The encrypted vault for photos, videos and documents
Danton keeps your photos, videos and documents in an encrypted vault on your phone. No account, no server.
Photos, videos and documents stay encrypted on your device. Danton works without a connection too.
Encrypted vault
FreeWhat it does. Every photo, video and document is encrypted on your device the moment it arrives.
Danton uses AES-256-GCM. Each vault has a 256-bit key, and each file has its own. File names are encrypted like the content. There’s no account to create, and no server receives your files.
What you seeWhat anyone else sees
Unlock
FreeWhat it does. Open the vault by tracing your pattern on a grid of 5×5 dots.
The pattern has between 6 and 25 dots and at least one turn. It stays on your phone, and on its own it can’t read a backup. If you prefer, you can get in with Face ID or a passcode.
Try it.
Trace at least 6 dots with a turn.
Archive
FreeWhat it does. The archive gathers the vault’s folders and files, with search and filters by type.
Each folder shows two thumbnails of its contents. Search by name, filter for photos, videos and documents, mark favorites and choose the order yourself. The + button imports from wherever you like.
Folders
FreeWhat it does. Each folder shows its subfolders at the top and its files grouped by day and by place.
Open a file full screen, or select several at once to move, share or delete them. The folder structure is encrypted too.
Viewer
FreeWhat it does. View photos, videos and documents full screen without taking them out of the vault.
Videos start right away: Danton decrypts them a piece at a time while you watch. A card shows how the file is protected: the type of encryption, where the key is kept, the folder and the size. A tap hides the controls.
Import
FreeWhat it does. Add content from Photos, from Files or with the private camera, and choose the destination folder.
A bar shows the encryption in progress. Danton checks every copy before showing it in the archive. Only afterward can you remove the originals from Photos, if you want.
Private camera
FreeWhat it does. Take photos and record videos that go straight into the vault, encrypted.
Shots don’t pass through the camera roll, and Danton doesn’t read your location. If you close the camera, lock the phone or switch apps, the recording in progress is discarded.
Recovery phrase
FreeWhat it does. When you create the vault you receive a phrase of nine words. It’s used to recover access.
You can also choose a phrase of your own. Danton doesn’t store it and can’t recover it for you. With the phrase and an encrypted backup, which you can export at any time, you rebuild the vault on another phone.
Example words.
Decoy vault
ProDecoy free, more vaults with ProWhat it does. A second vault with its own pattern and its own content, to show if someone asks you to open Danton.
In the app, the decoy looks just like the real vault: no label tells them apart. With Pro you create several separate vaults, each with its own pattern.
Emergency mode
FreeWhat it does. Choose which vault to show, and set up an emergency pattern.
When you trace it, Danton opens that vault and removes access to the others from the phone. Encrypted files and backups remain: to reopen them you need the recovery phrase.
Auto-lock
FreeWhat it does. Danton locks when you leave the app, or after 30 seconds, 1 minute or 5 minutes. You choose.
When you switch to another app, a cover hides the content in the app switcher.
Integrity check
FreeWhat it does. Danton verifies that the encrypted files are intact, and warns you if something doesn’t add up.
The check runs at every import and whenever you ask for it. If a copy turns out to be damaged, Danton walks you through restoring it from a backup.
Someone trying to get in, a phone left on the table, a folder you want to keep even more locked. Every protection works without a network.
Intruder Alert
ProWhat it does. If someone gets the unlock wrong, Danton quietly takes a photo with the front camera and keeps it encrypted.
The log lists attempts with date and time and, if you want, the approximate place. You choose after how many mistakes it takes a photo: one, two or three. Photos and places stay on the phone. Attempts older than 90 days are deleted automatically.
Face-Down Lock
FreeWhat it does. Place the phone screen down and Danton locks right away.
To get back in, you need the pattern again. It works while Danton is open. The motion is read on the phone and is not saved.
Open
Protected Folders
FreeWhat it does. Add an extra check to a folder: a 4- or 6-digit code, Face ID or a password.
In the archive, the cover of a protected folder stays blurred. If you forget the code, you can unlock all your folders with the nine-word recovery phrase.
Disguised Calculator
FreeWhat it does. Danton can open as a calculator that really works, with a calculator icon.
Type your secret code and press “=”: the pattern screen appears. The calculator alone doesn’t open the vault. The pattern is still required.
Trash
FreeWhat it does. What you delete stays in the trash for 30 days, always encrypted, and then it’s erased.
For each item you see which folder it came from and how long until it’s deleted. Restore one or more items, or empty the trash with a confirmation.
Location Lock
ProWhat it does. The vault opens only in the trusted places you choose, such as home or the office.
