SPV - Photo Vault Reviews

by Dr. K1965

DO NOT USE SPV!!!!! It’s a SCAM!!!!!!
I had some pictures of sentimental value on SPV. They were memories of a life time that I will never ever be able to replace. I wish I would have read these reviews prior to exporting my pictures over. I too face many of the problems that many of these other app users have experience. I hate to give bad reviews because I understand that there are always two sides to every story, matter fact I’ve never given a bad review but I refused to be silent about this because I would hate for someone to be heart broken like me. There is one side to this story and it’s the truth! Bottom line is “DO NOT USE SPV unless you plan on never seeing your information again.

by Rottenvisage

I had some sensitive material from my wife of two years on SPV. It was hidden so my kids would not find it as they are playing with the phone. Well now i found a new app and decided too move my pictures and videos over too my pictures app and onto this other app. Lo and behold you cannot export more then ten pictures without paying. They have a 7 day free trial so I figured “oh thats annoying but ok.” I sign up and Bam apple cannot be reached. Ok. I try again. I try restoring purchases. I call apple. Its SPV they say. Ok. So i try paying the money. It went through and it charged me but i still could not export anything and apple store still couldn’t be reached. You cant zoom in on your pictures or move your zoom around. SPV was developed by a 14 year old with no idea of what people want. Because of you i lost a good amount of personal information and pictures. Thanks guys.

by Heavens-Angel75

I downloaded SPV because it had great reviews and I believed that once you download your photos it would be safe. About 2 years ago I lost my best friend and I saved all his photos and it was downloaded to SPV thinking it would be safe. A week ago I went to upload some photos to SPV , it was my daughters art work since she was 9 years old until now that she’s 14. I thought it would be a great way to save her art work. I was so torn and broken hearted when I got into SPV this morning and realized that all my memory photos were deleted. How am I gonna tell my daughter that I lost all her photos. I trusted SPV, it did not say anything about paying. I am so upset but most of all hurt. I will not download any more apps from any App Store anymore. I even emailed them and nothing . Poor customer service. Not a good day for me.

by Pugofwar05

It allows you to save your photos in a place nobody would ever look, however, it appears in my suggestions when I swipe left on the home screen and somebody immediately knows what it is. I understand you can’t change how an apple phone works but if it actually looked like a calculator when opened this would be a problem. There are also multiple bugs like not being able to export photos, the fake password often doesn’t work and when you enter it you see all your personal photos that shouldn’t be there, crashes when moving or importing photos, and etc. you also can’t zoom in or have any control over the picture your looking at. It does work as a personal photo vault iq just wish that it was slightly better quality. I have also heard that a majority of the premium features don’t work correctly. Hope for an update to fix the bugs but otherwise a decent photo vault. And lastly if you decide your going to delete your photos after importing, save them in your my eyes only and take that risk, because otherwise you will only be able to screenshot to get them out and have lower quality pictures and also have to edit out the screen around the picture to make it look normal.

by SwaynBirdz

This was a GREAT app. From the secret passcode to the secondary passcode. Reason for a 3 star (and in my opinion should be lower now) is because once you click on SPV from your home screen you get a split second view of your photo albums. Every single album pops up for a split second without any passcode required. Now any smart person would screen record and play back what was there, and by that point a secondary passcode is pointless. They need to fix that glitch and soon. Because SPV was great, but now after months of use, is this close to being deleted.

by Dropraintopdrop

I hear a lot of people talking about the export limit being low. I hear you it’s annoying but it’s manageable if you screen record the video/image again and crop it in editing. It loses some of its quality but you still have the video. Along with that sometimes the passcode bugs out and SPV does to. The finale thing I see that is a problem is no zoom but it’s a small gripe. Other then that SPV works well and I have no other problems with it. It does it’s job and for a free app it’s decent. If the limit is changed and other bugs are fixed I will updated my review and rating accordingly.

by Autumn Rocha

SPV is phenomenal, allowing me to keep the more personal pictures I have safe so people can’t simply take one look at my pictures and immediately know information about me. The only nitpick I have is the trash bin. I accidentally deleted a few of my photos and I thought I would be able to go retrieve them without problem. However, upon tapping the delete bin, I got the prompt asking me to join Premium. Do I have to have Premium just to get those pictures back or is there a simpler way? Aside from that, I really like it. Thank you for making an outstanding app!

by Goldenpoodleonfire

I think this is a great and user friendly app. I have been using it for a while. The only reason I took a star off is because after an update by the developers, whenever I try to load SPV it crashes immediately. This is nothing against them, but I would like access to what I have it the vault and I can no longer use it as of right now. Also when I try to contact them for help it only redirects me to a Facebook page which I do not like.

by KmdrTwinkles

Ive had SPV for a couple months now and i use it alot but when i use its browser i have to use google or else the page wont load any results. Google was previously its go to page but now a different one is that isnt a browser.. so i cant search anything up because there isnt a working ‘search bar’. On a positive note, its really helpful for hiding certain things from adventurous kids who use my phone for games. There are a bunch of really nice features but the browser is currently not working for me.

by PARC78

I don’t know if this truly has to do with SPV, but I was using it and after I left SPV I went to my camera roll and there were 3 pictures taken from my front camera of me that I didn’t take that were taken around the time I was on SPV , and this is one of my only apps that had camera permissions, so it Looks pretty suspicious.

