What Hide it Pro is
Hide it Pro is listed as Hide Photos Video -Hide it Pro, published by Anuj Tenani, on the App Store since May 2012. It has a 4.7 rating from about 25,000 ratings, a 42 MB download and a 4+ age rating. The description says it was featured by Apple and reached number one in 105 stores, and leads with hiding photos and videos behind an impenetrable lock screen.
How it protects your photos
The lock screen is the protection. Two features sit on top of it: a disguise screen that shows a crash when someone opens the app, and an Escape Unlock code that makes the app look empty. The app locks when you leave it. Nothing in the listing describes encryption, intruder logging or a facedown lock.
Where your photos go
Locally, with albums, a viewer and a player. You can add from the camera roll, iTunes or the camera, export everything by USB in one tap, and back up to cloud storage on a monthly subscription. The listing does not say whether the cloud backup is encrypted.
What it costs
The US listing shows Cloud Storage at $9.99 and Password Reset at $4.99.
A paid password reset is worth pausing on. If the developer can reset your password for a fee, the files are not locked to a secret only you hold.
What the privacy label says
Only Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data) is listed, under Data Not Linked to You.
What the listing does not mention
The sources do not mention encryption, working without an account for cloud, a real decoy vault, a self-destruct passcode, intruder alerts, facedown lock, face blur, downloading from a link, an encrypted backup in your own iCloud, a recovery key you hold, burner email, private contacts, or sub-albums. See Kryptis vs Hide it Pro.
Who Hide it Pro suits
It suits someone who wants a light lock with a convincing fake crash and does not need the files to be unreadable. The escape code is a good idea done cheaply. The password reset is the reason not to trust it with anything that matters.
Kryptis instead
Kryptis is built for the people these listings leave out: anyone who wants the vault to stay on the phone and stay unreadable. Every photo, video and file is encrypted with AES-256-GCM on the device before it is stored, along with its metadata. There is no account and no server. A second passcode opens a decoy vault with its own albums, a third erases everything, and failed unlocks are recorded. Backup goes to your own iCloud, already encrypted, and the only way back in after a lost passcode is the BIP39 recovery phrase you were given at setup.
