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Safelight:Photo Vault & Search
Photo vault + offline AI search. No internet permission
Photo apps make you choose: upload your library, or lock photos into a folder you can never search again. Safelight does neither. Photos go into an AES-256 vault unlocked by PIN or fingerprint, and you find them by describing them — "passport", "the whiteboard" — because the model runs on the phone. The app requests no INTERNET permission at all. Sharing strips GPS and EXIF without re-encoding: a receipt for an accountant, a listing photo for a buyer. Free, no ads, no account, no sync.
Every photo vault I tried had the same hole: it could hide things, but then I could not find them. And every app that could search my library wanted it on a server first. I build Android apps for a living — ten years at large internet companies, eight of them shipping my own — and I wanted both halves in one app.
Safelight puts photos in an AES-256 vault unlocked by PIN or fingerprint. Search runs on the phone on a bundled model, so "receipt" or "the whiteboard" finds the shot without a tag ever being written. The vault gets its own encrypted index that loads only while the vault is unlocked, so hidden photos stay findable without the index announcing what is inside.
The claim I care most about is a negative one: the app requests no INTERNET permission at all. You can check it in Android's app info instead of taking my word for it.
What it does not do, so nothing surprises you: face blurring and text redaction are still in development and are not in this version. There is no cloud backup and no password reset — lose the phone and the 16-character recovery code and the vault is gone. No iOS, no sync, no account.
It is a GPL-3.0 derivative of Simple Gallery, and the source is public on Codeberg.
What would you put in first — ID documents, or family photos?
About Safelight:Photo Vault & Search on Product Hunt
“Photo vault + offline AI search. No internet permission”
Safelight:Photo Vault & Search was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #89 on the daily leaderboard. Photo apps make you choose: upload your library, or lock photos into a folder you can never search again. Safelight does neither. Photos go into an AES-256 vault unlocked by PIN or fingerprint, and you find them by describing them — "passport", "the whiteboard" — because the model runs on the phone. The app requests no INTERNET permission at all. Sharing strips GPS and EXIF without re-encoding: a receipt for an accountant, a listing photo for a buyer. Free, no ads, no account, no sync.
On the analytics side, Safelight:Photo Vault & Search competes within Android, Privacy and Photography — topics that collectively have 212.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Safelight:Photo Vault & Search performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Safelight:Photo Vault & Search?
Safelight:Photo Vault & Search was hunted by dylan xu. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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