Password protect files with strong encryption on your phone or tablet.
Xecrets Ez is our easy-to-use file encryption app. This repository contains the Android and iOS apps, bringing the same simple approach to file encryption to mobile devices. The apps are entirely free and open source, with no premium features, subscriptions or feature restrictions.
Use Xecrets Ez to encrypt any type of file and to decrypt encrypted files when you need them. Depending on the platform and file type, decrypted files can be viewed directly inside the app. Text files can also be edited in the app and securely re-encrypted when you save them. In-process editing is intentionally limited to text files.
Any type of file can also be opened in a compatible application installed on the phone or shared using the capabilities provided by Android or iOS and the applications installed there.
The Xecrets Ez mobile apps are currently in development and available for closed beta testing. We are looking for beta testers who want to help us test the apps on Android and iOS and provide feedback before the public release.
If you are interested in participating in the beta program, please contact Axantum support.
The mobile apps are entirely free, but developing, testing and maintaining them still takes time and costs money. We suggest the Xecrets Ez desktop app as a useful companion on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Even if you mainly use the mobile apps, we certainly appreciate a subscription to the desktop app. It helps support the continued development and maintenance of both the mobile and desktop Xecrets Ez applications.
The mobile apps work entirely locally on your device. They never connect to the Internet: not during normal operation, not for analytics and not for crash analysis. There are no servers to depend on, no usage tracking and no crash reports sent anywhere. Simply never.
This is the same zero-knowledge approach as the Xecrets Ez desktop app, its big brother for Linux, macOS and Windows. Your files and passwords stay under your control.
The mobile apps are part of the same family as the other Xecrets projects:
- xecrets-net contains the portable open source .NET encryption library used directly by the mobile apps.
- Xecrets Cli uses the same library to provide a free, open source command line tool for people, scripts and software.
- Xecrets Ez for the desktop has a proprietary graphical user interface, while all encryption and decryption is performed through the open source Xecrets Cli.
The shared encryption foundation keeps encrypted files compatible across the Xecrets applications and with AxCrypt file-formats 1.x/2.x/3.x. Encrypt a file on one supported device and decrypt it on another, without tying the file to a particular app, account or storage provider.
AxCrypt is a trademark of AxCrypt AB. Xecrets Ez is an independent product and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by AxCrypt AB.
The Xecrets Ez mobile apps are free software, licensed under the GNU GPL Version 3 or later. The complete source code is available in this repository. There is nothing to buy and no paid edition is required to unlock encryption, decryption, viewing, text editing, opening or sharing.
Copyright and license notices for incorporated third-party material are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.
Android and iOS are the primary platforms. The shared .NET MAUI codebase also includes Mac Catalyst and Windows targets for development and debugging.
Xecrets Ez does not collect or transmit personal data. See the Privacy Policy for details about local file processing, device backup, crash reports and operating-system sharing features.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for build instructions and how to propose changes.
Contact us via our support site or through GitHub.