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For everything that matters most.

Sealed in your device. Yours alone.

Passports, IDs, health cards, wills, deeds, photos. Encrypted by your device's hardware. Recoverable on your terms. Even we can't open it. That's the point.

iPhone · iPad · Mac. Plans from $1.99/mo, one purchase every device.

See it in action

Watch it work.

A run through Kinship Vault the way you'd actually use it, scanning documents, organizing them, and sealing everything behind Face ID. Every bit of it happens on your device.

Now on Mac

A real Mac app. Not a stretched iPad app.

Built natively for macOS, with a proper sidebar, the menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, and drag-and-drop. The same vault you carry in your pocket, sitting where you actually do the paperwork.

Kinship Vault on macOS: sidebar with vault health, essential document categories, and family members

Built for the desktop

A real sidebar and split view. ⌘N for a new document, ⌘L to lock the vault. Mac-style preferences. Drag a file onto the window and it's in.

Light or dark

Follow the system, or pin it. The appearance changes; nothing about how the vault protects you does.

One vault, every device

Pair your Mac by scanning the QR from your iPhone. The key passes between the two machines directly, never through us. One purchase covers all of them.

What it does

Built for the things you can't afford to lose.

Reads them, watches their dates, and seals them behind hardware encryption. No byte ever leaves your device.

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It reads what you already carry.

Passports, driver's licences, health cards, tax forms, wills, all automatically recognized across 100+ document types worldwide. Photos and personal scans come along too, encrypted the same way. Nothing leaves your device.

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Recovery, on terms you decide.

A passphrase you write down once. A circle of people you'd trust with your life. A quiet safety net for the people who'd need it most. Choose what fits, pick any, all, or none.

It watches the dates so you don't have to.

Calm reminders 90, 30, 7, and 1 day before any document expires. Renewals never sneak up on you, and no third party ever sees the dates.

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Quiet by design. Even from us.

No analytics. No telemetry. No "we collect anonymized data." Your decryption stays on your device, always. We don't know who you are, and we couldn't read your vault if we wanted to.

"Recovery is cryptographic, not corporate."

There's no "email reset" link, because there's no company holding your key. Your decryption stays on your device, sealed by the Secure Enclave. We literally cannot unlock your vault, and we built it that way on purpose.

How the keys work

The key is yours. Literally.

Most apps protect your data with a password they can help you reset. Kinship Vault's root secret is not a password at all. It's a hardware-sealed random key that only your device can produce.

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The key is born on your device.

A 256-bit master key, either 32 random bytes from your device's secure random generator, or rebuilt from your BIP39 recovery phrase. That's 256 bits of real entropy, not a password someone could guess. There is nothing to brute-force.

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It's sealed in hardware.

The master key is wrapped by your device's Secure Enclave using ECIES, a hardware key that physically cannot leave the chip. That's the iPhone, the iPad, and Apple silicon Macs alike. It's unwrapped only after Face ID or Touch ID. At rest, the key is hardware-sealed.

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Every document gets its own key.

From that master key, Kinship Vault derives a separate key for each document using HKDF (HMAC-SHA-256). Each file is then encrypted on its own with AES-256-GCM.

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No key ever leaves your device.

None of these keys are sent to a server, ours or anyone else's. A data breach or a legal request on our side turns up nothing, because there is no key on our side to hand over.

A closer look

Quietly serious about the things you keep.

From the first time you open it, to the moment someone you trust steps in.

Kinship Vault biometric unlock screen with Face ID and PIN keypad

Opening it

The only person who can open it is you.

Face ID, Touch ID, or a 6-digit PIN. On a Mac, Touch ID or your login password. Authentication happens entirely on your device. There's no Kinship Vault account, no password reset, no email recovery link.

If the device is in your hands and your face is in front of it, the vault opens. Anything less, it stays sealed.

Document scanner extracting fields from a driver's license

Filling it

It reads the documents you already carry.

On iPhone and iPad, point the camera at a passport, driver's licence, health card, or tax form. On the Mac, drag the file onto the window. Either way the app recognizes the structured fields automatically across 100+ document schemas worldwide, and encrypts everything before it touches storage. Photos and personal scans come along too.

Nothing is sent to a server. Nothing leaves your device.

Trusted contacts list with recovery holders

The people you'd choose

Your inner circle, where it belongs.

The people you'd want to step in if your phone disappeared, or if something happened to you. Each holds an encrypted recovery piece, a sealed envelope they can return only when you ask for it.

They never see what's inside the vault. Just a fragment of a key that, on its own, opens nothing.

Recovery network screen showing four trusted contacts holding shards

Getting back in

Recovery, written by you. Held by them.

If you lose your phone, three of your trusted people can hand back their pieces and you're in. No cloud download. No support ticket. No password-reset email that could be intercepted.

Recovery happens entirely between you and the people you've already chosen, exactly the way you set it up.

