What is Hushbox?
Right-click any file or folder in Finder and choose Lock with Hushbox. It stays right where it is, locked. What is inside disappears from Spotlight, Recents and previews until you unlock it with Touch ID or your Hushbox password.
Each locked item is an AES-256 encrypted disk image made with Apple's own tools, so it opens even without Hushbox. The original is deleted only after the locked copy is checked byte for byte.
Hushbox locks itself when the screen locks, the Mac sleeps or after idle time, and asks before closing apps with unsaved work. No account, no cloud.
Free for 24 hours, then $9 once; unlocking stays free. macOS 13 or later.
It all happens in Finder
There is no vault to open and nothing to drag into a window. Your files stay where you keep them, and you lock and unlock them from the right-click menu.
- Lock: right-click a file or folder and choose Lock with Hushbox. It becomes a locked item in the same place.
- Unlock: double-click the item and use Touch ID or your Hushbox password. A folder opens in its own Finder window, and a file opens in its app.
- Lock again: choose Lock Now, or let it happen when the screen locks, when the Mac sleeps, or after the idle time you pick.
- Remove Lock: turns the item back into normal files, with the exact original name.
Open it without Hushbox
If Hushbox ever goes away, your files do not go with it. Rename a locked item so it ends in .sparsebundle, double-click it, enter your Hushbox password, and macOS opens it by itself.
Details
- Free for 24 hours, then $9 once; unlocking stays free
- 2 Macs on one license, free updates
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon and Intel
- Made by Everyday Mac Tools
