VaultPony for Desktop
Open, unlock and browse your VeraCrypt-format containers on the machine where they already live. VaultPony on the desktop runs the same Rust core as the Android app, so a container opens the same on your phone, on your computer, and in VeraCrypt itself. Linux ships for x86_64 and ARM64, as a .deb, a portable tarball or an AppImage. No accounts, no telemetry, no network code at all.
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| Package | Arch | sha256 |
|---|---|---|
| Debian / Ubuntu (.deb) | ARM64 | 12f5ef9706936a5eadd8ebc7a8f4b7342b626a1180adcf10d3cf03d3f34c915f |
| Portable tarball (.tar.gz) | x86_64 | 0bdbb26cf9c19005dcbfbfef13d1737ab7e66dfee916bb76df84c427c5e2b420 |
| Portable tarball (.tar.gz) | ARM64 | b801dcedcc29bc0dddd00c54ab8b9423fd13085ae3d5b5f5ec61555c3eada4ab |
| AppImage | x86_64 | b0b7762e490abcdcba993bb3073831cc47c0458cb5049fbea6f272cd0f9502df |
| AppImage | ARM64 | 6b707d82c7de4508d36e75aa05a64a9992f72c5847d1a08030a2122618085ac9 |
The tarball and AppImage are self-contained and need no install step. Extract and run
bin/VaultPony, or make the AppImage executable and run it. The
.deb installs a desktop entry; the portable builds do not.
First desktop release of VaultPony. Open, unlock and browse your VeraCrypt-format containers on macOS, Linux and Windows, using the same Rust core (VaultPonyCore) that powers the Android app, so a container opens the same on your phone, on the desktop, and in VeraCrypt. No accounts, no telemetry, no network code at all.
The same core your phone runs
The desktop app is built on VaultPonyCore, the exact Rust core that powers VaultPony on Android: the VeraCrypt container format, the cipher cascades, the key derivation. One implementation to audit, not two, and the same containers open across every device.
- VeraCrypt-format containers. Open and unlock the encrypted container files you already have, implemented clean-room from published documentation and tested against real VeraCrypt fixtures.
- Cross-device by design. A vault made on your phone opens on the desktop and in VeraCrypt; a container you already keep on your computer opens in VaultPony.
- Password and keyfile unlock. The whole container is one encrypted file, and only your credentials open it.
- Browse the contents. Work with the files inside a mounted volume from the app's own file view.
- No network permission at all. There is no network code in the app: nothing to phone home, no telemetry, no accounts.
- Open source. The desktop app and the shared core are Apache-2.0, public and readable.
Check what you downloaded
Every artifact ships with a detached PGP signature, and each release carries a signed
SHA256SUMS covering all of them, signed with the NorseHorse release key
(A0CB C8F6 5AAC E56F 1C5B 7677 53F9 798E 4919 DE62).
gpg --verify VaultPony-macOS.dmg.asc VaultPony-macOS.dmg gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc SHA256SUMS sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
.asc files and SHA256SUMS are attached to
the release
alongside the installers, so you can verify before you ever run the thing.What it needs, and what your OS will say
- macOS. macOS 11 or later, universal (Intel & Apple silicon)
- Linux. Debian or Ubuntu, x86-64 (glibc 2.35+)
- Windows. Windows 10 or later, x64
- No runtime to install. The app is a single native binary per platform; there is nothing else to set up.
Read it yourself
The desktop source is published at github.com/norsehorse-dev/VaultPonyDesktop under Apache-2.0, alongside the Android app and the shared VaultPonyCore. The container engine is vendored from the core rather than reimplemented, so there is one implementation to audit, not two.