Visual Locker vs Inroll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Visual Locker
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Keep your personal photos and videos in a private vault on iPhone and iPad. Choose the items you want to add and organize them into folders. Photos and videos stay in the app's private storage with Apple's file protection, and your vault catalog is encrypted. Each device keeps its own independent vault. Visual Locker does not sync your media between Apple devices or store your vault on a Visual Locker server. Create a separate six-digit vault passcode or choose a password. You can then add Face ID or Touch ID for convenient access on supported devices. Your device passcode cannot open a vault protected by a separate vault credential directly. Alternatively, choose device unlock using the biometric method or passcode configured on your device. With Visual Locker, you can: β’ Import selected photos and videos privately β’ Organize personal moments into folders β’ Search, sort and filter your private library with Pro β’ View photos and play videos using familiar controls β’ Save items back to Photos whenever you choose β’ Choose whether your vault is included in Apple device backup β’ Choose a vault passcode, password or device unlock at no extra cost Free includes private storage, all access choices, up to 25 items and three folders. A one-time Pro purchase unlocks unlimited items and folders, private on-device search and filters. No subscription. Already purchased Visual Locker Pro on another Apple device? Restore Purchases. IMPORTANT: We cannot recover a forgotten vault passcode or password. And if you delete the app (or lose your phone) you will likely lose anything stored in the vault. Keep another copy of important photos and videos.
Inroll
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Your photos. Your iPhone. That's it. Inroll is a private photo library that lives outside Apple Photos. Photos and videos you add are encrypted on your iPhone and never uploaded by us. There is no account, and no server to upload them to. MOVE OUT OF PHOTOS, SAFELY Pick photos and videos. Inroll copies the originals, encrypts them and reads every byte back to check it. Only then can you remove the originals from Photos. Nothing is deleted automatically, and Inroll tells you plainly that removed items stay in Recently Deleted for up to 30 days. FROM FILES AND OTHER APPS Add photos and videos from Files, or a whole folder with its subfolders. Inroll reads them where they are and encrypts them on the way in, without making an unencrypted copy first. If you move them, Inroll deletes an original only after checking it still matches what Inroll stored. From any other app, use the Share button: Inroll encrypts what you share right away, even while it's locked, and adds it to your library the next time you open it. FEELS LIKE PHOTOS Scroll a familiar grid, zoom into full-resolution photos, play videos and Live Photos, make albums, mark favorites, and search by name, year or album. Search runs on your iPhone. ORIGINALS STAY ORIGINAL HEIC, JPEG, PNG, RAW, Live Photos, HDR and ProRes videos are kept exactly as they are, never re-encoded or compressed. Edits made in Photos come along with the unedited original. PROTECTED BY DESIGN β’ Every photo and video is encrypted with its own key (AES-256-GCM) β’ Unlock with Face ID, or with an Inroll passcode that's separate from your iPhone passcode β’ Keys are protected by the iOS Keychain and never leave your iPhone β’ iOS Data Protection seals the files whenever your iPhone is locked β’ Locks the moment you leave the app and hides in the App Switcher β’ Hides its content while your screen is recorded or mirrored BACKUPS THAT BELONG TO YOU Inroll isn't part of iCloud Backup. Instead, make an encrypted backup as a single file and save it wherever you choose: on your iPhone, an external drive, a Mac, a network drive or a cloud folder in Files. Restore it on a new iPhone with your recovery key. FREE FOR YOUR FIRST 100 Inroll is free for up to 100 photos and videos. Inroll Unlimited, a one-time purchase with no subscription, lets you add as many as you like. Viewing, exporting, backups and restoring are always free. NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS. NO TRACKERS. NO SERVERS. We can't see, access or recover your library. Your recovery key is the only way back in if you lose Face ID access or forget your passcode, so keep it somewhere safe.
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Verdict
Visual Locker and Inroll are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Visual Locker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Inroll sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Visual Locker | Inroll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro β better | iPhone, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HANDLR VENTURES LTD | Donghun Ha |
In-app purchases
Visual Locker
- Visual Locker Pro$14.99
Inroll
- Unlimited for iPhone$2.99
- Unlimited for Apple Vision Pro$9.99





