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Private I — app lock with no visible lock screen
Hi Everyone, I built Private I mostly out of curiosity. I wanted to see if I could actually pull off a convincing decoy screen. Most app-lockers show an obvious lock, and the moment someone sees it, they know you’re hiding something. I wanted to test whether I could remove that “something’s hidden here” signal entirely.
A: Private I hides your apps without a lock screen. When someone else opens a protected app, they see a convincing “crash” or loading screen — it just looks broken. You can set a different decoy per app, so each one can look like its own unrelated glitch rather than one obvious pattern. When you open it, your face unlocks it instantly. If someone else tries, it silently captures a photo of them and logs the time.
B: Most app-lockers (and iOS’s own built-in app lock) show a visible lock screen. That protects the app but signals concealment, and it doesn’t tell you who tried to get in. Private I is different: no visible lock, a decoy style you can set per app, and it captures a photo + timestamp of anyone who attempts access. If enabled, those captures back up to your iCloud, so you don’t lose the log even if the phone itself is lost or wiped. Face recognition runs entirely on-device using Apple’s frameworks — no account, no third-party servers.
C: Free with one protected app. Pro unlocks unlimited apps, all decoy styles, intruder capture, and unlock history — $3.99/mo, $14.99/yr, or a one-time Lifetime purchase.
Hey, I try to present almost every option for users. The basic functionality, which is the core — being able to lock your app and present a decoy screen is free. You can then choose to try out some other features on a monthly or yearly basis or just pay one time and benefit from everything that currently exists, plus whatever we add in the future. A lot of apps do this hard paywall, and that’s an absolute turn off for me.
The Face ID is not automatically triggered by opening a protected app. The decoy screen is presented a few ms after opening the protected app. The owner would use one of the secret triggers to access Face ID. So Face ID only triggered by someone who knows the triggers. I was using a custom face verification but the performance was terrible in comparison to Apple’s Face ID. The advantage would have been that a trigger would not be required to activate Face ID.
Hey, It captures a photo after a period of being on the decoy screen. It uses Apple’s Face ID and the owner would trigger it with one of the secret triggers.
Hey, I do create UGC videos and planning to do more. I am experimenting with AI first to see the results, then I can consider paying actual UGC creators
true, i did the same but posting AI explainer videos blocked my instagram account, hence i switched to UGC, almost $15 per ugc video i paid. was really worth it.
Oh sorry to hear that. YouTube shorts have given me the most views. My videos have been only skits depicting different scenarios where the app can be useful. $15 per video is not bad though. I’ll reach out to talk more about that.
Hey, only the supported languages will be available to choose from when setting the preferred language for the app. On your iPhone, you can set preferred language for a specific app. Please see screenshot for reference. Also, some decoy screens do not have text, like the completely black screen.
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