Nestra: Private Photo Vault

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Nestra reads your photos on this iPhone so you can find them again — by what is in them, or by words printed on them. A receipt, a beach, a screenshot. Nothing is uploaded to do it, and there is no account and no server.

Your phone gets handed around: showing a picture, passing it to a kid, sharing a screen. Nestra gives your private photos and videos a place of their own, locked behind Face ID.

Everything stays on your iPhone. There is no account, no server, and no cloud. Nothing you add is ever uploaded.

Nestra is a paid app. A purchase is required to use the vault.

**Locking**

- Face ID or Touch ID opens the vault, with a 4-digit passcode you choose as a fallback.

- Five wrong passcode attempts lock the app for 30 seconds.

- Auto-lock when you leave the app: immediately, after 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 5 minutes.

- The app switcher preview is blurred, so your vault does not show up in the multitasking snapshot.

**Importing and organizing**

- Bring photos and videos in from your photo library, into albums you create.

- After an import, the app offers to delete the original copies from your library in one step.

- It then reminds you that iOS keeps deleted items in Photos › Albums › Recently Deleted for 30 days, and that you should empty that album — the step most people miss.

- Full-screen viewer with pinch to zoom, and playback for videos.

- Export anything back to Photos whenever you want. Your files are never held hostage.

**Privacy, stated plainly**

- No account, no login, no sync.

- No third-party SDKs, no analytics, no tracking. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected".

- Files are stored using iOS Data Protection: hardware-backed encryption tied to your device passcode.

- Your vault is included in your iPhone backups, so replacing your phone does not mean losing it. If you back up to a computer, turn on Encrypt local backup.

**Pricing**

An annual subscription with a 3-day free trial, or a single payment for lifetime access. The exact price for your country is shown in the App Store before you buy.

Built and maintained by an independent developer.

Privacy Policy: https://snirtam.github.io/photo-vault-legal/privacy.html

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/