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Noxium: Private Photo Vault

Hidden is not private. Draw a line to open your vault

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An iPhone and iPad app that hides photos, videos and notes in encrypted vaults. Draw a pattern across at least 6 bolts on a 5×5 plate of 25 bolts. Face ID can open the main vault. Everything is encrypted on the device. Keys come from your pattern through Argon2id (libsodium); files are sealed with AES-256-GCM (Apple CryptoKit). Names, dates and places are encrypted too. The pattern is never stored. An encrypted backup goes to your own private iCloud (CloudKit).

PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: password management tools · 92 launches, 18 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Security
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • iOS
  • Privacy
  • Photography

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Could you build this?

Partial The UI, photo handling, and iOS app shell are vibe-codeable, but the security-critical key derivation and encryption design must be correct, and mistakes there cannot be safely shipped without expert review.

What it would actually take: Build a native iOS app in Swift with a pattern-input UI, Face ID via LocalAuthentication, and encrypted file storage in the app sandbox. Key derivation uses Argon2id via libsodium, with file encryption using authenticated AEAD and secure key handling in the Keychain. The hard part is getting the cryptographic design, nonce handling, and key lifecycle right, which needs a security engineer and an independent audit.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #118 of 723 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.

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