Mavaul vs other vaults
Every photo vault locks. Few are nice to use. Mavaul encrypts with AES-256 on the iPhone, needs no account, and puts its effort into the part you do every day: opening the vault and looking at your photos. Here's how it compares, including where the others win.
Comparisons
Mavaul vs Private Photo Vault The giant: hosted cloud, decoy password, break-in photos. Its privacy label lists tracking.
Mavaul vs Safe Lock A toolbox: seven locks, a hidden camera, notes and PDFs. The listing doesn't say files are encrypted.
Mavaul vs KYMS Encrypts everything from photos to passwords, with ads and tracking. Plays MKV and AVI.
Mavaul vs Keepsafe One of the biggest vaults, with its own cloud and sync. Unnamed encryption, ads on free, and tracking.
Mavaul vs Privault A keypad locker with a second passcode, an erase-all code and 150 video formats. Ads and tracking.
Mavaul vs SPV A PIN vault for photos, passwords and contacts, with a private browser. No encryption named, and tracking.
Mavaul vs Calculator# Two calculators: Calculator# hides almost everything behind one. Mavaul's calculator guards encrypted photos.
Mavaul vs Hide it Pro A fake-crash disguise and an empty-vault code, with only crash data collected. No encryption named.
Mavaul vs Vaultaire Pattern lock, decoy and duress vaults, free iCloud backup, sync. Mavaul wins on viewing and the TV.
Mavaul vs Obscura Security-first: open-source AES-256-GCM, no data collected, separate vaults, no recovery at all.- Mavaul vs the Hidden album Free and already there, but it's still Photos. Fine for vacation scrolling, not a second encrypted store.
How we compare
Competitor facts come from each app's US App Store listing and Apple privacy label, with the date we checked. Every page says where the other app wins. App names and icons belong to their owners. Spot something out of date? hello@mavaul.com. For what Mavaul does on its own terms, see all features, or read the best photo vault apps for iPhone, Fall 2026.