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Concealment app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 7152 ratings )
Utilities Entertainment
Developer: Lakeside Llama LLC
1.99 USD
Current version: 1.8, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 23 Sep 2011
App size: 53.27 Mb

We all have heard that a picture can hold a thousand words, but why not secrets? Have you ever wanted to send something to your friends or romantic partners secretly without anyone else knowing? With Concealment these questions are answered!

Concealment allows one to take a picture and hide inside of the image a secret message and up to three hidden images. These images can then be stored on the in app photo library, the device photo library, iMessaged (iOS 5), or be emailed directly to whomever one is sending the message to.

Anyone viewing the photo now will just see a plain innocent picture, while only the people you tell will know the secrets that lie within. To view the secret within, the recipients must have Concealment or its Lite version. For enhanced security, one can place a password on the hidden contents of the image to further hide your secret.

Features:
-Select any picture from the clipboard, device photo library, or from the camera to hide a secret inside!
-Compose a message of any length to hide inside of the image, away from prying eyes!
-Add an additional three images to hide inside of the base image to share those precious moments!
-Secure your secret with a password!
-One can choose whether or not to watermark their image to let others know a secret is inside!
-Custom watermarks for increased customization!
-Store the created secret image inside of the in app photo library to hide the hidden image from the device photo library. From here, besides viewing the image, you can send the image to someone over email or save it to the device photo library.
-Share your secret by sending the created image through email or iMessage (iOS 5) to your friends or loved ones!
-If your friends or loved ones don’t have this app, they can download Concealment Lite for free, to view any messages/images that you send them!
-When viewing a secret that has been sent to you from someone else’s picture, you can save to your photo library any of the hidden images for later viewing!
-No Ads!
-Universal app for iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone!

With Concealment, you are able to give your friends or loved ones a message and up to three images or view a secret sent to you, without anyone else ever suspecting a thing.

Feel free to send me any suggestions that you may have for the app or any questions that you may have. Any reviews would be much appreciated!

Note: For this app to read any photos from the device photo library and to save the secret inside of the image, location services must be turned on. This is needed to grant the app access to the photo library. This app does NOT collect your location information in any way. Any image processing will cause the hidden message/image to be lost. To share images, use email and select “Actual Size” when sending. For texting the image, only iMessage will keep the concealed message intact, regular text messaging modifies the image.

*DISCLAIMER: Note that Concealment is meant for personal recreational use and not for professional use. Sending personal information such as credit card numbers and other sensitive data is not recommended. Anything that you hide inside of an image is done so at your own risk and at your own choice and we cannot be held responsible.

Pros and cons of Concealment app for iPhone and iPad

Concealment app good for

I think if you really have some things you want to share with people, but to many people handle your (or the recipients) phone, this is for you. Sort of like super secret messaging with password protection if someone manages to start the app. All-in-all, if you need that layer of protection, this is the best way to do it. As for me, I dont really need the privacy but it still has a real cool novelty factor. [Disclaimer: I was gifted this app for working on the art for it, but these opinions are genuinely mine.]
I would say the app was pretty awesome before this latest update but this update which brings in compatibility with iMessage makes it amazing! Before you could only email the secret messages but now you can text message them between iPhone and iPad users. This makes it so much easier to transfer secret images. Would recommend this app to others! Im using iOS 5.
This app may not be something to store your social security number in, but its a fun app that allows you to hide messages and pictures. Its really fun that you can hide pictures and notes and save them into your library and nobody has any idea :) I would recommend this app to anyone the idea behind it is pure genius! With the new update it allows you to use it in iMessage which makes it that much more fun. All glitches that may have been present before have been fixed and the app has been perfected :) I love it.

Some bad moments

I have been eagerly awaiting a good steganography (Google it) app for the iPad. This app is a good start, but it is not a mature product yet. The app does have issues that might render it useless for some people. I sincerely hope these issues are resolved in the near future. Those issues are: 1. Regardless of the dimensions of the original image, this app ALWAYS saves the resulting image with dimensions of 768 x 1024. Very undesirable. 2. Due to problem #1, images might be stretched/distorted when they are saved. Especially if the original image was in landscape orientation or smaller than 768x1024. This is 2011, no excuses for images to be unintentionally distorted. 3. This app has one watermark option. Custom watermarks are not supported. Very undesirable and inflexible. 4. No full disclosure of the algorithm/s used to secure the data within an image. Does it use DES? Triple DES? AES? 5. It does not provide a hash (MD5 or SHA) to verify the integrity of a saved image later on. This app does have some entertainment value for sharing secret messages with friends. It is not yet ready to be used professionally to secure sensitive data.