Emergency mode showing blood type, allergies, and ICE contacts

When seconds count

Calm and ready, without unlocking everything.

Blood type, allergies, ICE contacts, travel ID. Readable in one tap, even when the vault is locked. Available the moment you (or someone helping you) needs them.

The rest of what you're keeping safe stays exactly where it is. Sealed.

Across your devices

Bring it with you. Without breaking the seal.

Open the same vault on your iPhone, your iPad, and your Mac. The key passes between the two devices in person, sealed in their secure hardware, never through us.

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Pricing

One membership. Every device.

Vault Pro unlocks everything. Choose how you pay: monthly, yearly, or once for life. Every plan works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac on the same Apple Account.

Start free with your first 3 documents. Upgrade whenever you're ready.

Monthly
$1.99/mo

Full Vault Pro, billed monthly. Cancel anytime.

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Lifetime
$39.99once

Pay once, yours forever. No subscription. Launch offer: $14.99. Redeem 62% off

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Every plan includes
Unlimited documents: not just 3
Smart Scan & OCR: auto-fill 100+ document types
All 6 categories: IDs, Health, Legal, Finance, Travel, Personal
Encrypted backup: your iCloud + manual export
Recovery Network: split your key across trusted people
Encrypted photo vault: albums and personal scans, sealed the same way
Custom categories: create your own, not just the 6 defaults
Expiry alerts & people tagging: never miss a renewal

One purchase unlocks iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase.

Questions

The things people ask first.

How much does it cost?
You can start free with your first 3 documents. Vault Pro unlocks everything and comes three ways: $1.99/month, $14.99/year (that's $1.25/month, 37% less than monthly), or $39.99 once for Lifetime. Any one of them unlocks the same app across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. See the full breakdown.
Can Kinship Vault read my documents?
No. Your documents are encrypted with a key that is generated and sealed on your device and never sent to us. We hold no copy of your key, so there is nothing on our side that could decrypt your vault, even if someone asked us to.
What encryption do you actually use?
Your root secret is not a password, it's a hardware-sealed random key. A 256-bit master key is created on your device, either 32 random bytes from the operating system's secure random generator or rebuilt from your BIP39 recovery phrase, which is 256 bits of real entropy and not something that can be brute-forced. That master key is wrapped by your device's Secure Enclave (ECIES, a hardware key) and unwrapped only after Face ID or Touch ID. That is true on iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Macs alike. From it, Kinship Vault derives a separate key for every document using HKDF (HMAC-SHA-256), then encrypts each file with AES-256-GCM. There is no master password, so there is nothing for anyone to guess or for us to reset.
What happens if I lose my phone?
You set recovery up in advance. Write down a recovery passphrase, or split a recovery key across people you trust so a few of them together can help you back in. Recovery happens between you and the people you chose, with no cloud download and no reset email.
Can I use the same vault on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac?
Yes. On the device that already has your vault, open Settings and tap "Link a New Device." A QR appears on screen for 60 seconds. On the other device, open Kinship Vault, choose "Bring My Vault," and point its camera at the first device. A Mac uses its built-in camera for exactly this. The key passes directly between the two devices through that on-screen code, and your documents come down from your own encrypted iCloud backup and are decrypted only on the second device. Nothing about the handoff routes through our servers. See the four-step walkthrough.
Do I pay again for the Mac app?
No. It's one universal purchase. Whatever you've bought, a subscription or Lifetime Premium, carries across iPhone, iPad, and Mac on the same Apple Account. Download it on the Mac and sign in as usual; there is nothing else to buy.
Is the Mac app just the iPad app in a window?
No. It's a native macOS app, built with SwiftUI for the Mac, requiring macOS 14 or later. It has a real sidebar and split view, menu bar commands with keyboard shortcuts, a Mac-style preferences window, drag-and-drop import, and a light, dark, or system appearance. See the Mac app.
What's different about the Mac version?
Three things, and we'd rather you heard them from us. Macs have no document-scanning camera flow, so instead of pointing a camera at a passport you drag the file in, or pull it from Photos or Files; the same on-device recognition runs either way. macOS gives apps no way to block screenshots, so when the Mac is the device showing a pairing QR, that QR is not screenshot-protected the way it is on iOS; the app warns you on screen. And the Dead Man's Switch runs on iPhone and iPad only, because it depends on check-in reminders a desktop app can't reliably send. Everything else, including the encryption, is the same. The full picture is on the Mac page.
Do my documents get uploaded anywhere?
Not unless you choose to. Kinship Vault works fully offline. If you turn on backup, it is encrypted with your key and stored in your own iCloud, on your terms.
Is there an account or password to create?
No account, no password, no email. The app is tied to your device and your biometrics, which also means there is no account for anyone to phish or breach.

Yours alone. By design.

No middleman. No analytics. No password-reset email that could compromise everything you cared about protecting. Just the documents you keep close, the people you trust, and the devices already in your pocket and on your desk.