Frequently asked questions

It is finished and going through Apple's review; no date is promised. Follow what's new.

An iPhone app that keeps photos, videos and documents encrypted behind a pattern or passphrase only you know. No account, no cloud, no analytics. Read more: How StrongRoom works

Open the app, choose a pattern or passphrase, write down the 12-word Recovery Phrase it shows once, and add your first items. It takes a few minutes.

Yes. The free app has one Vault that holds up to 10 items in total. Pro adds unlimited items, more than one Vault and the Duress Vault. Read more: Free to use. Pay only for more room.

Not in 1.0. It is for iPhone.

English, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Dutch, Russian and Turkish.

No. It collects nothing, and its App Store privacy label will say Data Not Collected. Read more: No account, no cloud, no analytics

No.

The app makes no network connections of its own. Only Apple's own purchase service is used if you buy Pro.

No. We hold no keys and receive no data.

Yes: AES-256-GCM, with a separate key for each item. Read more: Encryption you do not have to manage

Not yet. We will say so when one has.

No app is immune. Read the limits. Read more: What StrongRoom does not protect against

Tap "Forgot?" and use your Recovery Phrase, or your Recovery PIN if you set one. Read more: Getting back in: Recovery Phrase and Recovery PIN

Then nobody can open that Vault. We keep no copy.

Without an Export Package your data is gone. With one, restore on a new iPhone with the Recovery Phrase. Read more: Export Package: your Vault as one encrypted file

No, by design. Its data is excluded from iCloud and computer backups.

Yes. Make an Export Package first.

It is weaker than the phrase. It works only on your phone and only from "Forgot?".

With Pro, yes, up to 16, each with its own credential and no list of them. The free app has one Vault. (Pro) Read more: Separate Vaults, and no list of them

An empty Vault, the same as a real Vault with nothing in it. This works in the free app too.

A Vault that erases all your others when opened. It is a Pro feature (it needs a second Vault to erase) and cannot be undone. Read more: Duress Vault

Yes; they go into the Vault and never into your photo library. Read more: A camera that keeps the photo out of your photo library

Yes. Tap the add button and choose Scan a document. Apple's document scanner captures the pages, and StrongRoom saves them as one encrypted PDF in the Vault, never in Photos or the camera roll. It is free, counts as one Item toward the free limit of 10, works on iPhone only and needs the iPhone's camera. Quality depends on the lighting and on Apple's scanner. Read more: Import and scan photos, videos and files

Yes, one level deep. Not nested. Read more: Folders, search and filters

No, on purpose.

No.

Make a Share Package and send the key separately. Read more: Share Package: send items without sending them in the clear

You can set an open count and expiry, but they are enforced only on the recipient's phone and can be bypassed.

No.

Yearly $19.99 and monthly $4.99, each with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, and lifetime $39.99 once. Prices vary by country.

No. You can still open, export and delete everything, and any extra Vaults you made stay.