful? Trustful lets you secure your photos and videos locally and in iCloud. It’s so secure, you can store photos of confidential or private documents, credit cards, or any kind of personal photos or videos with complete peace of mind. Privacy Trustful does not collect any kind of data, absolutely none. No use of third party SDK’s or frameworks to ensure maximum privacy. There are no ads or analytics in the App. Your data is yours & only yours. No one in this world can see or access your photos or videos stored in the Trustful app (locally or in the cloud). Encryption Every photo and video is encrypted locally and in iCloud using the secret key and master password, which only you know in this entire world. Photos & videos always exist in an encrypted form, they are decrypted live only when you open & unlock the app. As soon as the app goes to background or is closed, no data can be accessed locally since everything is always in encrypted form. Every photo & video that is synced to iCloud, it is always in an encrypted form. Private Camera Trustful's built-in camera helps you capture photos & videos without leaving the app. Design & User Experience Trustful Private Photo Video Vault is designed & developed to create a great experience for you with no compromise on privacy & with advanced features. Everything works buttery smooth and is customizable according to your needs & mood. iCloud Storage & Sync Be at complete peace of mind. Never lose any of your photos or videos. All of your photos & videos are stored in iCloud securely in encrypted form & synced seamlessly across all of your Apple devices (iOS, iPadOS & macOS) Import Photos Import photos and videos from Photo Library, Files, capture using in-built camera or using Share Extension. Trustful supports all the widely used image & video formats (JPG, PNG, HEIC, Live Photo, GIF, TIFF, MOV, HEIF, MP4). Media Metadata You can see all the metadata information (size, camera info, gps & more) of every photo & video right within the Trustful app. Smart Search Trustful automatically categorizes photos using Machine Learning. Search photos by location (country, state, city, region), time, media types and media formats in smart search. Organize Smartly organize photos using Albums & Collections. Quickly set photo as favourite. Add Photos to Albums & organize Albums by adding them to Collections. Lock App You can lock the app by setting the master password to prevent unauthorized access to your photos & videos. You can unlock the app using master password or using biometrics available on your device (Face ID or Touch ID). Decoy Account Create a fake account, so whenever you enter the fake pin the app will show photos of the decoy account instead of photos in your main account. Intruder Break-In Captures & Alerts Keep an eye on people who try to enter wrong password in the app or if someone tries to open the app without you knowing about it. Photo Editor Edit photos directly within the app with built-in photo editor and apply amazing filters. Easily revert edited photos to the original with a single tap. Photo Editor is updated & improved with more amazing features with each update. Customize Set Photos View Mode (Square or Aspect). Customize the number of photo columns. Change cover photo of an Album or a Collection. Customize the look & feel of the entire app by changing themes. Recover Recently Deleted Photos Recover deleted Photos & videos easily for up to 30 days after the date of deletion from the Recently Deleted Album. Family Sharing Trustful Premium subscription supports Family Sharing. Help & Support If you have any questions or need help, feel free to reach out & contact at truemaulik@icloud.com. Committed to help you in every way possible & provide you the best support. And that’s a promise. Privacy Policy: https://truemaulik.com/docs/trustful/privacy-policy.html Terms And Conditions: https://truemaulik.com/docs/trustful/terms-and-conditions.html ## Key features - Local and iCloud encryption - Decoy account - Private camera - Intruder alerts - Smart photo categorization - Organize with albums and collections - Biometric unlock ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Trustful Premium (Yearly) | $29.99 | per year | | Trustful Premium (Monthly) | $9.99 | per month | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Trustful Premium (Lifetime) | $399.00 | one-time | ## Recent user reviews (10 of 33) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trustful-photo-vault/id1533935629/reviews.md ### 4/5 — Hasty Judgment *2026-02-03* I previously reviewed the app with a 3-star rating. I have learned more about the app and the developer. I raise it to 4-Stars. My initial rating was premature. I still have concerns about the manner in which the app functions, but I am becoming more confident that