Outside those places, the pattern and Face ID aren’t enough: you need the recovery phrase. Pick the spot on the map and a radius from 100 meters to 1 kilometer. Places are stored encrypted, and their names don’t appear on the lock screen.
Lock Screen Camera
ProWhat it does. A button on the pattern screen opens the private camera without opening the vault.
The shot is saved encrypted in the vault you chose, and you find it at the next unlock. From the camera you can’t reach the gallery: when you close it, you return to the pattern.
A private browser, notes, your home computer, the backup in your cloud. Content goes in and out of the vault and stays encrypted.
Private Browser
ProWhat it does. A browser that lives inside the vault: when you close it, history and cookies are cleared.
It blocks trackers and shows how many it has stopped. Press and hold an image to save it: it downloads, is encrypted and verified without going through Photos. Before saving, you can remove location and camera data.
Encrypted Notes
FreeWhat it does. Write notes that live in the vault, encrypted like your photos and documents.
Bold text, lists, checkboxes and images. Every edit is saved encrypted. Notes follow the same rules as files: folders, trash, backups and protected folders.
Wi‑Fi Transfer
ProWhat it does. Connect the vault to a browser on a computer on the same Wi‑Fi network, and move files in both directions.
On the computer, open the address shown by the phone and enter the one-time code. Drag files into the window and they arrive encrypted. The connection lasts as long as the screen stays open.
Cable Transfer
ProWhat it does. Connect the phone to the computer and drag files into the “Incoming” folder.
Danton encrypts the files and removes them from the folder as soon as it imports them. On iPhone the folder appears in the Finder on your Mac, and only if you turn it on.
Backup and sync
ProFree backup, sync with ProWhat it does. Danton saves an encrypted backup to your private cloud space. On iPhone, that’s your iCloud.
Data is encrypted before it leaves the phone: reading it requires your recovery phrase. See when the last backup was made, how many items it holds and how much space it takes. With Pro, the vault syncs across your devices.
Save Space
ProWhat it does. Your phone keeps a compressed copy. The full-quality original stays in the encrypted backup.
When you need the original, download it with a tap. You can turn on Save Space for a single folder too.
Timed Sharing
ProWhat it does. Share a folder or some files with a link that expires and has a maximum number of opens.
Recipients enter a one-time phrase, which you send in a separate message. You can block exporting and revoke the share whenever you like. Receiving is free, even without Pro.
Camera Roll Guardian
ProWhat it does. When you ask, Danton scans the camera roll on the phone and flags photos that look sensitive.
ID documents, payment cards, medical prescriptions, screenshots with passwords. Previews stay blurred. Move one category or everything into the vault, or ignore the flag. No photo leaves the device.
Originals After Import
FreeWhat it does. You decide what happens to the originals when an item enters the vault.
Three choices: ask every time, always delete them, or always keep them. Danton deletes an original only after verifying the encrypted copy, and your phone still asks you to confirm.
Find Duplicates
ProWhat it does. Search for identical or nearly identical photos and videos across the whole vault or in a single folder.
In each group, Danton suggests what to keep: the sharpest photo or the longest video. See how much space you’d recover. Nothing disappears without confirmation: duplicates go through the trash.
Type or say what you want to do. Claude proposes a plan, and Danton carries it out only after you say yes.
Pro
Ask
At the top of the archive is the “Ask Danton…” field.
Write a request like “Hide yesterday’s photos in the Trips folder”, or tap a shortcut like “Find duplicates”.
Dictation
Tap the microphone and the phone transcribes while you speak.
Audio never leaves the device. Nothing is sent on its own: you review the text and send it yourself.
Plan
Danton shows the steps it will take, in plain words and with real numbers calculated on the phone.
Nothing happens until you tap “Run”. You can edit the request or ask for something else.
Confirmation
Deleting, sharing and changing security always go through a confirmation, with Face ID when needed.
You see how many items are involved and how much space they take up. The assistant can’t skip this step.
Done
See the result and a link to what changed.
For 10 seconds, the “Undo” button stays available.
Privacy
Only the text of your request and the list of possible actions.
Never photos, notes, file names, codes or keys. Our server doesn’t store requests or responses.
No network
The assistant field is turned off, and everything else works as usual.
The assistant stays off until you turn it on. Until then, the app contacts no server.
The assistant is part of Danton Pro: up to 30 requests a day and 200 a month.
Danton finds what is private and suggests how to protect it. You always decide. Photos and documents never leave the device.
Pro
Intimate Guardian
What it does. Searches your camera roll for intimate photos and videos, and suggests moving them into the vault.
The search starts only when you ask for it. Previews stay blurred: you see them only if you open them. To remove the originals from the camera roll, the phone asks for your confirmation.
Document Guardian
What it does. Recognizes photos of ID cards, passports, driver’s licenses, payment cards and health cards.
