Most of us end up with a quiet pile of sensitive documents on our phones: ID and passport photos, tenancy or work contracts, tax paperwork, two-factor backup codes. They live in the camera roll, in Notes, or forwarded to our own email — none of which were built to guard them.
Why the usual spots are risky
The camera roll syncs to the cloud and shows up whenever someone scrolls your photos. Notes and email put plaintext copies in services you don't fully control, often searchable and synced across devices. A single shoulder-surf, a shared screen, or a breached account can expose the exact documents you most wanted kept quiet.
How Kistvault handles it
- A real vault for documents, not just photos. Import IDs, PDFs, scans and codes; each is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before it touches storage.
- Off the camera roll, off the cloud. The vault is separate from your Photos library and never synced anywhere by Kistvault.
- Only you can open it. The key is derived from your password or pattern via Argon2id; there's no account and no server that could be asked for it.
- Recoverable. If you forget your credential, your Recovery Kit still opens the vault — so "kept safe" never tips into "locked out".
The point: the documents you can least afford to lose or leak deserve a place built for exactly that.