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POPIA Compliant Β· Zero Cloud Storage

Never get caught
without your ID
again.

Scan your Smart ID, driver's licence, passport and more. Locked by your face or fingerprint. Show any document in 3 seconds flat. Zero data ever leaves your phone.

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No cloud. Ever.
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AES-256 Encrypted
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149 Countries
Zari Vault
Your ID. Your Device
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πŸ›‘οΈ Personal copies stored securely on your device
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ID Card
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Unknown Unknown
ID β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’0000 πŸ”’
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PERSONAL COPY
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Driver's License
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Unknown Unknown
ID β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’0000 Β· ⭐ Premium
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Zari Vault
Your ID. Your Device
πŸ›‘οΈ Personal copies stored securely on your device
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Vault Locked
Authenticate to unlock
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⏱ Auto-close: 28s
πŸͺͺ ID Card
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Front
Back
πŸ›‘οΈ Personal copy, stored securely on your device
TypeID Card
NameUnknown Unknown
ID Numberβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’0000 πŸ”’
Saved2026/04/10
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Countries Supported
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Document Access Time
AES‑256
Encryption Standard
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Data Sent to Any Server
Why Zari Vault

Built for real life,
designed around privacy

From estate boom gates to hospital check-ins, your documents ready before anyone can ask.

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Biometric Lock

Face ID, Touch ID, or a 6-digit PIN. Nobody gets in without your face or fingerprint, including us.

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3-Second Access

Unlock and show any document in under 3 seconds. Estate security, traffic officers, bank FICA, handled instantly.

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Zero Cloud Storage

No upload. No sync. No server. Your documents are encrypted on your device and never leave it.

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149 Countries

Smart ID in South Africa becomes Aadhaar in India, National ID in Kenya, BRP in the UK. Zari adapts.

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Auto-Lock Timer

Documents close automatically after 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Never left open by accident.

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Expiry Alerts

Get notified before your ID, licence or passport expires. Never show up with an out-of-date document again.

What you can store

Every document you carry,
digitised and protected

Tap any document type to see what Zari Vault stores and how it protects it.

Smart ID Card
National Identity
Driver's Licence
Motor Vehicle
Passport
Travel Document
Medical Aid Card
Health Insurance
Vehicle Registration
Licence Disc
Student Card
Academic Access
Proof of Residence
FICA Compliance
Vehicle Insurance
Certificate
Personal Copy
Smart ID
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Doc typeSA Smart ID Card
ID Numberβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
Full nameβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
ExpiryNo expiry
SidesFront + Back
πŸ”’ AES-256 encrypted on device
Personal Copy
Driver's Licence
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Doc typeDriver's Licence
Licence no.β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
CodeCode 8 / Code 10
Expiry5-year renewal
SidesFront + Back
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Personal Copy
Passport
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πŸ”’ AES-256 Β· Zari Vault
Doc typeRSA Passport
Passport no.β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
NationalitySouth African
Expiry10-year renewal
SidesPhoto page
πŸ”’ AES-256 encrypted on device
Personal Copy
Medical Aid
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Doc typeMedical Aid Card
Member no.β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
Schemeβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
Plan typeβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
SidesFront + Back
πŸ”’ AES-256 encrypted on device
Personal Copy
Vehicle Reg.
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πŸ”’ AES-256 Β· Zari Vault
Doc typeVehicle Registration
Reg numberβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
VINβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
ExpiryAnnual renewal
SidesFront only
πŸ”’ AES-256 encrypted on device
Personal Copy
Student Card
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πŸ”’ AES-256 Β· Zari Vault
Doc typeStudent Card
Student no.β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
Institutionβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
ExpiryAnnual renewal
SidesFront only
πŸ”’ AES-256 encrypted on device
Personal Copy
Proof of Residence
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πŸ”’ AES-256 Β· Zari Vault
Doc typeProof of Residence
Addressβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
Issued byβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
Use caseFICA / Banking
SidesFront only
πŸ”’ AES-256 encrypted on device
Personal Copy
Insurance Cert.
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β€’β€’β€’β€’ β€’β€’β€’β€’ β€’β€’β€’β€’ β€’β€’β€’β€’
πŸ”’ AES-256 Β· Zari Vault
Doc typeInsurance Certificate
Policy no.β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
Insurerβ€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’
ExpiryAnnual renewal
SidesFront only
πŸ”’ AES-256 encrypted on device
Privacy architecture

See exactly where
your data doesn't go

Most document apps route your files through external servers. Zari Vault is architecturally different.

