Now on Mac

A real Mac app. Not a stretched iPad app.

Built natively for macOS: a proper sidebar, the menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, drag-and-drop, light or dark. The same encrypted vault you carry on your iPhone, sitting where you actually do the paperwork.

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Requires macOS 14 or later.

Kinship Vault on macOS: a sidebar with quick actions and vault health, beside essential document categories and family members
See it in motion

The whole thing, in about a minute.

Unlock with Touch ID, drag a file onto the window, watch it read the fields and file itself away, all on the desktop. Every frame of this runs on device; nothing you see was uploaded anywhere.

New on Mac

Your passwords, filled right on your desktop.

The password manager is built into the Mac app too. Logins, passkeys, and 2FA codes, end-to-end encrypted with the same key as your documents, with AutoFill in Safari and your apps and a private Security Checkup that shows you what to fix first.

Security Checkup on macOS: a 54 of 100 score with compromised, weak, reused, old, and no-2FA logins ranked by impact
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Logins, passkeys, and 2FA codes.

Everything in one encrypted place, synced with your iPhone and iPad on the same Apple Account. No separate account and no master password to reset.

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AutoFill across your Mac.

Set Kinship Vault as your AutoFill provider in System Settings and it fills logins and passkeys in Safari and your apps, unlocked with Touch ID or your Mac password.

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Security Checkup, on device.

A score out of 100 that ranks weak, reused, old, and breached logins by impact, with a clear next step. In Strict Offline mode the breach check stays off and the rest still run.

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The same seal as everything else.

Each secret is wrapped with a key derived from your hardware-sealed master key and encrypted with AES-256-GCM. Nothing about your passwords is ever readable to us.

Built for the desktop

It behaves like a Mac app, because it is one.

Not a phone layout blown up to fill a window. Every Mac convention you'd expect is where you'd expect it.

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A real sidebar.

Split view with your library, protection, quick actions, and vault health always in reach. Recent documents open straight into the detail pane. The grid adds columns as you widen the window.

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The menu bar and the keyboard.

⌘N for a new document. ⌘L to lock the vault instantly. ⌃⌘S to show or hide the sidebar. Both vault commands grey out while the vault is locked.

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Drag a file in and it's yours.

Drop a PDF or a photo onto the window, or pull one from Photos or Files. The same on-device recognition reads the fields and encrypts it before it touches storage.

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Mac-style preferences.

A category list with a focused pane, the way Mac settings are supposed to work. General, Security, Notifications, Emergency, Backup, iCloud Sync, and Legacy.

Light or dark

The same private vault, in light or dark.

Follow the system or pin it, from the appearance picker in General. The look changes. Nothing about how the vault protects you does.

Kinship Vault on macOS in light appearance, showing the dashboard
Light
Kinship Vault macOS settings window with the System, Light, and Dark appearance picker
The appearance picker, in Settings
The Kinship Vault Mac lock screen with Unlock with Touch ID, a PIN keypad, and Passphrase, Recovery Network, and Bring My Vault options

One vault, every device

Bring your vault to the Mac in about a minute.

On the iPhone that already holds your vault, open Settings and choose Link a New Device. A QR appears for 60 seconds. On the Mac, choose Bring My Vault and hold the iPhone up to the Mac's built-in camera.

The key passes directly between the two machines through that code. Your documents come down from your own encrypted iCloud backup and are decrypted only on the Mac. Nothing about the handoff routes through us, because there is nothing of yours on our side to route.

It works in the other direction too: the Mac can show the code and hand your vault to a new iPhone. See the four-step walkthrough.

The Privacy and Security screen on macOS, listing the five layers between your data and the world

The same encryption

Nothing about the security model got softer on the desktop.

On an Apple silicon Mac, your 256-bit master key is wrapped by the Secure Enclave using ECIES, the same hardware seal as on the iPhone. Every document still gets its own key derived with HKDF, and every file is still encrypted on its own with AES-256-GCM. There is no account, no password to reset, and no key on our side for anyone to ask us for.

Unlock with Touch ID if your Mac has it, with your Mac login password if it doesn't, or with your PIN.

