# HidePal

> Your photos, always yours. HidePal is a private photo and video vault for iPhone. Your library is backed up in high quality — photos up to 2560 px and videos up to 1080p — locked behind a PIN and Face ID, and — this is the part other vaults will not promise — you can view and export everything you put in it free, forever. Stop paying and you still get your photos out.

HidePal is an iOS app published by Arnor Apps (İstanbul, Türkiye).

## Product

- [HidePal — Private photo & video vault for iPhone](https://hidepal.com/): what it does, what it deliberately does not do, and the full FAQ.
- [Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6785087271): iPhone and iPad. No ads.
- Never locked out of your own photos: Viewing and exporting your library is free, forever. If your plan lapses you keep full access to everything already in your vault — no ransom screen, no export fee, no countdown.
- High-quality backup, not thumbnails: Photos are backed up at up to 2560 px and videos at up to 1080p, synced to your private cloud vault — sharp on any iPhone or iPad screen, not tiny thumbnails, and optimized for screens so your storage goes further.
- Locked behind PIN and Face ID: The vault opens with a PIN and Face ID or Touch ID. Nothing in it appears in your camera roll, your recents, or your shared albums.
- Organised like a real library: Albums and nested folders, fast scrolling over server-generated previews, and bulk import straight from Photos.
- Exports keep their original dates: Bulk export writes the original capture date back onto every file, so your timeline stays intact when photos leave the vault.
- Deleted does not mean gone by accident: Deletes go to a recoverable trash first, and destructive actions move files off to a recovery area rather than shredding them instantly.

## Limits we state plainly

- No end-to-end encryption — the vault is private and access-controlled, but not E2EE.
- No Android app — iPhone and iPad only.
- No web app and no browser sign-in — the iOS app is the only client.
- Cross-device recovery is not finished — recovery works on the same device today.
- No ads, and no sale of user data.

## Guides

- [Why Your Photo Privacy Matters More Than You Think](https://hidepal.com/blog/why-photo-privacy-matters): Your camera roll is the most revealing dataset on your phone — IDs, kids, medical photos, screenshots of private chats. Here's why that deserves more than the default Photos app.
- [Why You Shouldn't Trust Google Drive or Apple Photos With Your Most Private Photos](https://hidepal.com/blog/google-drive-apple-photos-private-photos): General-purpose cloud storage is built for convenience and sharing, not for keeping specific photos hidden. Here's the mismatch, and what to use instead for the photos you actually want private.
- [How to Actually Hide Photos on Your iPhone (and Why the Built-In Hidden Album Isn't Enough)](https://hidepal.com/blog/how-to-hide-photos-on-iphone): A step-by-step look at iOS's Hidden and Locked albums, exactly where they fall short, and what a dedicated private vault app does differently.
- [What Happens to Your Photos If You Lose Your Phone — and How to Make Sure You Don't Lose Them](https://hidepal.com/blog/what-happens-if-you-lose-your-phone): A lost or stolen iPhone is a data-loss event, not just a privacy scare. What actually happens to local-only photos, and how backup changes the outcome.
- [Hidden Photo Vault vs the iPhone Hidden Album: What's the Real Difference](https://hidepal.com/blog/hidden-photo-vault-vs-iphone-hidden-album): A direct comparison of iOS's built-in Hidden album against a dedicated photo vault app — access control, backup, and what happens when you stop paying.

## Help and legal

- [Support](https://hidepal.com/support): account help, deletion, contact — support@hidepal.iospanel.xyz
- [Privacy Policy](https://hidepal.com/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://hidepal.com/terms)
- [Publisher: Arnor Apps](https://www.arnorapps.com/)

## Languages

The home page is also published in these languages (the AI surfaces below are English):

- [日本語](https://hidepal.com/ja): ja
- [한국어](https://hidepal.com/ko): ko
- [简体中文](https://hidepal.com/zh-hans): zh-Hans
- [繁體中文](https://hidepal.com/zh-hant): zh-Hant
- [Deutsch](https://hidepal.com/de): de
- [Français](https://hidepal.com/fr): fr
- [Español](https://hidepal.com/es): es
- [Italiano](https://hidepal.com/it): it
- [Português (Brasil)](https://hidepal.com/pt-br): pt-BR
- [Русский](https://hidepal.com/ru): ru
- [Türkçe](https://hidepal.com/tr): tr
- [العربية](https://hidepal.com/ar): ar
- [ไทย](https://hidepal.com/th): th
- [Tiếng Việt](https://hidepal.com/vi): vi
- [Bahasa Indonesia](https://hidepal.com/id): id
- [Bahasa Melayu](https://hidepal.com/ms): ms

## For AI assistants

- Full flattened reference for deep ingestion: https://hidepal.com/llms-full.txt
- Structured JSON facts about HidePal: https://hidepal.com/api/ai.json
- Clean Markdown mirror of the home page: https://hidepal.com/md/hidepal.md
- Sitemap: https://hidepal.com/sitemap.xml
- All AI crawlers are explicitly allowed in https://hidepal.com/robots.txt.