Last updated on July 19th, 2020 at 01:04 pm
What you feel when someone sees your private photos or videos on your smartphone! This someone could be your family member, your relative or your friend, who just asks your smartphone “Hi, wow, what a fantastic phone you have, how is that, what features it has”.
They just take your phone and while playing with it, they discover your private photos and videos and other details. Sometimes, you may be in an embarrassing situation so it is better to hide your crazy photos and videos which you don’t want to show anyone except a few some special ones.
If your search Google play, you will find lots of apps that claim to be the best apps to hide your crazy private photos and videos. Here I have listed the top 3 apps that you may select and must have on your smartphone.
Hide Pictures-KeepSafe Vault
If you have some private photos and videos only to hide, then you must go for the top app of this category Hide Pictures-KeepSafe Vault developed by KeepSafe. The latest version, 10.1.1 and updated in the month of July-2020, is available on Google Play store. The app is rated 4.3 on a scale of 5. Don’t be confused with the name, it also hides videos. For more details, just click here but here I want to tell about its two special features
Safe Send: With this feature, you can set a time period, and with this limited time period, you can send your personal pictures to your close friends. They can see the pictures in those time period only.
Fake Pin: You have to make two Pins, one would be real that will hide your crazy photos in a vault while the second one will be fake pin and it will open a fake KeepSafe vault where you can put pictures with which you may feel comfortable.
Hide Pictures-Hide it Pro
The second app is Hide Pictures-Hide it Pro, This app is also rated 4.5 on the scale of 5 and its latest version 8.4, updated in December-2019 is available in Google Store. The best thing with this app is that you can even hide this app on your smartphone, it will not be listed in the app drawer.
The app is cleverly disguised as “Audio Manager” in the App Drawer, which can be used to increase the volumes level high or low. But by pressing the “Audio Manager title” for a long, the actual Hide It Pro app will launch, which is basically your secret vault of pics/ videos/ messages/ apps, etc. For more details, please click here.
Vault-Hide SMS, Pics & Videos
The third best app is Vault-Hide SMS, Pics & Videos developed by NQ Mobile security. This app is although rated 4.5 on the scale of 5 but it has more features than any other similar category apps.
It has features like Private contacts, Break-in-Attempts and Vault Camera among other common features.
Private contact feature allow users to create “private contact”, and all messages and calls from the contact “disappear” from the call logs, almost as if the contact never exists.
Break-in-Attempt feature comes in the premium version of app and it takes photographs anyone who tries to open your vault and enters wrong password. It takes photograph from front facing camera without the intruder knowing it.
Vault Camera: This features directly save photos and videos taken from your built in mobile camera in a password protected vault hence eliminates any possibility of opening your private content on your smartphone.
For more details about the app, please click here.
Be Cautious
All the above apps are free and their premium version has some more features but that will cost you around $3 to $4. You may be happy to hide your private stuff with these apps but it would be best practice if you can save your private photos and videos in a password-protected folder on your laptop/PC. Someone who knows about these apps in more details, they can reach your hidden private content on your smartphone.
