Encamera Encrypted Photo Vault

This has been necessary for such a long time, but all one could find prior to this app were inferior, half-baked and often misleading solutions. Encamera seems to address most of my concerns and it apparently has an active development and community support behind it. Open source makes it actually trustworthy. UPDATE: Not so great after all. For a privacy focused app the only acceptable option is "Data not collected". Instead they tag you with Revenue Cat ID?! The welcome screen gives off really bad vibes - Cheap "Kodak" type shots plastered together... kitsch vaguely reminiscent of countless disreputable apps. Thumbnails are blurry. It keeps asking for premium, even though I have purchased a Lifetime subscription. Just gives me the "ick". Until there is absolutely zero telemetry this app simply cannot be taken seriously. No go for me.

I LOVE this app, but there’s one thing I notice that makes it less than perfect for me. I really dislike that whenever I go to a photo album I don’t open often, individual photos take forever to download from iCloud before populating. The entire album will load just fine after opening, but if I click on a specific photo it takes super long to load the photo. Is there a way to fix that?

I’m only a few days into using this app after trying to find an alternative app to KeepSafe which is not Zero Knowledge storage. I tired a bunch of other Zero Knowledge apps and they all had problems or didn’t fit my needs. I just want a simple secure photo vault and the fact that this uses my own iCloud storage is perfect. Everything is encrypted, and I hold the keys and the vault. The app developer has been active and is releasing new features which is important. There was another app similar to this that I liked but there were no updates in over a year. I also see they post regularly on Reddit so I don’t feel this will go stale.