No vaults. Just folders.
Hide and scramble ordinary folders without moving them into a vault.
JEP makes locked folders unrecognizable to people and ordinary apps until you unlock them again.
Or try the free tier — lock one flat folder, no signup.
Sometimes you don't need encryption.
You just don't want casual browsing. A roommate borrowing the laptop. A coworker glancing over during a screen share. A folder turning up in search when you're demoing something. JEP hides a few folders and scrambles their files just enough to make them unreadable — quietly, on the same computer, in the same place they already live.
Three steps.
Pick a folder.
Any folder on your computer. It stays where it is.
Hide and scramble it.
JEP scrambles filenames, obscures previews, and changes file-identifying data enough that many ordinary apps treat locked files as invalid until unlocked.
Bring it back when you need it.
Touch ID or a PIN. Everything comes back the way it was.
On macOS, locked folders are removed from Finder and Spotlight.
Honest about the job.
JEP is a casual privacy tool. It's good at keeping ordinary folders out of sight on a computer you share. It is not a security product, and it doesn't pretend to be.
- Casual local browsing
- Shoulder-surfing
- Folders showing up in file browsers
- Results in desktop search
- Accidental discovery
- Forensic recovery
- Other admin users on the computer
- Malware with access to your files
- Anyone determined and technical
- Backups (Time Machine, iCloud, Dropbox) may still hold older, unlocked copies
- Someone poking around in Terminal
A few honest questions.
No. JEP hides folders and scrambles their files just enough to make them unreadable. It's reversible by design — that's how it can be instant on any folder size, and how you can always get your files back.
Encryption is the right tool for high-stakes secrets. It's a heavier tool than most people need to keep a journal or a few projects from turning up in everyday browsing. JEP is for the lighter case.
No. While locked, files may appear invalid or unreadable to ordinary apps. That is intentional and reversible. Unlocking restores them.
No. If someone has admin access to your computer, or you're worried about malware reading your files, you want full-disk or file-level encryption, not JEP.
Touch ID or a 4–6 digit PIN you choose. Bring the folder back briefly, and JEP hides it again automatically after a while.
On macOS you'll see a normal first-run prompt for a direct-download app. Right-click JEP, choose Open, and click Open in the dialog. You'll only see this once. Full install walkthrough.
You can still get your files back. JEP keeps a small recovery file inside every locked folder, and the PIN is recoverable from the local app data — JEP is built so you're not locked out of your own folders.
JEP cleans up the next time it opens. Your files stay intact.
Yes. No subscription. See pricing.
Lock one folder with unlimited files, as long as it has no subfolders. Same engine, same UX, same reversibility as the paid version — just the one-folder, flat-folder limit. No signup, no card, no time bomb. When you outgrow it, paste a license key into Settings and the limit lifts.
14 days, no questions. Email help@justenoughprivacy.com.