Comparison

Lock Your Roll vs HideApp

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Lock photos directly from camera roll
  • Adjustable blur intensity
  • Offline functionality
  • Face ID app lock
  • OCR text extraction
  • QR code reading
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • On-device encryption
  • Unlimited vaults
  • Hide photos and videos
  • Encrypt documents
  • 256-bit encryption
  • PIN and Biometric login
  • Customizable encryption settings
Read full description

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

Screenshots

Lock Your Roll4 screens
HideApp4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lock Your Roll versus HideApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock Your RollHideApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeralbertopasca.itMAURICE LEUNG PIN

Customer experience

Lock Your Roll

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HideApp

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Lock Your Roll

Subscriptions2
  • Full Access7 Days trial$1.491 Month
  • Yearly subscription7 Days trial$8.491 Year
One-time1
  • Una tantum$19.99
3 purchases

HideApp

One-time3
  • Free BonusFree
  • 5 items$0.99
  • Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Lock Your Roll free?
Lock Your Roll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HideApp free?
HideApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lock Your Roll or HideApp have ads?
Neither Lock Your Roll nor HideApp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lock Your Roll or HideApp?
Lock Your Roll ships an update every 14 months, and HideApp every 3 weeks. Most recently, Lock Your Roll was updated on June 5, 2026 and HideApp on June 7, 2026.

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