Lock Your Roll vs HideApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lock Your Roll
Securely hide private photos directly from your camera roll without moving them. This app blurs your images, making them unviewable until unlocked within the app, ensuring your sensitive content remains private and offline.
- Lock photos directly from camera roll
- Adjustable blur intensity
- Offline functionality
- Face ID app lock
- OCR text extraction
- QR code reading
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Lock Your Roll is a new and innovative idea to lock (or unlock) your photos directly from your camera roll without removing or moving in another albums! Now you can give your phone to your friends without worrying about your secret or NSFW photos. FEATURES: • Your photos remain originally exactly were there are: you see only a blurred version of it. • Your blurred photos are un-lockable directly from the app or from your roll, is a safe procedure to avoid data lost. • Your photos are NOT uploaded to cloud, it works completely offline. • You can manage the intensity of blur • Your photos must be original and unedited. By unlocking the photo, you will lose your edits as a result. • Extract text using OCR from screenshots • Read QR codes from your images • You can lock the app using your face-id • Compatible with iPhone and iPad. It's safe by design! Give us a chance and try it for free! Suggestion? Bugs? Please drop an email at lyr-support@albertopasca.it or use the in-app support.
HideApp
Securely store your private photos, videos, and documents with on-device encryption. Create unlimited vaults and protect your files with military-grade security. Choose your preferred login method for added privacy.
- On-device encryption
- Unlimited vaults
- Hide photos and videos
- Encrypt documents
- 256-bit encryption
- PIN and Biometric login
- Customizable encryption settings
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Hide your private photos, videos and documents from prying eyes? Encryption/decryption is done on your device. Your data is never uploaded by HideApp to the cloud. Features • Create your own vault • Unlimited number of vaults • Hide/encrypt photos and videos from Photo gallery • Hide/encrypt any document (PDF, MSWord, MSExcel, MSPowerPoint, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Text files and many more) • Each photo, video, document is individually encrypted • Blurred thumbnail for encrypted photo/video (optional) • Prompt for deletion of original photo, video or document after hiding • No file size limit on photo, video or document • Personalisation: ○ Automatic or user customisable destination folder for encrypted files ○ Blurness level (Low, Medium or High) ○ Thumbnail size for encrypted photo/video (Small, Medium or Large) Security • 256-bit military grade encryption (Apple CryptoKit) • Login using 4-8 digit PIN or Biometric (TouchID or FaceID) • Specify your own "secret key" for encryption. • PIN login required if Biometric data (TouchID or FaceID) changed • Delayed PIN login after 3 or more unsuccessful attempts • Personalisation: ○ Disable PIN login (not recommended) ○ PIN length (4-8 digits) ○ Disable Biometric use (TouchID or FaceID) Multiple Tiers • Free, up to 5 items • Unlimited, no item limit; device capacity limit (IAP) • No on-going subscription For support, feedback, feature requests, please contact at hideapp_support@icloud.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HideApp at every 3 weeks against Lock Your Roll's every 14 months. Lock Your Roll's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lock Your Roll sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and HideApp sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lock Your Roll ships an update every 14 months, HideApp every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and June 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lock Your Roll | HideApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 172 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | albertopasca.it | MAURICE LEUNG PIN |
Customer experience
Lock Your Roll
HideApp
In-app purchases
Lock Your Roll
- Full Access7 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Yearly subscription7 Days trial$8.491 Year
- Una tantum$19.99
HideApp
- Free BonusFree
- 5 items$0.99
- Unlimited$4.99
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