Any image taken by you or brought in from Mac/PC immediately gets stored to your phone library. It becomes really awkward if there are private pictures showing up on the image collection. Thankfully, there are some cool apps that hide images on your iPhone.

With the help of these awesome apps, you can password-protect them or hide them regarding a simple calculator. There are also apps that let you lock your images and protected them from prying eyes. However, most of them create a unique folder, where you can move your personal pictures and then use essential steps to hide them. Here’s a rundown of some of the top apps to protect images on your phone.

1. Private Photo Vault

Private Photo Vault is one of the most effective free applications to protect your individual photos and videos by password/pattern-locking. This feature-rich app enables easy album organization by allowing you to transfer pictures and videos from iPhone’s photo app to your new secured album. All you need to do is select photos you want to hide and password-protect them on your private album.

Private Photo Lock has a tri-protect system. You can either hide your photos via a secure password system or use the nifty pattern lock system to lock them up safely. There’s also a pin lock option that lets you hide an image by entering a 4-digit pin.

There are a lot of good additional features, but the function I loved the most is decoy password option. It enables users to enter two passwords – one for the individual picture album and a main password for the normal one. You can then enter the main password if somebody finds this app and tells you show what’s behind the secured album. With a smooth interface and simple yet extremely secured security option, the app is a good way to hide your photos on your phone.

2. SpyCalc

The photo-hiding feature of SpyCalc seems to be motivated straight from a James Bond flick. This awesome gadget lets you hide pictures on your iPhone regarding an innocent-looking calculator. The app works exactly like a normal finance calculator and doubles up as a secret safe where you can type in a number combination to hide/unhide photos.

The free edition is ad-supported, but has all features of the paid version, so there’s no need to buy one, unless you feel ads are a nuisance. With this app, you can take images directly and store them into the calculator app. It also lets you create groups for your hidden photos, ensuring ease in navigation. With an innovative calculator-safe gadget, Spy Calc makes image-hiding fun and exciting.

3. Keep Safe

Free software, Keep Safe has an easy-to-use pin lock program that lets you type in a 4-digit pin to hide them on your phone. A fun inclusion to the app is a nice little private camera feature that lets you take images and hide them directly into the app – No need to take pictures and then import them to the application.

Along with personal pictures, Keep Safe also lets you hide videos as well. All you need to do is open the program, select the media you want to pin-protect and import them to the application. Make sure you delete the picture from your iPhone’s photo app after importing it to the application. You can also create albums into the app and transfer pictures directly to them.

Keep Safe is an awesome little app that gives you total control over your media. It has only one security system, but it is effective enough to hide private pictures.