One honest detail, since Macs differ: plenty of them have no Touch ID at all, so the Mac also keeps a copy of your key wrapped by a PBKDF2 key derived from your PIN. That's what lets a PIN alone open the vault on a machine with no biometrics, and it means your PIN is doing real work here. Pick one you don't use anywhere else.

All of it came along

Everything the app does, on a bigger screen.

The Mac app is not a viewer or a companion. It's the whole vault.

Straight answers

Three things that work differently on a Mac.

We'd rather you heard these from us than found them out later. The encryption is identical; these are the places the platform itself differs.

You import documents instead of scanning them.

There's no camera-scanning flow on the Mac. Instead of pointing a lens at a passport, you drag the file onto the window or pull it in from Photos or Files. The same on-device recognition reads the fields, across the same 100+ document types, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. The Mac does use its camera for one thing: reading the pairing QR from your iPhone.

macOS can't block screenshots of the pairing code.

On iOS, the pairing QR is hidden from screenshots and screen recordings by the system. macOS gives apps no equivalent, and cannot even tell an app that the screen is being captured. So when the Mac is the device displaying a pairing code, that code is not screenshot-protected, and the app says so on screen. It still expires after 60 seconds. Treat the code the way you'd treat the key it is: show it to your other device, and to nothing else.

The Dead Man's Switch is armed on iPhone and iPad only.

The inactivity-triggered handoff depends on check-in reminders arriving reliably over a long stretch of time, which a desktop app that may sit closed for weeks cannot promise. Rather than ship something that looks like a safety net and isn't one, we left the owner side off the Mac. Set it up on your iPhone; it protects the same vault. If someone has named you as their trustee, the Mac does show your status, including when a release becomes available, though the release itself is done on your iPhone.

Also worth knowing: pairing needs a camera, so a Mac without one (a Mac mini or Studio with no webcam attached) can't scan the QR. Use your recovery passphrase or your Recovery Network on that machine instead.

Pricing

Two plans. Every Apple device.

Your purchase carries across iPhone, iPad, and Mac on the same Apple Account. Buy on any device; the Mac is already unlocked. Solo covers your own vaults, Shared adds the ones you co-own.

Passwords, passkeys and 2FA codes are free and unlimited, along with your first 10 documents. Upgrade whenever you're ready.

The prices below are for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The Android app is a separate purchase with its own pricing on Google Play.

Solo
$19.99/yr

Just $1.67/mo, billed yearly. Save 44% vs monthly. Everything Kinship Vault does, for your own vaults.

Monthly$2.99/mo
Lifetime$59.99 once
Get Solo
Free, no account, no card
Unlimited passwords, passkeys and 2FA codes: no cap, ever
AutoFill everywhere: iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Safari, Chrome, Edge and Brave
Security Checkup: weak, reused and breached logins, checked on your device
10 documents: filed under any of the 7 built-in categories
Encrypted backup and restore: to your own iCloud, or a file you keep
Recovery passphrase: 24 words that bring the vault back on a new device
Both plans add
Unlimited documents: not just 10
Multiple vaults: keep personal and work separately keyed
Sensitive vaults: a second wall, with its own password
Smart Scan & OCR: auto-fill 100+ document types, past the free 10
Custom categories and record types: your own, beyond the 7 built in
Encrypted photo vault: albums and personal scans, sealed the same way
Recovery Network: split your key across trusted people
Expiry alerts and people tagging: never miss a renewal, tag beyond the first 2 people
Shared adds
Shared vaults: share a whole vault, logins, documents and notes
Invite by name: pick a contact, confirm with Face ID, send a link or show a QR
Free for the people you invite: only the owner needs the plan
Remove access anytime: the vault key rotates, not just the list
Everyone uses their own Face ID: no shared master password
Still end-to-end encrypted: the key is wrapped to each member's device

One purchase unlocks iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Only the person who creates a shared vault needs the Shared plan; the people they invite join at no cost. 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. Prices are in US dollars and may differ by region.

Yours alone. On every screen.

One purchase, one vault, and no key on our side for anyone to ask us for. On the iPhone in your pocket and the Mac on your desk.