RevaultExport a portable encrypted .qvault backup and keep its recovery key separately. Restore your files without a Revault account.
Download RevaultSecurity modelA lost phone should not be your only copy of an important document. An encrypted backup carries your files outside the app, while your recovery key provides the separate secret needed to unlock them. You need both to recover a backed-up vault.
On iOS and Android, the more icon at the top of the pattern screen opens Restore vault and Receive a vault from another phone. Both open the verified .qvault importer: choose a backup or transfer file and enter its separate recovery or transfer key. This does not reveal or unlock existing vaults.
Export a .qvault backup from an unlocked vault and save it somewhere you control. The package contains an authenticated encrypted inventory and encrypted file segments. Download cloud-only files before preparing a complete native backup.
A recovery key unlocks encrypted vault key material; it does not contain your files. A backup contains the encrypted files; it is not a substitute for keeping the recovery key. Store them separately and protect both from loss.
Native imports authenticate the package before creating a new vault with fresh identifiers and encryption keys. Set its new device pattern and save the new recovery key. Check file counts and open important files before removing the source copy.
On iOS and Android, the more icon at the top of the pattern screen opens Restore vault and Receive a vault from another phone. Both open the verified .qvault importer: choose a backup or transfer file and enter its separate recovery or transfer key. This does not reveal or unlock existing vaults.
Your local pattern unlocks this device. Your recovery phrase unlocks the vault’s encrypted key material. Your backup contains the encrypted files themselves. None of these substitutes for all the others. A recovery phrase cannot download a deleted file from nowhere, and an intact backup is unreadable without its matching recovery secret.
Save the .qvault package outside the device whose loss you are planning for: for example, in storage you control that remains accessible from another device. Keep the phrase separately so a single compromised folder does not contain both pieces. Before exporting, download any files that are not yet present locally and allow enough free space for preparing the package.
Restore a backup while the source vault still exists. Confirm the expected number of files, open representative photos and PDFs, and check folders and names. A restored native vault gets fresh encryption keys and identifiers; save its newly issued recovery phrase. Keep the source backup with its original recovery secret: restoring does not rewrite that older package.
No. Revault generates one recovery phrase containing 18 random words during vault creation. Save it before continuing. The apps do not offer a custom phrase or a regenerate action. Existing vaults with older custom phrases or hexadecimal keys remain recoverable with their original secrets.
No. Restoring creates a new vault with fresh keys, while the original backup still opens with its original recovery secret. Revault cannot retrieve or rewrite backup files stored elsewhere. Keep each backup and its matching secret safe.
Authentication detects missing or altered encrypted data; it is not a repair service. Keep more than one independently stored, verified backup if the files matter, and retain the matching recovery material. Revault does not hold a reset key.
Choose the settings that fit your files, and keep a recovery plan before you rely on a single device.
Download RevaultCreate separate encrypted spaces on your phone. Each pattern opens only its matching vault, without a Revault account or sign-up.
Choose private iCloud or Google Drive sync, or Pro Revault Cloud for iPhone and Android together. Keep other vaults entirely local.
Move a vault to another phone with an encrypted transfer file and a separate transfer key, including when switching between iOS and Android.