Sealed and Vaulty, side by side

Disclosure. Sealed is made by Loopware LLC. We read Vaulty’s public pages and did not install it. Where it is ahead, a section below says so.

Whose pages we read

Vaulty is sold by MAPPVATE YAZILIM LIMITED SIRKETI and was first released on 23 August 2022 (store record). Its privacy policy is a PDF linked from its store page, and its terms are a PDF on the maker’s site. We read all of them on 13 November 2026. Prices on this page are US prices. Prices are shown in US dollars and may vary by country.

Side by side

Where Vaulty is ahead

• Nothing to write down. Its backup comes back when you sign in on another device (Vaulty page). With Sealed you keep a recovery key instead. On a fresh install, the first screen has a Restore a backup button, you enter the recovery key you saved, and your files are decrypted only on that iPhone.
• A cheaper way to start. Its Monthly Premium is $4.99 and Weekly Premium $1.99 (store page). Sealed Pro Monthly costs $12.99 a month, with no free trial.
• More languages. It lists 20 (store record), against Sealed’s 18.
• Older iPhones. It asks for iOS 15.2 (store record). Sealed needs iOS 17.0 or later.

Sign-in backup and key backup, in plain terms

A backup you reach by signing in is easy to get back: the service hands your files to whoever passes its sign-in. The same ease cuts the other way. Anyone who gets past that sign-in can reach the files, and so can the service itself, unless the files were encrypted with a key it does not hold. Vaulty’s pages do not say they are (privacy policy).

Sealed works the other way round. Files, names, notes and record fields are encrypted on your iPhone before they are uploaded, so iCloud receives only ciphertext. Sealed can’t see or recover your files. The price is the key you must keep, and our backup and restore page shows what a restore asks for. If you would rather write the key down well, the recovery key checklist walks through it.

What “linked to you” means on a privacy label

On an App Store privacy label, the developer says which data it collects and whether that data is tied to who you are. Vaulty’s label puts Photos or Videos, Email Address and Device ID under data linked to you (store page). Its policy adds RevenueCat for payments, and Mixpanel and Firebase Analytics for measuring use (privacy policy). None of that proves anyone looks at your photos. It does mean the developer says it collects them and ties them to your identity. Our table of vault privacy labels shows how other vaults fill in the same form.

Sealed’s side is short. Sealed contains no analytics or tracking SDKs, and it collects no data. Your vault key never reaches us.

Where Sealed helps, and where it doesn’t

It helps if you would rather not hand over an email and a password to keep photos. Sealed has no account, so there is nothing to sign up for. Read are photo vault apps safe? for what to check in any app.

It helps if the cloud copy should be unreadable to the company that stores it. Files, names, notes and record fields are encrypted on your iPhone before they are uploaded, so iCloud receives only ciphertext.

It helps if you want no ad networks in a photo vault. Sealed has no ads and no tracking. Sealed contains no analytics or tracking SDKs, and it collects no data.

It doesn’t bring your vault back from a sign-in alone. The recovery key is the only way to decrypt an iCloud backup on a new iPhone. See moving a vault to a new iPhone.

It doesn’t come in as many languages: it has 18.

It doesn’t vouch for Vaulty either way. We read its policies and store page, and ran nothing. Sealed is made by Loopware LLC.