Loading page
About this tool
Store personal files as an encrypted local record index.
The Encrypted Local File Vault is a browser-local index for the encrypted files you already keep elsewhere: each record holds a file name and a passphrase hint, saved to this browser's localStorage and never sent anywhere. It is for people who encrypt archives, disk images or document bundles with other software and then lose track of which passphrase belongs to which file. It is a catalogue, not an encryption engine — it does not encrypt, decrypt or store the files themselves.
Open Encrypted Local File Vault on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Type a record's File name and Passphrase hint — write a memory jog, never the real passphrase, since records are plain text in this browser's localStorage.
Press Add record to save it locally; the Search records box then filters across every field of the list.
Use Export JSON to download encrypted-local-file-vault.json as a backup, and Import JSON on another machine to replace the list there.
The record shape is deliberately just a file name and a hint, which keeps the list useful for recall while giving it nothing worth stealing.
The filter matches text anywhere in a record, so a partial file name or a fragment of a hint narrows a long list immediately.
Export writes a readable JSON array you can back up or diff, and import reads it back after a confirmation prompt — replacing the current list rather than merging into it, and keeping each record's existing id — so there is no proprietary format to get stuck in.
No. It stores a text index of file names and passphrase hints only — no file ever passes through it and nothing is encrypted or decrypted here. Use dedicated software such as VeraCrypt, 7-Zip AES-256 or your operating system's disk encryption to protect the files themselves, and use this to remember what you protected.
No — write a reminder, not the secret. Records are saved as plain text in this browser's localStorage under a single key, so anyone with access to the browser profile can read them, and a real passphrase stored there would be no safer than one written on a sticky note.
Everything lives in localStorage in the one browser and profile you used, so it is not synced and not on any server. Clearing site data, using private browsing or switching devices loses the index — export the JSON if the list matters to you.
Only someone using the same browser profile on the same device. Nothing is transmitted, but nothing is password-protected inside the page either — if the machine is shared, treat the index as visible to everyone who can unlock it.