Hidlet
An encrypted photo vault for iPhone
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Hidlet keeps photos, videos and files in encrypted vaults on your iPhone. Draw a pattern to open one. A different pattern opens a different vault, and nothing lists them. No account, no ads, no tracking. Duress vault and encrypted iCloud backup.
PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: encryption and cryptography tools · 147 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +100% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Privacy
- Security
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Could you build this?
Partial The iPhone UI and encrypted storage are vibe-codeable, but a real version needs security expertise for deniable hidden vaults, duress behavior, and key management that a user cannot verify.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/SwiftUI app using CryptoKit or Apple's Data Protection APIs, with encrypted files in the app sandbox and an encrypted iCloud backup. The hard parts are designing the deniable multi-vault scheme so no vault can be detected, and building a duress mode that holds up against forensic inspection. That requires a security engineer to design and audit the threat model and key derivation, not just to write the code.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 814 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #116 of 815 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hide Photos: Secret Album · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- VaultCube · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Hidewell Photo Vault · ph · 2026-10-31 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Noxium: Private Photo Vault · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Easy Vault · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- VaultIt · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- SwiftLocker · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Sealby · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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