I recently forgot the lockscreen pin to my old iPhone and tried tried to unlock it. However, I had forgotten that I had setup the 10-wrong-entries-and-self-destruct feature and so I lost all of my data. Nothing was ever backed up to iCloud as I don't pay for that feature.<p>With my new phone the easy way would have been to pay for iCloud but I use an app called PhotoSync[0]. When I put my phone to charge, the app will sync all of my photos to my local NAS over SMB. Sure they aren't encrypted but they are hosted locally.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.photosync-app.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.photosync-app.com</a>
I'm sure you'll get customers, but I just don't understand people that go for things like this.<p>So I'm afraid of Apple scanning, and uploading unencrypted files I create on a closed-source (unable to verify anything) OS to a closed-source service I subscribe to. And my solution is to subscribe to a secondary closed-source service to mask my photos from the first service.<p>I'm sure people will rationalize this behavior, but it's just insanity to me.
Here's a similar app that's rated higher and doesn't require a subscription.<p><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-photo-vault-pic-safe/id417571834" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-photo-vault-pic-safe/i...</a><p>What is your selling point over your competitors?<p>EDIT: The app I linked is moving from a "purchase Pro" to a "subscribe to Premium" model, so it may not be a clear winner for new users over your offering.
Hey HN community, I want to introduce to you Photo Vault, we made our project with just 1 thing in mind:<p>To protect your private Photos and Videos .<p>All your data from Photo Vault is always end-to-end encrypted and your media files are never shared with anyone, even with us.<p>As you know many services are trying to add the possibility to scan our private videos and photos, sooner or later, it will be a reality. We think now more than ever, is very important to keep our photos and videos in a safe place.<p>Features in 1.5.0.<p>- Support for video files.
- iPad support.
- Possibility to move media files from one album to another.
- Possibility to import photos and videos in bulk.<p>Our To-Do list is full of amazing cool features that we plan to add in the near future, and we'd love to hear your feedback and ideas of how we can improve our project.
Thank you for your feedback, first of all, I want to mention that our app is ranking lower and have fewer reviews because we are new on the market. Our strengths are that we use true encryption, all the photos and videos saved in our app are really encrypted with the key derivated from your password. We also focus on details, we have developed our product to maximize the best user experience. I think our mass import, is beyond any competitor on the App Store. I want to mention again we don't put a pin to your photos, we encrypt every file.<p>You can be sure that we are focused on values and not on maximizing profit. We decide to go with a subscription model because it helps us to continue working and improving our product. It's not a project that we developed and leave there in App Store.
so, I checked the Apple App Store for its privacy and it has the following:<p>Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:<p>- User Content<p>- Diagnostics<p>Does it comply with Apple’s “mandatory” hashmac on pictures for checking by some other big dictionary of forbidden hash values?