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Press kit

Everything you need to write about Pearlin: descriptions you can use as they are, the facts, and images. Questions go straight to the developer.

Describing Pearlin

In one line

Pearlin is a private vault for photos and files on iPhone and iPad: encrypted vaults that open with a pattern only you know, with no account.

In a paragraph

Pearlin keeps private photos, videos, documents and other files in encrypted vaults on your iPhone or iPad. Each vault opens with a pattern you draw on a 5×5 grid, and the lock screen never shows how many vaults there are. There’s no account and no Pearlin server: everything is encrypted on the device, and optional backup and sync use your own iCloud. Vaults move to a new phone as one encrypted file, and every vault has a recovery phrase in case you forget the pattern.

What’s different about it

  • A pattern, not a passcode. Apple’s Hidden album opens with Face ID or the phone passcode, so anyone who can unlock the phone can open it. A Pearlin vault opens only with its own pattern and its own key.
  • Nothing to count. Several vaults can sit behind different patterns, and the app never lists them. One vault can be a duress vault that erases the others when it’s opened.
  • No account, no server. No sign-up, no ads and no analytics in the app. The developer can’t open a vault or recover one.
  • Built to be checked. The security model is published in full, including what the app can’t protect against.

Facts

Name
Pearlin
What it is
A private vault: encrypted vaults for photos, videos, documents, notes and any other file
Platforms
iPhone and iPad, iOS and iPadOS 17 or later
Availability
Coming soon to the App Store
Made by
Lakmal Silva, an individual developer based in Sri Lanka
Languages
19, including English, Spanish, Japanese, Hindi and Arabic
Account needed
None
Ads, analytics, tracking in the app
None
Encryption
AES-256-GCM for files, Argon2id for the pattern, SQLCipher for the vault index
Website
www.pearlin.app

Images

Pearlin’s app icon: a pearl rising over dark blue waves
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Pearlin banner: the app icon, the headline “Your private photos and files, behind a pattern only you know.” and a phone drawing a pattern
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Please use the icon as it is: don’t crop it to a circle, recolour it or add effects. Screenshots of the app come with the App Store release; if you need them before then, ask and we’ll send a set.

Contact

For interviews, review access or questions, email support@pearlin.app. You’ll hear back from Lakmal Silva, who builds Pearlin.