some of my initial concerns are either addressed outright or through some workarounds. More thought and exploration has been given to this than the simple UI belies. In fact, it’s the simplicity of the app that caused my greatest concerns. Although still not as intuitive as I would like, I am finding it more robust than belies some more feature-rich app. I questions myself, as a certified database designer, what has app tech done to me? Much more thought out than I expressed in my initial review. Well done, Mr. Sutariya. **Developer response:** Hi CarefreeFisher, Firstly, I am so glad that Trustful has got rating increment from 3-stars to 4-stars from you. Much appreciated & means a lot to me as an Indie Developer. I'm truly thankful and grateful to you for taking the time to write a review, share your experience with Trustful, and provide honest feedback. I'm also very glad to know that you're happy with the Trustful Photo Vault app. Really appreciate you for sharing your honest feedback on the App Store and for being with me on this journey. My vision with Trustful is very honest & clear. I want to allow people to have total control over the photos & videos with total privacy. There are a lot of improvements coming in Trustful this year especially for macOS app. And I promise, Trustful will continue to get better with each update. Now one of my next goal is to get full 5-stars from you & make you fully satisfied with Trustful app experience 🎉. Once again, Thank you so much for sharing your feedback and updating the rating to 4-stars. If you have any feedback, suggestions, or need any kind of help, please feel free to email me at truemaulik@icloud.com. I'm always here to help you. I'm doing my best to keep Trustful updated with new features that improve your experience-and every Trustful user's experience-and help everyone take control of their privacy in every possible way. Thank you, CarefreeFisher 😊🙏🏼❤️ Regards, Maulik Sutariya ### 4/5 — Acct settings *2025-11-09* I just got this on my Mac, but also downloaded to my iPhone as well. Problem is on the iPhone it’s asking me to set up another account. I just want to use the 1 account that’s on my Mac and have it available on iPhone and iPad? Help 😬 **Developer response:** Hi Ricco240266, Thank you so much for reaching out to me. Don’t worry, I am here to help you. Indeed, Trustful is meant to sync across iOS, iPadOS & macOS via iCloud 🙂. I will shared the steps here: Since you have already downloaded it on the Mac. You will have Trustful Emergency Kit which has Secret Key & Trustful QR Code. On iPhone, it will let you know that you already have Encryption setup. It will ask you to Recover Trustful Account. Tap on it & now Scan Trustful QR Code from the Trustful Emergency Kit on your Mac or Enter Secret Key manually& it will recover your Encryption on iPhone & it should be ready to sync across your devices. If you need any help with steps or want me to help you guide through the steps, feel free to reach out to me via mail (truemaulik@icloud.com) I am always here to help you till you are happy & satisfied 🙂🙏🏼 Thanks & Regards Maulik Sutariya iOS Developer & Entrepreneur. ### 5/5 — Pratique et prix raisonnable *2025-03-06, version 4.1* J’ai pris l’abo premium pour avoir la synchro via icloud entre mac et iphone (avec encryption des données) et c’est exactement ce que je cherchais pour un prix tout à fait raisonnable (10€/an!) comparé à ce que facturent d’autres. Il y a bien encore qq bricoles qui pourraient être améliorées mais je resterai sur cette app après en avoir testé de nombreuses autres :) ### 5/5 — App complète et prix raisonnable *2025-03-06, version 4.1* J’ai pris l’abo premium pour avoir la synchro via icloud entre mac et iphone (avec encryption des données) et c’est exactement ce que je cherchais pour un prix tout à fait raisonnable (10€/an!) comparé à ce que facturent d’autres. Il y a bien encore qq bricoles qui pourraient être améliorées mais je resterai sur cette app après en avoir testé de nombreuses autres :) ### 4/5 — Hi *2025-02-07* Apple photo album organizer added to camera roll photo album organizer , Adding photo sideways , Added photo gps Note Perth Apple photo album organizer added to camera roll photo album organizer , Adding photo sideways , Added photo gps **Developer response:** Hi jessssheila, I really appreciate, you taking your precious time to write a review & sharing your feelings about Trustful. I hope you have a great experience using the Trustful app.  