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AES-256 encrypt
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stored locally
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Your phone β†’ Encrypted β†’ Stays on your device. Full stop.
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upload
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sync / share
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⚠️ Breach risk · Subpoena risk · Third-party sharing
The reality

Your ID number unlocks your entire life

Bank accounts, credit, SIM registration, property. Once an ID number leaks, fraudsters use it for years, opening accounts and taking loans in your name long after the breach.

Cloud risk

Every server upload is a potential breach

When your documents live on a server, they're exposed to insider threats, hackers, and government orders, regardless of what a privacy policy says. No server means no breach surface.

Your POPIA rights

South Africans have strong data protections

Under POPIA, you have the right to know what data is collected about you, to access it, correct it, or delete it. Any app storing your documents is a data processor, and must notify you of breaches.

Our Story

We built the app we needed ourselves

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Privacy isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

Most document apps upload your most sensitive information to servers owned by companies you've never heard of. We built Zari Vault to be architecturally different. Your documents never leave your device because our infrastructure literally cannot receive them.

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Servers storing your data
149
Countries supported
AES‑256
Encryption standard
R21
Per month (Premium)

Zari Vault was born from a simple frustration: fumbling through a wallet at an estate boom gate, failing to find an expired licence at a roadblock, scrambling for a passport number during online check-in.

We designed Zari Vault to feel like the app that actually lives on your home screen. Fast, clean, and completely private. No account to create, no email to verify, no data to hand over.

POPIA compliant by architecture, not by checkbox. South Africa's data protection law demands better from every app that handles your personal information. Zari Vault was built to exceed that standard.

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Privacy by architecture

We can't access your data because our system is built to never receive it. That's not a promise. It's a technical fact.

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Speed in the real world

Every UI decision is made with one question: can you show your document before the security guard loses patience?

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Built for Africa, used everywhere

Boom gates, roadblocks, FICA compliance, designed around real South African daily friction, with global reach.

The Team

The people behind your vault

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Aiden Khumalo

Co-founder & CEO

Former fintech engineer. Spent 8 years building secure payment infrastructure before deciding identity deserved the same treatment.

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Lerato Phiri

Co-founder & Design Lead

Product designer obsessed with reducing friction. If you can do it in 3 taps, Lerato will find a way to do it in 2.

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Sipho Osei

Head of Security & Compliance

Cryptography specialist. Architected the on-device encryption system and keeps Zari Vault ahead of POPIA and global privacy standards.

Features

Everything you'd expect.
Nothing you wouldn't.

No hidden permissions, no background syncing, no ad targeting. Just a vault that does exactly what it says.

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Smart Document Scanning

Scan front and back of any supported document. Zari guides you and instantly encrypts the result on your device.

8 document types
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Biometric Authentication

Face ID, Touch ID, or a 6-digit PIN. Every document access requires fresh authentication, no exceptions.

Face ID Β· Touch ID Β· PIN
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AES-256 Encryption

The same standard used by governments worldwide. Every document encrypted at rest in your phone's Secure Enclave.

Military-grade
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Auto-Lock Timer

Configure documents to close after 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Never risk leaving sensitive info on screen.

Premium feature
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Document Expiry Alerts

Timely reminders before your ID, licence, or passport expires. Never get caught with an out-of-date document.

Premium feature
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149-Country Support

Your Smart ID in SA is an Aadhaar in India, National ID in Kenya, BRP in the UK. Adapts to your country automatically.

Global coverage
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Secure Clipboard Copy

Copy document details to clipboard with biometric verification required every time. Your data, on your terms.

Premium feature
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Pinch-to-Zoom

Zoom in on any stored document for detailed inspection, perfect for fine print on medical aid cards.

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Custom Nicknames

"Work Passport", "Mum's Medical Aid", "Old Car Disc": organise your vault the way you actually think.

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Pricing

Free to start.
Premium when you're ready.

Your first 3 documents are always free. No credit card. No account required.