Turns out this is actually a security measure when you type in the wrong password. It will take a picture of the person who tried to access your info.

by Brother Comrade

Hey hey! I love SPV! Absolutely awesome! It's really useful, and simple! I adore your work on here and I'm sure you have a very competent team of devs working hard to ensure we have the best experience. Now, with all that, there's just a couple minor things. To be quite frank, the image gallery is quite lackluster. My main concern is being able to hide the HUD of an image. I would like to see the image by itself without the annoying heads up display. It's got great potential but the main point of concern is organization. Most other apps have a very useful feature of sorting by date created, or by simply dragging and dropping things into place! This helps especially when folders can't be put in other folders! Really useful! I also want to see a "randomize" option, to display photos in a random order like a slideshow! Many other apps can do these things, and I'm sure that the dev team is more than capable of solving these minor issues.

Other than that, everything is awesome!!! Absolutely love to see the dev team respond and get updates frequently to make our experience better! With a bit of tweaking, SPV deserves 5 stars!

by Ruggbee

SPV is literally so cool with so many features. You can make a fake passcode to mislead anyone, and it’ll take images of anyone who tries to break in. It’s amazing, and I would recommend it to anyone. However, I wish there was a way you could back up your images/information in the case that you lose your phone or something goes wrong. Also, anytime I open SPV , it seems to glitch and for a millisecond you can see the stuff that’s hidden. In the case that anyone were to open SPV , they would get a small glimpse of what I have, which defeats the purpose of SPV .

by RubenRuiz5

Overall the application is great and has los of functionalities which are awesome. The only problem I have found out so far is that if I take a picture with my iPhone in portrait mode, it is saved as an HEIF file which provides nice functions on edit mode such as changing the f stop. If I upload the picture into SPV and afterwards want to download it, it is exported as a plain JPEG and hence very important information contained in the HEIF is lost. I can’t change the f stop anymore on the exported file. It would be great if they place functionality to keep and export the pictures in exactly the same format they were imported into de app. Other than that, SPV is great.

by Ladypong42

SPV is actually really good for hiding photos, videos, contacts, you can even search the web on this and it won’t pop up on your regular search engine. All in all I would really recommend SPV. And don’t worry about paying for anything you can SPV perfectly without having to pay.

However
The things you do need to pay for are kinda like none important but for people with like more picky and like to search your phone, you can’t really hide SPV that well since it’s not even the same icon as the calculator app. And they do make a app icon that looks just like the calculator and I believe “you can even use it as a calculator but you gotta pay for it which is kinda dumb.

by Mandanbb8099

This is a great app but there are a few minor details that disturb quality of life while using SPV . The first thing is that you can’t rotate SPV to landscape mode which makes usage of SPV pretty inconvenient for use on an iPad. The second thing I noticed is the stability of SPV when looking at gifs in succession is pretty bad. Depending on the size of the gif it is somewhat possible or if the gif is too big when you swipe it will stop mid swipe freeze then crash. I know it’s not designed for gifs but I think it should be able to handle any size of gif. The third thing is that there isn’t a way to hide the HUD when viewing a picture. I suggest that while viewing if you tap it hides the HUD and if you tap again the HUD reappears. Overall this is a pretty great app and I hope to see at least the first point implemented. If the first point is implemented I will definitely change the rating to five stars.

by Yfufhfogxigxgi

I've been using for a year and had no problems until this new update out of nowhere it said I was out of storage which it never had before, along with that there is a glitch where it shows your images for a split second I personally use this for porn so this could be a problem so basically this new update has only made SPV worse except the fake vault, that's absolutely genius. Aside from that stuff it is a great app

by Ellie Bell <3

i love it i really do but i have recommendations. 1. changing icon is free- everyone has secrets here and someone will higher their own suspicions by looking at the name AND icon, so making changing icon free is a good idea. 2. able to change name of app on screen- “this app” is kinda odd to see on someone’s screen.. changing the name to a custom name would be better
3. Dont keep asking for people to buy premium when they enter SPV - seriously, its kinda annoying and desperate. a poor asset of SPV .

