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Sealed and Encamera, side by side

Both shoot photos straight into an encrypted vault with no account, from the app or the Lock Screen, and both hand you a written key for a new phone. Encamera lists the camera among its basic features and keeps cloud storage for Premium. On iOS 18, the Lock Screen camera seals photos into your vault without unlocking, and it is part of Sealed Pro. Encrypted iCloud backup is free. Sealed contains no analytics or tracking SDKs, and it collects no data. Encamera’s privacy policy describes anonymous usage analytics.

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Disclosure. Sealed is made by Loopware LLC. This is a reading of public pages, not a test: we did not run Encamera. Its lead over Sealed has a section of its own.

Two camera-first vaults

Encamera, sold by Encamera LLC since 11 November 2022, is built around a camera that writes encrypted files and never touches your photo library (store record). Sealed has the same idea in its private camera. The private camera captures photos and videos directly into your encrypted vault. So this page starts with the camera and works outwards. We read Encamera’s pages on 13 November 2026. Prices are shown in US dollars and may vary by country.

Side by side

Sealed (facts checked 13 Nov 2026) Encamera (source, read 13 Nov 2026)
In-app camera. The private camera shoots straight into the vault. The private camera is part of Sealed Pro. Takes photos and videos inside the app without saving them to the photo library, as a basic feature. Listing.
From the Lock Screen. On iOS 18, the Lock Screen camera seals photos into your vault without unlocking, and it is part of Sealed Pro. Each Lock Screen camera photo is encrypted before it is written, never goes to Photos, and appears in the vault the next time you unlock it. A quick capture widget takes encrypted photos from the Lock Screen. Listing and privacy policy.
Account. Sealed has no account, so there is nothing to sign up for. None, and no email. The privacy policy says the app can be used completely anonymously. Privacy policy.
Cipher. Sealed encrypts every file with AES-256-GCM before it is saved. The privacy policy says AES-256 with keys in the device Keychain. A blog post from June 2026 says XChaCha20-Poly1305, with the key made by Argon2 from a phrase. The two pages name different ciphers. Privacy policy and blog post.
The key you keep. During setup Sealed gives you a recovery key: a long code of letters and numbers, in groups, that can bring your vault back. Because your key never reaches us, we cannot recover your vault or reset your passcode for you. A ten-word key phrase recreates the key on a new phone, and without it nobody can regenerate the key. An optional setting also copies the key to iCloud Keychain. Blog post.
Backup. Backup goes to your own iCloud account, not to a server of ours. Encrypted iCloud backup is free. Files stay on the phone by default. Storage in your own iCloud, through CloudKit, is a Premium feature. Privacy policy.
Analytics. Sealed contains no analytics or tracking SDKs, and it collects no data. An anonymous user ID and anonymous usage data through Piwik, which it hosts itself. The privacy label lists usage data, not linked to you, for analytics. Privacy policy and store page.
Open code. The app’s own code is not public, and no outside audit has been published. What is open is the reader for the open copy. The reader is open source and travels inside every open copy, as a Python script and an offline web page. The privacy policy says the code is open for review. Its GitHub project says the open part is the file handling. Privacy policy and EncameraCore.
Plans. Sealed Pro Yearly costs $39.99 a year, and new subscribers get a 7-day free trial. Sealed Pro Monthly costs $12.99 a month, with no free trial. Sealed Pro Lifetime costs $79.99, paid once, with no subscription and nothing to renew. Weekly, monthly and yearly plans (the year with a 7-day trial), from $1.99 a week to $19.99 a year on the store page, plus two lifetime options. The store lists Lifetime at $99.99; a 2025 blog post gave $149.99. Store page and blog post.
Devices. Sealed needs iOS 17.0 or later. iPhone and iPad with iOS 17.0 or later, and Apple Vision. Store page.

Where Encamera is ahead

  • The camera is free. The listing puts the private camera and the widget among its basic features (listing). The private camera is part of Sealed Pro.
  • Part of its code is public. Anyone can read the file-handling code on GitHub (EncameraCore).
  • Lower subscription prices. Its store page lists 12 months at $19.99 (store page). Sealed Pro Yearly costs $39.99 a year, and new subscribers get a 7-day free trial.

A phrase, a key, and where each one lives

Both apps rest on a written code to bring an encrypted vault back on a new phone. Encamera’s code is ten words (blog post). The recovery key is letters and numbers in groups of 5, joined by dashes: 55 or 60 characters, depending on when the vault was made. Encamera also offers to keep the key in iCloud Keychain, which is easier and puts a copy of the key in your Apple Account. Sealed keeps its key on the one phone instead. Your vault key is kept in the iPhone Keychain, on this device only, and it can be read only while the phone is unlocked. If you want a copy that is not on paper, look at a sealed copy of the recovery key, which is locked under a passphrase first.

Where Sealed helps, and where it doesn’t

It helps if a backup should not depend on a paid plan. Encrypted iCloud backup is free. Files, names, notes and record fields are encrypted on your iPhone before they are uploaded, so iCloud receives only ciphertext.

It helps if a vault should collect nothing at all, not even anonymous counts. Sealed contains no analytics or tracking SDKs, and it collects no data. See how Sealed protects your photos, and the questions to ask any vault.

It helps if the camera is one part of a vault that also holds documents, notes and records. Sealed Pro lifts the photo limit and adds, among other things, videos, documents, notes, records, the private camera, voice memos, wireless transfer, Space Saver, the duplicate finder and video trimming. See the private camera.

It doesn’t give you the in-app camera for free. The private camera is part of Sealed Pro.

It doesn’t let you pick, album by album, what goes to iCloud, as Encamera’s listing describes (listing). Backup is on or off for the whole vault. Backup carries your photos, videos and documents, your stacks, your notes and your records.

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