Back up, then clear your iPhone in one tap.
HakoDrive only offers to remove photos it has confirmed are safe in your box. iOS asks once for the whole batch, and keeps them in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
For iPhone · Android coming soon
Your iPhone is full. Your memories don’t have to go.
HakoDrive backs up your photos, videos and WhatsApp chats, encrypted on your phone before they leave it, then frees the space. Only you hold the key.
End to end encryptedWhatsApp chatsPrivate cameraFamily folders
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iPhone Storage
iPhone125.6 GB of 128 GB used
PhotosWhatsAppOther
4,812 photos are safe in HakoDrive
Free 61.4 GB on this iPhone?
Freed 61.4 GB2,431 WhatsApp items kept
Why HakoDrive
One private box for everything your phone can’t hold.
Chats you can still read.
Export a chat and read it like WhatsApp, with photos and voice notes in place. Export it again later and only the new messages are added.
Folders that fill everyone’s gallery.
Share a folder with family. Each person can have new photos appear in their Photos app by themselves.
We can’t see your files. Nobody can.
Files, names and thumbnails are encrypted on your phone. Search runs on your phone too.
Priced for Asia Pacific.
5 GB free on Basic, 5 GB more when a friend you invite subscribes. Plus is 300 GB for the price of iCloud’s 200 GB.
A vault with its own PIN. And a fake one.
Keep private photos and files behind a separate PIN that is never shown in your gallery, search or Files. If someone makes you open it, a second PIN opens a decoy vault instead. Get a wrong PIN, and the front camera quietly takes their photo.
Scan a receipt. Find it by any word on it.
Scan documents into PDFs, and search photos for “beach” or “passport”. The reading happens on your iPhone, so we never see a word.
Private camera
Photos that never touch your camera roll.
Shoot receipts, IDs, documents or private moments inside HakoDrive. They go straight into your encrypted box: not into Photos, not into iCloud Photos, not into shared albums, and not into anyone’s “Recents” when you hand over your phone.
In the app
Simple on the surface. Locked underneath.
How freeing space works
Three steps, and nothing leaves your phone unprotected.
1
Turn on backup
New photos start backing up within seconds while HakoDrive is open, and uploads carry on after you leave the app.
2
Encrypted on your phone
Each file is locked with its own key before upload. The server stores a box it cannot open.
3
Free the space
When the upload is confirmed, HakoDrive offers to remove the copies from your iPhone. You see how much you saved.
WhatsApp
Clear WhatsApp. Keep the conversation.
WhatsApp is often the biggest thing on a phone. Save a chat to HakoDrive, delete the media from WhatsApp, and still read every message with its photos.
- Messages as bubbles, photos and voice notes in place, search inside the chat
- Export again any time: new messages are added, nothing doubles
- Keeps older messages even when WhatsApp leaves them out of a newer export
- Each chat in its own place in the Chats tab, apart from your files
Sat, 3 Feb 2024
Photos from the trip6:40 PM
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6:41 PMThe beach looks amazing6:46 PM
Updated · 2 new messages added
Back home safe 🏠10:00 AM
Privacy
What we can see, and what we can’t.
End to end encryption is on for every file and cannot be turned off. If you forget your password, your 24 recovery words open your box.
YourHakoDriveYou
Photos, videos and filesCannot openOpen anywhere
File and folder namesCannot readSearchable on your phone
WhatsApp messagesCannot readRead like WhatsApp
Your passwordNever sent to usOpens your box on a new phone
How much space you useYes, for your planYes
AES-256-GCM per fileArgon2id password keySRP sign in, no password on our server24 recovery wordsFace ID lockTwo step verification
Everything in the box
All of it, at launch.