Thats all, otherwise, its great! i keep a lot of stuff their and enjoy using it. keep going!

by •Rosetta•

I personally love SPV and all, that's why I gave it a 5 star, but, here are some ideas. When you turn on fake passcode and all and you go in it, it does not snap a picture, you should make it snap a picture when somebody is in the ”Fake gallery” and also you should put down the last time we were on the Real gallery, so in case somebody actually DID make it in the REAL gallery it says the time they did it, and also when snapping the ”secret” photo you can hear it, can you maybe make so that if somebody put in a wrong passcode make sure you can't hear the photo but I don't really think that matters to much anyways. That's all! Bye!

by Tls4every1

After latest update my app just blinked the first screen and shuts down. Can’t access anything I have stored in it, major panic. I contacted the developers and it took them but a day to release an update and I am back in business!! I work for a software company so I know how things like this can happen. Super happy it was a quick remedy!

by Don't Know Awesome

I had no idea there was an app such as this. Tbh i found out about SPV through an older man that was going through a few things and when you play around with it you instantly begin to smile because you realize what you can do and how low key it is. Also i was afraid of my information being erased when i switched out to a new phone but everything transferred over. Impressive

by ClawMaster

At first SPV seemed like a hit but then it stopped working right. At first it was doubling up pictures that I had imported but it didn’t actually. When I would delete a duplicate from the trash bin, it would delete the other as well. Lost several photos this way. And then trying to change the look of the apps cover didn’t work no matter how much I tried. Thank goodness I didn’t pay for this otherwise I would have been very upset. So sad. It showed promise but ended up being a let down.

by Jacd31296

Not worth it. I’ve payed for the premium to have the freedom to import / export as much media as I wanted at a single time. I’ve constantly ran into problems where despite paying for the premium, I am unable to access and transport things. I have accidentally deleted a few photos that I would like to retrieve but I’m unable to access them now because for some reason, as always, the services that I am paying for do not work, and upon trying to restore my purchase it says operation could not be completed or cannot connect to iTunes. So now those photos are lost forever. Oh and also why the HELL would you change a SECRET calculators name to “photo vault”? Such a joke

by Sacx69

SPV is junk. Everything was working fine then 3 days ago I could only access my photos but SPV would crash when I tried to access my passwords. I reached out for help through the “contact us” link in SPV . I never received a response and now everything is gone, all my photos, all my videos and most importantly all my passwords. I’ll be deleting SPV once I submit this review. You just can’t count on technology.

by TsKatieSue

It’s nice but only after I started the free trial.. I wanna keep it only because I have pictures I don’t wanna people to see.. and I have a lot of them... cause who are we kidding, if you download SPV it’s because you have pictures of people that’s not your bf/gf.. or your a perv and love porn pics and stuff.. I’ll admit, I’m a perv hahahahaha

by JR.2001

It’s an amazing and it makes me feel more safe about sensitive things that I have in my phone. I love it so far, but recently I haven’t been able to get on it. I’ll tap on SPV to open it and it’ll just pull up a black screen and send me straight back to my home screen. I really hope y’all can fix it soon.

by Paztman

I want the calculator to actually function if you want it to. After u click on SPV icon it takes you to a password. I thought it was suppose to function as a calculator until u typed in the actual password. It doesnt. Now someone could click on the calculator and then ask for your password to use it. That defeats the purpose.

by Mysterray

It’s a great idea, I have a couple icons three or four pages back that has a bunch of crap inside it, I sneak “calculator” in there and no one knows the difference, but you’ll have to edit the photo before you pull it from “calculator”, once inside there is no option to Edit options, once you have it you need to go back to “photos” and delete them, so they only show up when your in your hidden photo vault.

by Medic6104

Had SPV for a while and it’s awesome. Worked as a fully functional calculator and photo vault. Recent update took away calculator feature and now only a pin protection. Bring back the calculator feature please!!!!

by Makantter

I love SPV it’s absolutely amazing!!🔥 but I wish that when you went on SPV it looked like an actual calculator if it did SPV would be a total 5 star. hopefully you can change it to be like this but if you don’t that is always fine to but it would be a lot more believable if I was. Again this is an amazing app so thank you for making it!

by Pro Mom

I’ve used a few other apps like this. The only reason I’m choosing this one to be my favorite is because the other has the word “vault” in the name. But when you go into SPV, it doesn’t show a calculator it just shows where you put a passcode. I really wish it made it look more like a calculator because it would be perfect if it did.

by Bxkillergamer

This is actually really cool! I love how when you set your phone down it automatically changes to a app of your choice of out of music, messages, mail, and something else but it’s really neat because you can create a fake password and everything!! Its sickk. The only thing that I don’t like is that you have to buy premium to change SPV icon and there’s only the default app picture so you can’t make it look less suspicious:(

by Mrmister765

Some things you just don’t have time to try to search for you just jump on SPV and get it! Well worth it, well worth the premium as well*** a ton of customizations you can do from changing SPV icon to something discreet to break in alerts etc etc.

by Laura_Elizabeth_Rose

SPV is so cool! When I first downloaded SPV , I was shocked at how secure it was, how many features is offered, and that it could actually be used as a calculator! I totally recommend downloading SPV if you want to hide private videos, contacts, and pictures from you friends! Again, SO COOL!!!

by AmandaBizzo

It is overall a good app and is very useful I used it to store stuff that I don’t want and don’t need people to see in there but they could change the title so it’s hidden and make it an actual coculater so it’s more hidden but STILL GOOD