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Reliquary

Reliquary

Photos stay on your phone.

They go into an encrypted vault in the app. They do not sync to iCloud or Google Photos unless you send them there.

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Reliquary vault with nine photos shown as redacted, blurred, pixelated, hidden and locked previews.

A camera that stays on your device

The vault does not need an account, and there are no ads. You share a photo only when you choose, with someone you pair in person.

Reliquary vault with nine photos shown as redacted, blurred, pixelated, hidden and locked previews.
Your vault
An open photo in Reliquary with edit, send, privacy and delete actions.
Open a photo
Preview style choices for one photo: thumbnail, blurred, pixelated, redacted, hidden or locked.
Choose how it shows
Share with contact sheet: full photo, blurred preview, select region or partial reveal, with tracing, watermark and view once.
Share with a contact
How Reliquary works: your vault is local, encrypted at rest, with a Recovery Key and an app lock.
How it works
Settings with vault lock, preview privacy, Reliquary Pro, and Recovery Key.
Lock and key

01

Off the camera roll

The shutter writes into Reliquary’s encrypted vault, not the system gallery, so photos are not scooped into iCloud or Google Photos by default.

02

You hold the Recovery Key

AES-256-GCM at rest on your device. Apps for Good does not keep a spare key. Lose the key, and we cannot recover the vault.

03

Share on purpose

Pair face-to-face, then send a controlled export. View-once shortens access; it is not screenshot-proof. Delivery tracing on Pro is best-effort, not DRM.

Free vault and Pro

Pro is a one-time unlock, not a subscription.

Free vault

Free

A small private set, fully local.

  • Up to 10 encrypted captures or imports
  • PIN vault lock
  • Blurred or pixelated grid privacy
  • 3 secure shares to try the flow

Reliquary Pro

One-time unlock

Not a subscription.

  • Unlimited captures
  • Trusted contacts, share, and inbox
  • Delivery tracing and watermarks (best-effort)
  • Biometrics and encrypted backup export

Reliquary encrypts locally and shares only when you choose. It does not stop screenshots while unlocked, physical coercion, or determined edits of files you already shared. Optional share relay may see short-TTL delivery metadata, never photo plaintext.

Privacy policy

Common questions

Does it sync to iCloud or Google Photos?

No. Captures stay in Reliquary’s app storage and are not written to the system camera roll by default.

Do I need an account?

No account for the local vault. No ads. No cloud photo library login.

What if I lose my phone?

Restore with your Recovery Key on a new device. Apps for Good does not hold a copy. Without the key, vault contents cannot be recovered by us.

Get Reliquary

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