What's New
Release notes for SkinVault. We dogfood our own app. We audit what we find. We tell you.
New
Credits and tokens -- pay for what you actually use
We rebuilt how SkinVault's purchasing works from the ground up. The previous model locked you into a subscription before you could see any results. The new model doesn't.
How it works: scanning is free. The free scan tells you exactly how many photos were flagged and what risk categories they fall into -- you get the count, the breakdown, and the confidence numbers before spending anything. Tokens unlock the actual photos so you can see which ones the AI found and act on them.
Photo tokens and video tokens are separate because video analysis is more compute-intensive and works differently (frame-by-frame). That cost difference is reflected honestly in the pricing rather than bundled and hidden.
What you can buy:
- Peek ($2.99 one-time) -- reveals the 4 highest-risk photos. No subscription needed. Good if you want to check before committing.
- Weekend Boost ($5.99 one-time) -- 1,000 photo tokens for a quick library clean-up.
- Deep Clean ($24.99 one-time) -- 5,000 photo tokens. Tackle a large backlog in one go.
- Video Pack ($7.99 one-time) -- 500 video tokens. Works with or without a subscription.
- Catch-Up ($49-$149 one-time) -- 10k, 25k, or 50k photo tokens for libraries over 10,000 photos.
- Standard subscription ($6.99/mo intro, then $12.99/mo) -- 1,500 photo tokens per month, rolling in weekly (375 per week) so you don't have to ration.
- Pro Bundle subscription ($9.99/mo intro, then $19.99/mo) -- 3,000 photo tokens plus 500 video tokens per month, Live Protection background scanning, and video analysis (beta).
Unused tokens from one-time purchases don't expire while your subscription is active. You can layer packs on top of a subscription or use them standalone -- either way works.
Proactive Security
We found a phone-home we didn't want. We closed it.
Privacy is the product. That means we hold ourselves to a standard higher than "technically fine" -- and we audit our own app's behavior to enforce it. When we reviewed SkinVault's network activity for this release, we found a channel we hadn't intended to keep.
expo-updates had been configured to check Expo's CDN for a JavaScript bundle update on every launch. To be precise about what that was: a one-way, inbound-only channel. The app reached out to Expo's servers, asked whether a newer bundle was available, and downloaded it if so. No user data left the device -- this was not exfiltration. Your photos and scan results were never involved. The channel only ever carried verified, signed code inbound.
Benign in practice. Not acceptable by our standard. A privacy app that contacts a third-party CDN on every launch -- even just to check for code updates -- is inconsistent with "nothing but Apple touches the network." So we removed it.
As of v1.1.0, SkinVault does not contact Expo's servers. The app updates only through the App Store. We're telling you this because we found it ourselves, and because the credibility of our privacy promise depends on reporting the things we remove, not just the things we never added.
If we find something else, we'll tell you here.
Proactive Security
On-device temp files now clean up without needing a restart
We dogfood SkinVault on our own devices -- that's how this one surfaced. Temporary files created during scanning were accumulating on-device between sessions. They were cleaned up when you restarted the app, but not before -- so a long-running session could bloat your device's local storage unnecessarily.
To be precise: these files never left your device. This was a local resource management issue -- similar to a memory leak, but for disk space. Nothing about your photos or scan results was exposed. The files stayed on your device the whole time, just longer than they should have.
We confirmed the behavior, shipped the fix. Temp files are now cleaned up promptly after each scan session. No restart required.
Updates
JavaScript dependency updates
Routine updates to JavaScript dependencies. No user-facing changes.
Launch
Initial release
SkinVault launches on the App Store. On-device AI scanning using ONNX Runtime and Apple's Neural Engine. Your photos never leave your device.