A scan of your passport. The tenancy agreement. Last year's tax return. You know exactly which ones they are, because you hesitate before you attach them.
And yet they are already somewhere. They have to live in some folder, and every folder I had was a folder that syncs.
Not one of those is a bad product. Every one of them is somewhere else, run by someone else, reachable by someone else. I wanted one place that was not.
I never built anywhere else for it to go — so there is nothing out there to break into, and nothing of yours for me to lose.
What it is, and why it behaves the way it does.
Documents, photos, video and passwords sit under the same encryption and the same four keys. The tab is the only difference between them. That is the whole reason a passport scan can live in here at all.
Screens show sample data, not a real vault.
Everything you keep goes in one place. Four different things open it, and none of them ranks above the rest — three exist for the day you cannot remember the one you chose.
None of them shows up in a feature list. All three are the reason it behaves the way it does.
Only the outer layer is redone. Nothing inside is re-encrypted, so changing it is instant no matter how much you keep.
Because no copy exists. The wrong key simply fails to open it — there is no check that could return true, and nothing to steal.
If you could search it, you could guess it: type a few characters, see how many entries survive. That was worth giving up.
~/Library/Application Support/Vault/. Nowhere else.The app is not signed, so macOS will stop you the first time.
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and press Open Anyway. You only have to do it once. Touch ID is switched off in this build for the same reason — signing costs $99 a year and I have not paid it yet.
Built in conversation with Claude over three days. How it behaves came from using it. How it is built came from the conversation.