SV - Private Photo Vault PRO

I never review apps but lemme tell you, once I learned it imports the Live Photos, where you Literally hold down on the photos and it reacts like it should be (because other apps fail to accomplish this) , I had to come and immediately review this app. You can import thousands of views and pictures all at once and I believe before they released even more premium features I paid for the lifetime premium features. So I’m grandfathered in. That’s how long I’ve had this app. I’m writing this review at 5:49am on may 8th 2023. Such a good app. Not to mention they have a “cloud” as well. Basically. So all of your data is stored within your iCloud backup through the app too if that makes sense. Idk. It’s weird.

I was using the Video Safe 2 app which was good for many years until it wasn’t. I saw this app had the most reviews and they were positive. I think this company is based out of Las Vegas. The features are great and the app works great. I exported the photo via usb from old app and transfered photos via a usb to lightning cable to my iPhone. It worked great. There are some really great features like if you put the phone screen down you can have it automatically open the music app for example. There is a decoy so you can put another passcode to unlock to a decoy with some photos that aren’t private. This app has a yearly charge but I think it’s worth it so the developer of this app will keep working on it for years to come and improve it. Oh and I saw this app has been around since 2011 which is good. You want to go with an app that will be around for a long time. Next I would like there to be a disguise for the app like if I open it then it appears to be a calculator etc. I think i read they are working on that.

I have been using this app for years, and it remains the best of what's out there. I buy and test-drive premium versions of all the halfway decent private photo organizers in the App Store... I have yet to find one to replace Photo Vault. I believe it has the best combination of security, ease-of-use, user interface, and features. Also, the developers haven't abandoned this app since 2011, so the forecast on future updates always looks promising. While I have always come back to Photo Vault Pro as my main photo organizer, there is ONE FEATURE in particular that it is SORELY MISSING... SUB-FOLDERS!! A few competitor photos apps do have this ability, and I found it so useful that I was nearly converted. This feature makes it possible to create folders within folders, move folders around at will, and nest albums deep within multiple parent folders if desired. I found this extremely useful. It allows for an album structure that is so much cleaner, much more organized, and much easier to navigate. Photo Vault's current album structure requires you to scroll through all your individual albums before reaching the bottom of a long list. This can be fairly annoying, and the more albums you have the more annoying it gets. Newly created albums are always placed at the bottom of this long list, and manually moving an album up through the long line is frustrating. For me, the lack of sub-folders is the one feature keeping this 'truly great app' from becoming a 'truly perfect app'