Is Vaulty Safe?

Yes. Vaulty is designed to keep your private media hidden and out of sight, while giving you full control over your files.

Vaulty uses a PIN lock and keeps your photos and videos out of your gallery, so they don’t show up when someone else picks up your phone. It’s built for privacy, without compromising speed or usability.

🔐 How Vaulty Protects Your Files

When you hide a file in Vaulty:

  • Vaulty moves the file into its own folder on your phone (usually Documents/Vaulty/data) and renames it as a .vdata file, so it no longer shows up in your gallery.
  • Vaulty also renames the file and, for photos and other non-video files, adds a small marker so they can’t be opened or viewed normally. This isn’t encryption, and it’s easy to undo for someone who knows how.
  • Someone who connects your phone to a computer or uses a file manager app can still find the Vaulty folder, so the safest protection is keeping your phone itself locked and secure.

🎬 Watching Videos

Vaulty plays videos in its own built-in player when Use Vaulty’s Player is turned on in Vaulty’s settings. If you turn this setting off, Vaulty uses an outside video player instead:

Videos open in another app. That app may show them in its own recent apps, in picture-in-picture, or when your screen turns on if your phone has no screen lock.

To keep videos inside Vaulty, keep Use Vaulty’s Player turned on.

🧱 Your Files Stay on Your Device

Your hidden files are stored locally on your device. The Vaulty app can access them to display and manage your vaults, but your hidden files are never sent to Vaulty’s servers. This means:

  • Vaulty’s creators can’t see or access your content
  • Vaulty works even when you’re offline
  • Your files stay on your phone and, if you turn on backup, in your own Google Drive. The makers of Vaulty can’t see them.

🔑 Add Extra Protection with Multiple Vaults

Vaulty supports multiple vaults, each with its own password. This lets you:

  • Separate different types of content
  • Share your device without sharing everything
  • Create decoy vaults

☁️ Backup Is Optional and Goes to Your Own Google Drive

If you choose to enable Vaulty’s free online backup, your files are synced to your own Google Drive account, not to Vaulty’s servers.

  • Anyone who can sign in to your Google account can open this folder, so keep that account to yourself and turn on 2-Step Verification.
  • Files are stored in a normal folder on your Drive (My Drive > appdata > Vaulty) in Vaulty’s .vdata format, so you can see them but can’t open them in Drive
  • The Vaulty app handles syncing between devices if you’re signed in to the same Drive account

Your backup goes to a Vaulty folder in your own Google Drive, not to Squid Tooth’s servers. Vaulty’s Drive permission only lets the app on your phone reach the files Vaulty created there, not the rest of your Drive, and Squid Tooth can’t see your Drive.

🧠 Your Privacy, Your Responsibility

Because Vaulty never stores your files on its servers, you are responsible for keeping them backed up or transferred when switching devices.

Learn how Vaulty works and how to protect your content here:
👉 How Vaulty Works

✅ Summary: Why Vaulty Is Safe

  • Files are removed from your gallery and made unreadable by other apps
  • You can lock vaults with separate passwords
  • Your photos and videos are never uploaded to Vaulty’s servers
  • Optional backups use your own Google Drive
  • You stay in control of your data and your privacy

The app collects limited usage and device information, such as app events and device identifiers, through Google’s Firebase analytics and our subscription provider. See our Privacy Policy.