Photos
- Camera roll backup that starts within seconds of a new photo
- Free up space with the amount saved on your iPhone
- Gallery by days, months or years, with a date scrubber
- Albums and favourites, encrypted with the photo
- Private camera with every lens, straight to your box
- Chats tab: one tap opens a saved chat
- Media view for every photo, voice note and document
- Merges new exports, never doubles messages
- Search inside any chat
- Share a chat with family by link or account
- 2 chats free, as many as you like on Plus
- Save a chat as a PDF with its photosPlus
Sharing
- Shared folders with family and friends
- Family folders that save new photos to everyone’s galleryFamily
- Links for anything you choose
- Link password, expiry and download limitPlus
- People sharing checked with a safety code
- View or add permissions per person
- Report and block, built in
Files
- Any file type, with uploads that carry on after you close the app
- Search that runs on your phone
- Smart photo search for what is in a photoPlus
- Document scanner with text you can searchPlus
- Open zip files without downloading the whole zip
- Version history when you replace a file
- Keep folders offline for flights and bad signalPlus
Safety
- Secret vault with its own PIN and a decoy PINPlus
- Wrong PIN photo of whoever triedPlus
- Trash and versions for 7 days, 30 on Plus, 90 on Family
- Password, recovery words, or another phone to get back in
- Recovery words in iCloud Keychain, if you choose
- Approve new devices from one you already use
- Emergency access for someone you trustComing soon
Storage
- 5 GB free, plus 5 GB when a friend you invite subscribes
- 300 GB on Plus, 2 TB on Family shared by 5 people
- A clear warning when your box is full
- Uploads resume on their own when there is space
- Your data stays yours: delete your account and everything goes
Android · coming soon
On Android, HakoDrive can do even more.
Android lets apps reach folders and run in the background in ways iPhone does not. We are building these into the Android app.
Planned
Automatic WhatsApp backup
Pick the WhatsApp folder once. New photos, videos, voice notes and documents back up by themselves, no exporting.
Planned
Restore WhatsApp on a new phone
Keep a copy of WhatsApp’s own backup file in your box, ready to put back on your next Android phone.
Planned
Backup that keeps running
Large first backups continue in the background with a progress notification until they finish.
Planned
Any folder, synced
Downloads, Documents, Telegram or a scanner app folder: choose it and it stays backed up.
Planned
SD card and USB drives
Back up from a memory card, or copy your box to a USB drive for a copy at home.
Planned
Your default gallery
Use HakoDrive as the gallery and camera app, with encrypted folders next to your normal photos.
Founding prices
Start free. Pay less than you expect.
Three plans, one price each, shown in your own currency in the App Store. Plus costs no more than iCloud’s 200 GB plan, with 300 GB. The first 100 people on the waitlist keep their price for as long as they stay.
Questions
Good to know
Can I put a saved chat back into WhatsApp?
On iPhone, no app can put chats back into WhatsApp. HakoDrive keeps them readable for you, with photos and voice notes, after you clear them from WhatsApp. On Android we plan to keep WhatsApp’s own backup file so you can restore it on a new phone.
What if I forget my password?
Your 24 recovery words open your box, and you can keep them in iCloud Keychain. A phone that is already signed in can also let you back in. Because we cannot open your files, we cannot reset your password for you.
Does HakoDrive back up in the background?
New photos back up within seconds while the app is open or still running. iPhone limits background work for every app, so a closed app catches up the next time you open it, or overnight while charging.
What happens to things I delete?
They go to Trash in your box, on every device, and you can restore them: for 7 days on Free, 30 days on Plus and 90 days on Family. Older versions of a replaced file are kept for the same time. Photos removed from your iPhone by Free up space stay in your box.
What is the decoy vault?
Your vault opens with your PIN. You can also set a second PIN that opens a different vault with harmless things in it, for times someone pressures you to open it. Nothing on screen shows which one is real.
When does it launch?
We are testing on real iPhones now. Waitlist members get access first, in the order of the list.
Join the waitlist
Get your box before everyone else.
Early access, 5 GB free, and the founding price for the first 100 people.