Sealed Pro: three plans, one set of features

The three plans

All three plans unlock the same things. The only difference is how you pay.

Prices are shown in US dollars and may vary by country.

Which plan fits

• You want to try it first. Start the Yearly trial. If you allow notifications, Sealed reminds you two days before a free trial ends.
• You need it for a short job, such as sorting an old camera roll. Monthly lets you stop after a month or two.
• You plan to keep a vault for years. Lifetime has nothing to renew. Sealed Pro Lifetime costs $79.99, paid once, with no subscription and nothing to renew.

The subscription or one-time purchase guide goes through the same choice across vault apps.

What Pro adds

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.

Sealed Pro adds privacy tools including the decoy vault, a duress code, break-in photos, Dual Lock, Location Lock, Maximum Security, locked stacks and seven lock screens.

A few examples of what that means day to day:

• Space on your iPhone. Space Saver keeps originals in your encrypted backup. Space Saver keeps a thumbnail on the iPhone, takes a file off it only after its iCloud copy is confirmed, and downloads the file when you open it.
• Things besides photos. Videos, scans, notes and records such as cards and passwords. Records keep logins, 2FA codes, credit cards, bank accounts, IDs and passports, Wi-Fi networks, recovery codes, license keys, contacts and custom fields.
• A second line of defence. A decoy vault, break-in photos and lock screen styles.

What stays free

Free for everyone: encrypted iCloud backup, 100 photos, Face ID or Touch ID and a passcode, the Security Checkup, Find Private Photos, the recovery key and key guardians, and viewing and exporting.

Pro never holds your photos back. Viewing and exporting your own photos is always free. Only taking files off your iPhone is part of Sealed Pro: bringing files back from iCloud never is, even if your plan ends.

Buying, restoring and cancelling

1. Buy. Open Settings in Sealed. In Sealed’s Settings, the Subscription section has Get Sealed Pro, Manage Subscription and Restore Purchases.
2. Restore on a new iPhone. Settings has a Restore Purchases button under Subscription, for a purchase made with the same Apple Account.
3. Cancel a subscription. You can manage or cancel a subscription at any time in Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions.

There is no Sealed login to remember. Sealed has no account, so there is nothing to sign up for.

If a plan ends

When a subscription ends, the vault stays where it is.

• Viewing and exporting your own photos is always free.
• If your Sealed Pro plan ends, backup keeps running.
• Only taking files off your iPhone is part of Sealed Pro: bringing files back from iCloud never is, even if your plan ends.

What you lose is the ability to add more than the free plan allows, and the Pro tools themselves. On the free plan you can add photos. Videos, documents, notes and records need Sealed Pro.

Where Sealed helps, and where it doesn’t

It helps by keeping the same encryption, backup and recovery key on every plan, free included. Your backup is sealed with your random vault key, not with your passcode, so a short passcode doesn’t make the backup easier to open.

It doesn’t do these things:

• Unlock Pro on another person’s Apple Account. A plan belongs to the account that bought it. Settings has a Restore Purchases button under Subscription, for a purchase made with the same Apple Account.
• Add videos or documents after a plan ends. On the free plan you can add photos. Videos, documents, notes and records need Sealed Pro.
• Make the free plan worse to push an upgrade. The free plan includes passcode and Face ID lock, the recovery key, Recently Deleted, encrypted iCloud backup, stacks, the photo editor, the private browser and the USB drop box.