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Set Up HypaVault and Find Your Way Around
A passcode, 12 words on paper, and a quick tour of the five tabs. Everything you need before you add your first file.
Learn HypaVault, One Guide at a Time
11 walkthroughs in reading order, from your first passcode to Stealth Mode, backups and moving to a new phone. Each one shows the app and every step.
11 guides in 4 topicsRemembered in this browser only
Start with guide 1 of 11Set Up HypaVault and Find Your Way AroundGetting Started
Set up your vault and bring your first files in.
2 guides
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Bring Photos, Videos, Files and Recordings Into Your Vault
Every way in through the + button: the in-app camera, your photo library, documents and the recorder, plus how to clear the originals from your gallery.
Your Files
Folders, search, notes and seed phrases.
2 guides
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Organise Your Vault Like a File Manager
Folders inside folders, views saved per folder, drag and drop, and a search that finds anything by name. Here's how to keep a growing vault tidy.
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Keep Private Notes and Crypto Seed Phrases
Notes that save as you type, and a seed phrase note that keeps your crypto wallet's words hidden until you press and hold.
Staying Private
Lock it, disguise it and keep it safe, even when you're forced to unlock.
4 guides
2 min read
Lock Down HypaVault on iPhone and Android
Auto-Lock, the privacy cover, screenshots and wrong tries: what keeps the vault covered when you put the phone down, and where its protection ends.
3 steps · 1 min read
Disguise HypaVault as a Calculator or Clock
A lock screen that works as a real calculator or alarm clock, an app icon to match, and how to open your vault from each.
3 steps · 1 min read
Keep Up to Three Hidden Vaults on One Phone
Up to three vaults on one phone, each behind its own passcode, and nothing in any of them that shows the others exist.
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Prepare a Duress Passcode Before You Need It
A second passcode for when someone forces you to unlock. Here's exactly what it does, and what to prepare so you can bring your vaults back afterwards.
Backups and Phones
Back up, move to a new phone and share a vault.
3 guides
6 steps · 1 min read
Back Up, Restore and Test Your Vault
One encrypted file, checked before it's saved and kept wherever you choose. How to make it, restore from it, and prove it works before you need it.
6 steps · 1 min read
Move HypaVault to a New Phone
Your device key stays on the old phone, so each vault comes over with its recovery phrase. Here are the three ways to do it, and what to check before you wipe the old one.
3 steps · 1 min read
Share a Vault with Someone You Trust
An encrypted copy and a one-time code, sent by different routes. The person who has both opens it as their own vault.
Need a Quick Answer Instead?
Guides take a goal from start to finish. For one task or one question, these are faster.
Follow Along on Your Own Phone
Every guide matches the app. Get HypaVault for iPhone, iPad or Android, and start with just a passcode.
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Questions About the Guides
Where to start, how guides differ from the Help Center, and how the page remembers what you've read.
Walkthroughs that take one goal from start to finish, like setting up your vault, disguising it as a calculator or moving to a new phone. Each one shows the app and the exact steps.
A help article answers one task in a few lines, like restoring a purchase. A guide covers a whole goal, explains why each step matters, and links to the help articles along the way.
Set Up HypaVault and Find Your Way Around. The guides are in reading order, from your first passcode to sharing a vault with someone you trust.
Read the Help ArticleNo. Each guide stands on its own, so you can go straight to the one you need. Reading in order simply builds on what came before.
Your browser remembers the guides you've opened, in its local storage on this device only. Nothing about it reaches us, and clearing the site's data in your browser resets it.
Yes. HypaVault works the same way on iPhone, iPad and Android, and where something differs, like screenshots or the name under a disguised icon, the guide says so.
Read the Help ArticleEach guide shows the date it was published, beside its topic and reading time.
Yes. Email mail@hypavault.com with what you'd like a guide to cover.
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