DarkMatter Vault vs Vaultora

DarkMatter Vault is a private, local place for media, files, documents and links worth keeping, separate from the camera roll and organized for later. Some things deserve their own space. Personal videos, important documents, audio, archives, notes and saved links can live together in one dedicated vault on your device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - App Lock with a PIN or passphrase before the vault opens - Optional biometric unlock with Face ID or Touch ID for convenience - Optional Vault Encryption for saved files and sensitive details on your device SAVE AND ORGANIZE - Import from Files and Photos, or save a link - Keep videos, audio, images, documents, archives and links together - Star, rename, add notes, filter by type and jump between months - See sizes, sources and a storage summary at a glance VIEW WHAT YOU SAVED - In-app previews for video, audio, images, PDF, text, Markdown, JSON, ZIP and Office or spreadsheet files - Native preview and share as a fallback for other formats LOCAL-FIRST WITH ENCRYPTED BACKUP - Saved items live in the app's local vault on your device - Create an encrypted backup and restore your whole vault on another device - You choose where the backup file goes - Only you know the backup password YOUR ARCHIVE, YOUR CONTROL - You decide what to save and import - DarkMatter Vault does not host, index, curate, recommend or provide content - You remain responsible for the content you choose to keep App Lock, Vault Encryption and Backup & Restore are local device features. Some links you choose to save may be processed to prepare previews or metadata for features you request. Note: a forgotten backup password cannot be recovered.

Vaultora is an encrypted recording vault for people who want to record discreetly – material they are entitled to record. Audio, video and photo series go straight into a vault, encrypted file by file, and stay on this iPhone. No cloud, no accounts, no analytics. The limits first, because they are the product: The vault is excluded from iCloud backup; a .vaultora archive is the only way to back it up. If you lose the phone, the recordings are gone. If you forget your PIN, only the optional recovery passphrase you wrote down yourself can help – there is no master key and no support route that can open the vault. What nobody can recover for you, nobody can open against you. TWO VAULTS, TWO PINS Both vaults are created at setup. One entry field; the PIN decides which vault opens. Wrong entries are delayed exponentially, with no counter, and the delay survives a restart. Face ID or Touch ID optional for one vault. RECORD BEHIND A QUIET SCREEN While a recording runs, the display shows a black screen, a wallpaper or a plain view of your choice, dimmed if you like. This concerns Vaultora's own interface only: the iOS indicators for camera and microphone stay visible, always. Audio in segments, video with preview, photo series at intervals – everything is encrypted before it touches storage; plaintext is never cached. BROWSE, PLAY, EDIT Encrypted thumbnails, folders, playback straight from the vault, trim and split without altering the original. Scan documents, import media from Files. EXPORT AND BACKUP Single recordings via the share sheet or Files. The whole vault as a .vaultora archive with its own passphrase – that is your backup, and it opens on a new phone too. Wi-Fi transfer to your own computer, only on the addresses shown, encrypted. RECOVERY PASSPHRASE (NEW) For each vault you can have a ten-word passphrase generated. It is shown once and stored nowhere. With it, "Forgot PIN?" opens exactly that vault and you choose a new PIN. Without it, a forgotten PIN is final. INTRUSION LOG (OPTIONAL) After several failed attempts Vaultora can take one photo with the front camera and store it with a timestamp, so you can see who was holding the phone. PURCHASE Vaultora is bought once and is complete at that price: both vaults, recording, playback, export and import. One optional purchase, "Vaultora Pro", removes the limit of fifteen items per vault and adds Wi-Fi upload, alternate app icons and Apple Watch control. No subscriptions. LEGAL Vaultora is not marketed, described or designed as a tool for secretly recording other people. The app shows a legal notice at first launch and before the first audio recording. Whether a recording is lawful is your responsibility. Privacy: Vaultora collects no data. Nothing leaves the device unless you export it yourself.