A camera with an expiry date
Pick an hour, tonight, tomorrow or the end of a meeting. The ring around the shutter shows how long the photo lives. Then it is gone, without you thinking about it.
Some photos you only need for a moment.
The Wi-Fi password, where you parked, a boarding pass. Vanish keeps them in an encrypted vault and deletes them when their time is up.
Free for iPhone and iPad, with optional Pro.
What Vanish does
Clear out old screenshots
Vanish finds screenshots and images with codes in your photo library, right on your iPhone. It moves them into the vault with an expiry, and iOS deletes the originals once you confirm. Free for everyone, new in 1.6.
Hand over files, sealed
Send any file as an encrypted .vanish file through any messenger, AirDrop or email. You decide until when it opens, how many times, and whether it may be forwarded.
Guides
Step by step, with the buttons named as they appear in the app.
- Clean up old screenshots on your iPhoneVanish finds screenshots and images with codes in your photo library, moves them into its vault with an expiry date, and lets iOS delete the originals. The search runs only on your iPhone.
- Open a .vanish fileA .vanish file is an encrypted handover. You open it with the Vanish app on an iPhone or iPad. It is free and needs no account.
- Send a copy of your ID securelyA landlord, a bank, a new job: often a copy of your ID has to go out, but it shouldn’t sit in a chat forever. Vanish scans both sides, stamps a purpose note on it and sends the copy with an expiry.
- Send only some pages of a PDFOften someone only needs two pages of a long PDF, like a lease or a statement. In Vanish you split those pages out and send only them.
- Share a Wi-Fi password or login securelyA Wi-Fi password for guests or a login for your sister should arrive, but not stay in a chat forever. In Vanish you write it as a note and send it sealed.
- A photo that deletes itselfYou need to know where you parked exactly until you walk back. Vanish takes photos like that with an expiry and deletes them afterwards on its own.
- Black out an IBAN or address in a documentBefore a statement or contract goes out, not everything on it should be readable. Vanish finds IBANs, tax IDs, addresses and more, and burns the bars in for good.
- Delete a photo when you leave a placeYour hotel room number or the code at the office door only matter while you are there. Vanish can delete photos like that as soon as you leave.
- Prevent screenshots of a handoverWhen you seal a handover, you can decide what happens on a screenshot. Here is what that does and where the limit is.
Someone sent you a .vanish file?
You open it with Vanish on an iPhone or iPad. Receiving is free, and you need no account.
What Vanish knows about you
- Vanish collects no data. There is no account, no server of ours and no third-party library in the app.
- Your vault is never backed up to iCloud. Its key stays in your iPhone’s Keychain and does not leave the device.
- Vanish only goes online through Apple services you trigger yourself: iCloud for your settings, map search for places, and purchases.
- This website sets no cookies and loads no tracking scripts.
What no app can do: stop someone from photographing the screen with a second phone. Vanish does not claim otherwise.
Support
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