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Life & fun · August 11, 2026

Secure Folder and App Locker

Lock any app behind a calculator nobody thinks twice about

Secure Folder and App Locker launched on August 11, 2026 with 2 votes, #5,788 of 23,274 launches that month.

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What it does

Lock WhatsApp, your gallery, banking and any other app behind a fingerprint or PIN. Move private photos into an encrypted vault with its own viewer. Then disguise the whole thing as a working calculator, so nobody knows the vault is there. Free, offline, no account.

Lock any Android app with your fingerprint, and hide only the photos you choose in an encrypted vault. No account, works offline. Android 8.0+.

Secure Folder is a free Android app lock and encrypted vault. Put WhatsApp, your gallery, messages or banking apps behind your fingerprint, then move the photos, videos and files you would rather nobody saw into a vault only your PIN can open. Weighing up your options first? Our guide to how to lock apps on Android covers the built-in tools on Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO and Pixel phones before it covers ours. Hiding a photo should mean more than moving it to a folder called .private . Anything you add is encrypted with AES-256 before it is written to storage, using a key built from your recovery PIN. Hidden photos and videos are removed from the gallery, and no other app on the phone can read…from metacyberguru.com

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