Hippius Mobile App
Introduction
Your Hippius Drive, on your phone. Browse everything you have stored, upload from your camera roll, share a file or folder with a link, and let your photos back themselves up while you get on with your day.
It is the same account and the same files you see in the console and the desktop app. Anything you add on one shows up on the others.
Everything is encrypted on your phone before it leaves it, so what travels to the network and what sits on it is unreadable without your key.
Installing the app
Hippius is on Google Play now (Android). The App Store build for iPhone is coming soon.
On Android, search for Hippius in Google Play, or open hippius.com on your phone and use the Google Play download link there.
Signing in
You do not need an account before you start. Signing in with Google, Github, or Apple creates one for you if you do not have one already.
If you have used Hippius before, sign in with the same details you use everywhere else and your files are there waiting.
- Open the app and swipe through the short introduction (two slides).
- Choose how you want to continue: Google, Github, Apple, or your access key.
- Google, Github, and Apple open a browser sheet where you approve the sign-in and come straight back to the app.
- Your access key is the 12-word recovery phrase from an existing Hippius account. Use this if you already have one.
Your access key is the key to your files, not just a password. Anyone who has it can read everything you have stored. Keep it somewhere only you can reach, and never send it to anyone, including us.
Your unlock password
An unlock password protects an encrypted copy of your mnemonic seed that we store for your account. It is the same password used in the console and the desktop app. It is not your Google, Apple, or Github password.
When you are asked for it depends on the situation:
- New account, first upload. The app asks you to create an unlock password (and, for Google / Github / Apple sign-in, shows your recovery phrase to back up) before that first upload is encrypted.
- Existing unlock password, new phone. After you sign in, the app asks you to enter the password once so it can open your seed on this device.
- Any time from Settings. You can set, change, or restore the password under Settings → Security.
We cannot reset your unlock password or recover it for you. If you forget it, your mnemonic seed can restore access and set a new one. See Restore Access.
Coming back
After the first sign-in the app remembers you. Open it and you land on Overview, with no account password to type. You stay signed in until you sign out yourself.
If you turn on Biometric lock in Settings, the app asks for your fingerprint or face before it opens. That lock is only on this phone, separate from your unlock password.
What you can do
- Overview is your home screen: recent files, how much storage you are using, which plan you are on, and a Camera Uploads promo until you set that up.
- Drive is your files. Browse, search, upload, preview, download, and organise them into folders. See Your Files.
- Camera Uploads backs up your photos and videos on its own. See Camera Uploads.
- Shared links let you send a file or folder to someone who does not have Hippius. See Sharing Files.
Your plan
The app shows which Drive plan you are on and how much storage it gives you (Overview plan card, and Account). Managing subscriptions is not available in the mobile app. Buy or change a plan from the Hippius Console in a browser, signed in with the same account.
You need an active storage entitlement to upload, create folders, or turn on Camera Uploads. Without one the app still signs you in and still shows everything you have already stored, but those actions stop with a storage-unavailable message.
Once you subscribe on the console, the app picks the plan up on its own. Nothing to enter twice.
Where to next
- Your Files: upload, preview, download and organise.
- Camera Uploads: back up your photos automatically.
- Settings: security, biometric lock, Wi-Fi only uploads, appearance, account.