Sealed and Hide it Pro, side by side

Disclosure. Sealed is made by Loopware LLC. We read public pages only, and did not install Hide it Pro or contact its maker. Where it is ahead, this page says so.

How we compared them

Hide it Pro is sold by Anuj Tenani and was first released on 25 May 2012 (store record). On 13 November 2026 we read its listing, its store page, its home page and its privacy policy. We found no help center, so on the questions that matter most after a mistake (a forgotten PIN, a lost phone, a deleted app) the table often says what its pages leave out. Prices are US prices. Prices are shown in US dollars and may vary by country.

Side by side

Where Hide it Pro is ahead

• Android and Mac. Its site lists Android phones and Macs as well as iPhone and iPad (home page).
• More of it is free. The site calls it a free app, and the store page lists only two purchases (store page).
• Older iPhones. It asks for iOS 15.6 (store record).
• Fourteen years on the store. It was first released in 2012 (store record).
• Extras. The site lists a chat feature for sending photos and a browser with ad blocking (home page).

Three questions to ask before you choose

The questions to ask any photo vault apply here, but three decide most cases.

1. If I forget my PIN, what brings the vault back? With Hide it Pro, the store page sells a reset, and its pages do not say how it works (store page). During setup Sealed gives you a recovery key: a long code of letters and numbers, in groups, that can bring your vault back. Our guide to a forgotten vault password walks through both kinds of answer.
2. If I lose the phone, where is the copy? The site says your data never leaves your device, and the listing offers cloud storage without naming it (home page, listing). Ask the maker which one applies to you. You can restore your vault on a new iPhone from your backup, with your recovery key.
3. If I delete the app, what goes with it? Neither page says. Read what deleting a vault app does before you test it. If you delete Sealed from an iPhone while iCloud Backup is off, the vault on that iPhone is deleted with it.

Where Sealed helps, and where it doesn’t

It helps if you want the cipher named and the backup encrypted before it leaves the phone. Sealed encrypts every file with AES-256-GCM before it is saved. Files, names, notes and record fields are encrypted on your iPhone before they are uploaded, so iCloud receives only ciphertext.

It helps if a forgotten passcode should have a written way back that you hold. On the lock screen, Forgot passcode? asks for your recovery key, and once the key checks out you choose a new passcode. Because your key never reaches us, we cannot recover your vault or reset your passcode for you.

It helps if you would rather the app carried no ad code at all. Sealed contains no analytics or tracking SDKs, and it collects no data.

It doesn’t follow you to an Android phone or a Mac. Sealed runs on iPhone and iPad.

It doesn’t give you as much for nothing. On the free plan you can add photos. Videos, documents, notes and records need Sealed Pro.

It doesn’t reset a passcode for you without the recovery key. Without the recovery key the passcode can’t be reset, not by you and not by us, and the reset screen says so.

It doesn’t prove anything about Hide it Pro: this is a reading of both apps’ public words, not a test. Sealed is made by Loopware LLC.