Monthly Annual
Free
R0 / forever
No credit card needed
  • Store up to 3 documents
  • Biometric lock (Face ID / Touch ID)
  • AES-256 on-device encryption
  • 149 countries & document types
  • Document expiry alerts
  • Custom nicknames
  • Pinch-to-zoom
  • Configurable auto-lock
  • Clipboard copy (biometric)
Get started free
Real Reviews

What people are saying

From estate residents to frequent travellers. Zari Vault is changing how South Africans carry their identity.

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"I live in a secure estate and show my ID to security twice a day. Zari Vault cut that from 30 seconds of fumbling to literally 3 seconds. I've never looked back."
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Nomsa Mabunda
Estate Resident, Johannesburg
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"Got stopped at a roadblock and had every document: licence, registration, insurance, on screen in under 10 seconds. The officer actually laughed and said 'nice app'."
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Kagiso Dlamini
Sales Executive, Cape Town
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"The custom nicknames feature alone is worth the Premium upgrade. 'Dad's Medical Aid' has saved us twice already at the pharmacy."
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Priya Munsamy
Parent & HR Manager, Durban
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"I'm an expat living between Nairobi and Cape Town. Zari Vault handles my Kenyan National ID and my South African work permit without skipping a beat. Finally an app built for people like me."
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James Odhiambo
Software Engineer, Nairobi / Cape Town
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"I checked the network traffic myself. Zari Vault genuinely sends zero data externally. Nothing. That's extraordinarily rare, and it's why I tell every person I know to use it."
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Thandi Nkosi
Cybersecurity Analyst, Pretoria
FAQ

Questions we get
all the time

If your question isn't here, drop us a message.

Yes, completely. All documents are stored and accessed entirely on your device. No internet connection is required to open, view, or show any document. That's not just a feature; it's a consequence of the zero-cloud architecture.
Your documents are protected by your biometrics and AES-256 encryption. Even if someone has your physical phone, they cannot access the vault without your face or fingerprint. The data is not recoverable without authentication, which protects you, but also means documents can't be remotely restored. We recommend keeping original physical documents safe as a backup.
Zari Vault stores personal copies for reference, not certified legal copies. For most everyday uses (estate access, pharmacies, showing a roadblock officer your details for reference, providing your member number), a phone copy works perfectly. For formal legal or FICA purposes, you'll still need certified originals. Zari Vault labels all stored documents as "Personal Copy" to make this clear.
No, and this is not a promise, it's a technical impossibility. Documents are encrypted on your device before being stored, using keys that only your device holds. Nothing is ever transmitted to our servers because we have no servers that receive document data. We have designed the system so that even if we wanted to see your documents, we couldn't.
Photos live in your camera roll, unencrypted, accessible to any app that requests photo permissions, and synced to iCloud or Google Photos automatically. Zari Vault stores documents in an encrypted vault, locked by biometrics, with an auto-close timer, and completely isolated from other apps and cloud services. It's a fundamentally different security model.
When you open a document to show someone, it shouldn't stay on screen indefinitely. The auto-lock timer (30 seconds to 2 minutes, configurable on Premium) closes the document automatically after a set time. This prevents someone from grabbing your unlocked phone after you've shown a document and scrolling through your vault.
The free plan stores up to 3 documents with full biometric lock and AES-256 encryption. The core security is identical. Premium (R249.99/year, less than R21/month) unlocks storage for up to 10 documents, expiry alerts, custom nicknames, pinch-to-zoom, configurable auto-lock, and biometric-verified clipboard copy. See the pricing section for a full comparison.
Yes, and by architecture, not just policy. POPIA requires organisations to protect personal information and be transparent about its use. Because Zari Vault never collects, processes, or transmits your personal data to any external system, the compliance is structural. We don't need a privacy policy that covers data handling because there's no data handling to cover.
149 countries are supported, with document types adapted per country. Your Smart ID in South Africa becomes an Aadhaar Card in India, a National ID in Kenya, and a BRP in the UK. Supported document types include: Smart ID / National ID, Driver's Licence, Passport, Student Card, Vehicle Registration / Licence Disc, Proof of Residence, Medical Aid / Health Insurance Card, and Vehicle Insurance Certificate.
Get In Touch

We'd love to hear from you

Questions, partnerships, media enquiries. We respond to every message.

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Email

hello@zarivault.app
We reply within 24 hours

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Bug Reports & Support

support@zarivault.app
Include device model and OS version

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Partnerships & Press

partnerships@zarivault.app
Media kit available on request

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