Yes, fully. Your vault lives on your device, so opening, reading, adding and organising your files works with no internet connection at all — on a plane, in a basement, or with Wi‑Fi that’s having a bad week.
An internet connection is used for exactly one thing: syncing changes between your devices. When you come back online, whatever you added or changed while offline is encrypted on your device and then synced. Until then, nothing is waiting on a server to load.
Why it works this way
OutVault is offline-first: the copy on your device is the real thing, not a cached preview of something that lives in the cloud. That’s a deliberate design choice with two consequences worth knowing:
- No connection, no problem. The vault never shows you an empty screen because a server is unreachable. Your files are simply there.
- Sync is an addition, not a requirement. The free app is a complete local vault, and encrypted sync between your devices is free and optional — turn it on when you want it.