Thanks & Regards   Maulik ### 4/5 — great, but manual sort? *2024-10-29* this app is everything i’m looking for in a photo app. but the only big thing missing is manual sorting, i can’t slide my photos around to make it look nice and organized. do you think this feature could be implemented? if that ends up being a feature then it’s a 5 star app. good nonetheless! ### 1/5 — No way to view filenames *2024-03-14* No way to view video or image filenames. This is critical when you have multiple videos without images in the first frame. Basically, you just see a black box with a play button, but you have no way to know what video it is unless you click on it. There is also no way to arrange the files within a folder once uploaded. **Developer response:** Hi TEWILLIS_Author,  Thank you for writing a review & sharing about your Trustful experience & feedback. Trustful already shows all the metadata & information related to Photo or Video. I am sorry to know that you were not able to find a way to view video or image names. I will help you with it. In Photos View, you can right click any photo or video & select Info fro menu to see all Photos or Video metadata including filename. And if you are in Photo Viewer, then you can tap on the info button on the top right to see the metadata of photo or video on macOS. It also shows file name & many more useful details as well. If you would have reached out to me via mail, I would have helped you there as well.  If you have any feedback or suggestions or need any kind of help, please feel free to send me an email (truemaulik@icloud.com). I am always there to help you. Thank You 😊🙏🏼 Regards  Maulik ### 3/5 — Good but Slideshow Missing *2024-01-12* It has all regular photo features but missing a big one: Slideshow. To view hundreds of pictures your finger gets tired an you close the app. **Developer response:** Hi chbto, I am thankful & grateful to you, for taking your precious time to write a review sharing your Trustful experience & an honest feedback. It means a lot to me. And also, I am glad to know that you like Trustful & consider it as a Good app. I have tried to make the app in the best way I can without compromising on Privacy. Trustful has 100% Encryption for Photos & Videos both. So it's live decrypted whenever you scroll through photos and videos. And for videos, it can take time to decrypt due to which it can interrupt slideshow in between & make it pause. So Trustful does not have slideshow till now. But if it is something very important & needed, I will try my best to add Slideshow feature in the best possible way (maybe for Photos only). Feel free to reach out to me via email or iMessage at truemaulik@icloud if you need any kind of help. I am always there to help. Thank You 🙂🙏🏼❤️ Regards Maulik ### 3/5 — Clunky but has potential *2023-10-16* No ads and not harvesting my data is a major plus. In my experience is very rare for an app like this to have no ads and be mostly free, so that is a big bonus. However there is a premium upgrade. Many of the features in the description of the app are hidden behind this payment, like encryption, but nowhere in the description does it say this, so you won’t know until you try to enable it in the app. The app has a bit of clunkiness and inconveniences that make me hesitant to use it: You can’t manually rearrange the order of photo albums. Subfolders can’t be easily created in an album (first you have to create a “collection” on a separate tab and then add albums to the collection). You can’t add an album to an album or a collection to a collection, so there is a 1 sub-folder depth limit Photos cannot be imported directly to an album (they must first be imported to the app, then added to an album separately). There is a photo import limit (9 photos at a time without premium) but the app doesn’t tell you there is a limit until after you select the photos and press “import”. When selecting photos to import you cannot swipe to quickly select multiple photos (you must tap one photo at a time) The app certainly has promise and with some improvements could be one of the better options for photo management. But in its current state it’s not the best solution for someone with a large number of photos. **Developer response:** Hi OldManSchwann, I am thankful & grateful to you, for taking your precious time to write a review sharing your Trustful experience & an honest feedback. It means a lot to me. And also, I am glad to know for your appreciation for Trustful & believing in its potential.  