I built an encrypted camera app

[drdonnaa8]

Hey y’all! I’ve built an iOS camera app that encrypts every photo you take, and you can store those photos either on your device or on your personal iCloud.

Find it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/encamera/id1639202616

Main website: https://encrypted.camera

Get 6 months for free when you use the code INDIEHACKERS!

The features:

• Encrypts each photo taken using your active private key
• No cleartext data is ever written to disk, encryption/decryption is done on the fly in memory
• Store your encrypted photos on your iCloud drive or locally on your device
• Encryption keys stay local on your device
• Only image data gets saved, no Exif is written out
• Quick erase of keychain and encrypted data
• Face/Touch ID for quick access

You host all your photos on your own iCloud or keep them local on your device, putting you in control of your files. And unlike other "photo vault" apps on the App Store, Encamera doesn't use the system photo library, and instead are encrypted before being saved as a file.

To-do’s that are on the horizon (should be finished before the end of January):

• Build multi platform open source decrypt utility for desktop, so you will always have a way to access your photos
• Open source the file management portion of the app
• Publish a road map for what’s next

I built Encamera because I wanted a way to easily take and store photos that I didn’t want on my main camera roll, and that weren’t exposed to other apps at all via system APIs. The other apps I’ve seen didn’t fit exactly what I wanted, so I built my own.

I’d generally be interested in feedback on how this meets your specific privacy needs, and what is missing. My guide while designing and building it was what I would personally like to have, so I’m curious to hear feedback from your perspective.

Thanks for looking!