It groups them and tells you why it flagged them, for example “looks like a payment card”. You choose which ones to secure: they end up encrypted in the vault. Danton looks at how the photos appear and sends the data to no one.
Risky Screenshots
What it does. Finds screenshots with passwords, codes, IBANs, wallet recovery phrases or private chats.
Sorts them from highest risk. With a tap you encrypt them into the vault and remove them from the camera roll, with your phone’s confirmation. Danton looks only at screenshots, not at your other photos.
Auto Folders
What it does. Suggests how to sort the vault into five folders: Documents, Receipts, Trips, People, Screenshots.
First you see a preview of what would end up in each folder. Accept all, some or none. For people, only the presence of a face counts: no names and no recognition.
Smart Scanner
What it does. Straightens and cleans the page, recognizes the document type and expiry date, and saves it encrypted in the right folder.
Multiple pages become one PDF. If the document has an expiry date, you can get a reminder a month before. You can change the suggested folder with a tap.
Share Warning
What it does. If you’re about to share a photo with nudity, a document or the faces of other people, Danton warns you.
You see what it found, highlighted on the photo. You choose: redact first, share anyway or cancel. The check happens on the phone.
Auto Redaction
What it does. Automatically covers the card number, IBAN, tax code, address, phone, email and faces.
Choose what to leave visible and share a redacted copy. The original in the vault stays intact.
Sample
Enrollment form
Keep visible
Lock When You Look Away
What it does. If you set the phone down, or no face is in front of the screen anymore, Danton locks by itself.
Choose after how many seconds: 5, 10 or 30. The two signals turn on separately. If the camera can’t see well, for example in the dark, motion decides.
Repeat Intruder
What it does. Groups the photos of unlock attempts when the same person keeps trying.
It alerts you: “The same person tried 3 times this week”. Danton doesn’t know who it is. It compares faces with each other on the phone and labels them Person A and Person B. No names, contacts or internet.
Every feature is off until you turn it on. If you turn them off, Danton deletes the analysis results from your phone.
Colors, icon, small habits. The tools work only on your phone.
Usability
FreeWhat it does. Navigation and playback preferences that apply to the whole phone.
Shake to return to the top, always reopen from the archive, choose how many thumbnails per row, and make videos respect the silent switch. They work the same in the real vault and in the decoy.
Appearance
FreeWhat it does. Choose the accent color from six, or your own, and the app theme.
True Black or “Follow system”, with a live preview. Unlock screens always stay black.
Try a color
App Icon
ProThree icons free, the rest with ProWhat it does. Change Danton’s icon on the Home screen: logo versions, or icons disguised as a calculator, printer, weather, notebook, compass, metronome and spirit level.
The name under the icon stays “Danton”, and the phone shows a warning on each change. Pearl, Calculator and Printer are free. The others are part of Pro.
Danton
Folder Options
FreeWhat it does. The “…” menu gathers a folder’s actions in one place.
Choose the cover, protect the folder, search for duplicates inside it or create a subfolder. Entries for features that are turned off don’t appear.
Offline Help
FreeWhat it does. Forgotten pattern, lost phrase, switching phones: the answers are inside Danton, readable even without a network.
Danton has no account and no server for your files, so support can’t recover anything on your behalf. That’s why the help travels with you.
Photos, videos, notes, places and logs stay encrypted with the vault’s keys. Nothing personal stays readable on the phone.
Danton has no servers for your files. Backups go only to your private cloud, encrypted. The one exception is the assistant, if you turn it on: it sends only the phrase you type or say.
Deleting, sharing and changing security show what will happen and ask for confirmation. What you delete goes through the trash for 30 days.
Every extra feature stays off until you turn it on yourself.
Security, recovery and export are part of the free plan.
Free
All features
€24.99 a year
€3.99 a month
Indicative prices, confirmed at launch. When Pro expires, reading, recovery and export stay available.
On your phone, encrypted. Danton has no server that receives them. If you turn on backup, an encrypted copy goes to your private cloud space.
With the recovery phrase and an encrypted backup, you rebuild the vault on another phone. Without the phrase, nobody can open it, not even us.
You get back in with the nine-word recovery phrase and set a new pattern. Danton doesn’t keep the phrase: store it somewhere safe.
Only the phrase you type or say, and the list of possible actions. Never photos, notes, file names or codes. It stays off until you turn it on.
Yes. Danton is coming to iPhone, iPad and Android. Some features depend on the phone, such as Face ID and iCloud on iPhone, and they may vary from one platform to another.
Danton is free to download and can be used without a subscription. Pro adds advanced features. Indicative prices are €24.99 a year or €3.99 a month, and will be confirmed at launch.
Danton is in development. It’s coming to the App Store and Google Play. Come back, and news will appear here.
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