I have tried to make the app in the best way I can without compromising on Privacy. Yes, you are correct. Trustful does not have any 3rd Party SDK, & therefore not even a single bit of data is collected by anyone in this world & user has 100% privacy & total control over his/her Trustful data. I have tried my best to keep most of the features available for user to have a small experience of how the app would behave & all the features. So, if users likes it, they can continue further with Trustful Premium. And Trustful is made with Minimalism & Simplicity in mind. And I have been updating Trustful with each update since its launch. And will continue to improve it in future as well. There are some features which you have mentioned, would soon be available in Trustful this year. I really appreciate your feedback. Feel free to reach out to me via email or iMessage at truemaulik@icloud if you need any kind of help. I am always there to help. Thank you for using Trustful. Thank You 🙂🙏🏼❤️ Regards Maulik ### 5/5 — SImplicity is KEY *2023-09-26* This app is everything i was looking for and but it also had a bunch of bells and wistles to boot. i was just in search or an aternative to iclouds which has become out of control in pricing ect. **Developer response:** Hi Hvacguy31, I am thankful & grateful to you, for taking your precious time to write a review sharing your Trustful experience & an honest feedback. It means a lot to me. And also, I am so glad to know that you are enjoying using Trustful Photo Vault App for storing your Private data. I am so glad to know that you are loving the simplicity of Trustful app. And also so happy to see that you are very happy with the pricing. I want to give user the best experience to store Photos & Videos with 100% Privacy. Really appreciate your honest review & feedback. This means a lot to me as an Indie Developer. Thank you for appreciating the Trustful app & being with me on this Journey. I will continue to make Trustful better with each update. If you have any feedback or suggestions or need any kind of help, please feel free to send me an email (truemaulik@icloud.com). I am always there to help you. I am trying my best to keep Trustful updated with new features which make yours & every Trustful user's experience better & help them take control over their Privacy in every possible way. Thank You 😊🙏🏼❤️ Regards Maulik ## Frequently asked questions about Trustful ### What does Trustful do? Trustful is an app designed to securely store your photos and videos. It encrypts your media both locally on your device and in iCloud, ensuring that only you can access them. The app also offers features like a decoy account and intruder alerts for enhanced privacy. ### How does Trustful protect my photos and videos? Your photos and videos are encrypted using a master password that only you know. This encryption is applied locally and when syncing to iCloud. The app ensures that data is always in an encrypted form, even when in the background or closed, and decrypts it live only when you unlock the app. ### Is Trustful free to use? The application is free to download and use, offering core features for securing your media. However, it does have in-app purchases, suggesting that advanced features or additional storage options may be available for purchase. ### What devices is Trustful compatible with? Trustful is designed for Apple devices, including iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. It supports seamless syncing across all your Apple devices through iCloud, ensuring your encrypted media is accessible wherever you are within the Apple ecosystem. ### Can I import photos from other sources? Yes, you can import photos and videos from your Photo Library and Files app. Additionally, you can capture media directly using the app's built-in camera or utilize the Share Extension. Trustful supports a wide range of common image and video formats. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 26.10 — 2026-08-25 Thank you so much for using & supporting Trustful. • This update includes routine maintenance, stability improvements, and small behind-the-scenes refinements. Thanks to all the Trustful users who keep on sharing helpful feedback & suggestions! Have a great day! ### 26.9 — 2026-08-09 Thank you so much for using & supporting Trustful. • This update includes routine maintenance, stability improvements, and small behind-the-scenes refinements. Thanks to all the Trustful users who keep on sharing helpful feedback & suggestions! Have a great day! ### 26.8 — 2026-07-13 Thank you so much for using & supporting Trustful. • This update includes routine maintenance, stability improvements, and small behind-the-scenes refinements. Thanks to all the Trustful users who keep on sharing helpful feedback & suggestions! Have a great day! ### 26.7 — 2026-06-24 Thank you so much for using & supporting Trustful. • This update includes routine maintenance, stability improvements, and small behind-the-scenes refinements. Thanks to all the Trustful users who keep on sharing helpful feedback & suggestions! Have a great day! ### 26.6 — 2026-06-03 Thank you so much for using & supporting Trustful. • This update includes routine maintenance, stability improvements, and small behind-the-scenes refinements. Thanks to all the Trustful users who keep on sharing helpful feedback & suggestions! 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