Open your library with Face ID or your local App Code.
Preparing for the App Store
Questions worth answering before you trust a vault
Straight answers about accounts, storage, App Code, backup credentials, subscriptions, export and recovery.
Encrypted Library & BackupsNo account, advertising, analytics or behavioural tracking.
No vague promises
How Photress handles your files
Photress is a private, encrypted photo and video library designed to keep your files under your control. Your media stays on your iPhone and in backup locations you choose. No Photress account is required.
The screen below comes from the current Photress interface, not a marketing reconstruction.
Import photos and videos from Photos or Files.
Browse your photos, play videos, and organise with albums, favourites, and smart collections. Pro also adds nested folders and additional independent backup destinations.
Original photo and video resources, thumbnails, library metadata, and local indexes are encrypted at rest.
What matters here
Details that should not stay hidden
Straight answers about accounts, storage, App Code, backup credentials, subscriptions, export and recovery.
Good privacy software should make the state understandable before asking you to trust it.
Every media resource gets its own random 256-bit key. AES-256-GCM encrypts and authenticates the data, so altered or corrupted encrypted content is rejected.
Metadata uses a separately keyed SQLCipher database. Backup Passphrases use Argon2id, while the local App Code is deliberately excluded from portable-backup encryption.
Encrypted Library & Backups
What Photress promises — and what it does not
Photress reports only the evidence it has. It does not turn a local write into a cloud-upload claim or a successful integrity check into a completed restore test.
Choose iCloud Drive, an external drive, or another Files location.