Your private vault for
valuable documents.
Passports, deeds, records, everything you can’t afford to lose, kept encrypted on your Mac and iPhone, behind a master password only you hold. No account. No cloud by default.
SecludereAll Documents
US Passport
Identity
2031Mortgage Deed
Property
Health Insurance
Health
12 daysLast Will
Legal
Tax Return 2024
Finance
Birth Certificate
Identity
US Passport
United States · Identity
passport_scan.pdf
2 pages · encrypted attachment
Where do your important documents live today?
Almost certainly in three places, none of them built to keep a secret.
Scattered in your camera roll
Your passport sits between a lunch photo and a screenshot, unsearchable, un-backed-up, one lost phone from gone.
Buried in your inbox
The signed lease is an attachment in a thread from two years ago. You will not find it the night you need it.
Copied across every cloud
iCloud, Drive, Dropbox: the same sensitive files mirrored onto servers other people administer, and can be compelled to open.
The things that prove who you are deserve better than good enough. Secludere gives them a proper vault.
One vault, on every
Apple device you own.
Native for macOS and iOS, built with the same encryption core. Scan on your iPhone, file it on your Mac, and it is already there, encrypted, the moment you turn on sync.
SecludereAll Documents
US Passport
Identity
Mortgage Deed
Property
Health Insurance
Health
Last Will
Legal
Tax Return 2024
Finance
US Passport
United States · Identity
Library
US Passport
Identity
Insurance
Health
Tax 2024
Finance
The full vault
Three panes: folders, your documents, and every extracted field of the one you opened.
Expirations, watched
Passports, visas, insurance, sorted by what lapses first, with reminders before it does.
Locked until it is you
A glance opens it. The key never leaves the Secure Enclave on your device.
Three steps, then you can forget it is there.
How it worksCreate your vault
Choose a master password. Write down the 24-word recovery phrase Secludere generates on your device. That is the entire setup, no email, no account.
Bring your documents in
Scan with the camera, drag a PDF, or share from Files. On-device OCR makes every word searchable; optional AI tags it and pulls out the fields.
Open it with a glance
Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID unlock the vault in an instant, so strong security never means retyping a password fifty times a day.
The work is automatic. The control stays yours.
It reads your documents so you never retype them.
On-device text recognition makes every page searchable. Scan a passport and its number, name, nationality, and expiry fill in straight from the machine-readable zone, verified digit by digit on your device. Turn on AI and Secludere classifies anything else and lifts out the fields with your own Anthropic key. Only recognized text is ever sent, never the image.
Nothing important lapses on your watch.
Set an expiry on any document and Secludere watches it for you, with local notifications weeks or months ahead. No more discovering an expired passport at the airport.
Yours by your face, or your fingerprint.
Face ID, Touch ID, and Optic ID unlock the vault. An auto-lock timer seals it again the moment you step away.
A 24-word phrase only you hold.
The same BIP39 standard hardware wallets use. There is no “forgot password” link, and that is exactly the point.
End-to-end across your devices.
Switch on iCloud sync and your vault mirrors to your other devices, encrypted before it leaves. Apple only ever sees ciphertext. Off by default.
Your own safety copy, in one file.
Optional, and purely for peace of mind. A backup saves everything in your vault into a single file. Make one, and if your iPhone or Mac is ever lost, stolen, or simply stops working, you can put every document back on a new device, exactly as it was. You lock the file with a password you choose, so it is useless to anyone who finds it, and you keep it wherever you trust: a hard drive, a USB key, your own cloud. No iCloud needed, and Secludere never has to be involved.
What it is
One file with a copy of your whole vault.
Why bother
Get everything back if a device is lost or breaks.
Who can open it
Only you, with the password you set. No one else.
My-Vault-Backup.sclbk
Locked with your password · restores on any device
Find anything in seconds.
Folders and favorites to organize how you think, then search by title, type, field, note, or a word buried in a scan. Every search runs on your device.
It isn’t a feature. It’s the architecture.
Zero-knowledge means we are technically incapable of opening your vault. Not as a policy. Not contractually. Architecturally. Here is what that buys you, and the mechanism behind each line.
Read the full security modelWe are unable to read your files.
Your key is derived from your master password with PBKDF2-SHA256 at 600,000 iterations. We hold no master key, and the derivation only runs one way.
Encrypted before it touches the disk.
Every document is sealed with AES-256-GCM; the vault database itself is SQLCipher. At rest, there is nothing in the clear.
Nothing leaves your device by default.
Secludere is local-first. iCloud sync is opt-in and end-to-end encrypted, the decryption key never leaves your device, and Apple only ever stores ciphertext.
No one watches how you use it.
No analytics, no crash reports phoning home, no third-party SDKs. Zero telemetry, as a property of the build, not a promise in a policy.
AI runs only when you ask it to.
Off until you add your own Anthropic key. Then only recognized text is sent, never the image, under a zero-retention agreement, so it is never used for training.
Recovery belongs to you alone.
A 24-word phrase generated on your device and shown to no one else. Lose both it and your password and the vault stays sealed forever. That is the feature, not a bug.
Your backup is yours alone too.
Export the whole vault as one file sealed with AES-256-GCM from a passphrase you choose. Keep it off iCloud, anywhere you like, and restore it on any device. Openable by no one but you.
From the Latin sēclūdere, “to lock away.” The oldest instinct there is: to put the precious thing somewhere only you can reach.
Look closer at the last syllable. dere is de re, a phrase from Latin law and philosophy meaning “about the thing itself.”
Seclu·de re: locking away the thing itself. Not a description of your documents. Not a copy. The originals, sealed.
Straight answers.
The honest kind, including where the trade-offs are.
You unlock the vault with your 24-word recovery phrase, then set a new password. If you have lost both, no one can open it, including us. That is the entire point of the design.
No. Files are encrypted on your device with a key derived from your master password. We never receive your password, your keys, or your files. We are technically incapable of decrypting them.
Only where you choose. Secludere is local-first, and it can export your whole vault as a single encrypted file sealed with a passphrase you pick, which you keep anywhere and restore on any device. Turn on iCloud sync and it also mirrors, end-to-end encrypted, to your other Apple devices.
Those services hold readable copies of your files on servers their staff administer, and which can be compelled to hand them over. Secludere stores ciphertext only. Even with sync on, the key to decrypt it never leaves your device.
Only if you opt in with your own Anthropic key, and even then only the recognized text is sent, never the image, under a zero-retention agreement so it is never used for training. Leave AI off and nothing ever leaves the device.
Both. Secludere is native on macOS and iOS, sharing the same encryption core, so you can scan on your iPhone and file on your Mac. iPad uses the same multi-column layout as the Mac.
Your vault is local and the app keeps working without us. The format is standard encryption, and because you hold the recovery phrase, you are never locked out by a company you no longer depend on.
Your private vault for
valuable documents.
Free to download. No account to create. Your vault is sealed the moment you set your password, on your Mac and your iPhone.
macOS 13+ · iOS 16+ · iPadOS 16+