Dashcam Vault app icon

Your Tesla records everything.
Keep what matters — safely, on your Mac.

Built for the day you need it.

When someone hits your parked car, a stranger tries a door handle at 2 a.m., or a stranger runs and leaves you the bill, the footage is already overwriting itself. Dashcam Vault finds it, plays it from the exact moment, and keeps a verified copy before it's gone.

Buy Direct — $9.99 Pending App Store review
$9.99 one-time · no subscription · requires macOS 14 or later.
Doesn't play encrypted Tesla footage. If your car has "Encrypt Dashcam Recordings" turned on (2026.20+), Dashcam Vault still backs those clips up byte-for-byte, but can't play them — only Tesla's own tool can. Turning encryption off in the car means new footage plays here immediately, which matters most right after an accident or break-in, when you need it fast.
🔒 Nothing on your drive is ever changed or deleted.
The Inbox

Understand your drive, in plain English.

Connect the drive and Dashcam Vault reads it for you — a scan, then an inbox of what happened and why, not a folder of timestamps.

Every event, explained

Sentry events show up with a plain-language reason — "Something came close," "Bump or impact detected," "You honked" — instead of a filename. Recent driving, the rolling minutes that overwrite themselves, surfaces first: that's where unsaved footage usually lives. One filter button and a Select mode keep triage fast without burying the list in controls.

Sentry inbox Plain-language reasons Recent driving rescue
Dashcam Vault — Drive
▽ Filter Select
REAR
Mon 2:11 AM
Mountain View, CA
Bump or impact
✓ FRONT
Sun 6:42 PM
San Jose, CA
Came close
LEFT
Sun 6:40 PM
Palo Alto, CA
Recent driving
Playback

Press play. Land on the moment.

Selecting an event starts playing on its own — cued about ten seconds before whatever tripped it, with a red marker on the timeline showing exactly where. Most viewers leave you to scrub around and guess.

No hunting for the moment

Open an event and it's already playing, backed up just far enough to give you the run-up — the approach, the honk, the second before impact. A red tick on the timeline marks the exact frame that triggered the event, and a full keyboard flow gets you through the rest: arrows to step, 1–7 for a camera, Space to pause, M to jump back to the moment.

Auto-play on open ~10s lead-in Marked on the timeline
Dashcam Vault — Playback
FRONT
L PILLAR
R PILLAR
L SIDE
R SIDE
REAR
▶
⚑ Moment
Space ← → 1–7 0 M K D
Any Angle

Click a camera. It fills the window.

All six cameras — seven on a Cybertruck — stay synced on one continuous timeline. Click any tile and it takes over the window, with a fixed strip of every other angle right below it to jump between them.

Every angle, one click away

The full-window view keeps a thumbnail strip of every camera underneath, so switching angles never means losing your place in the moment. Prefer the keyboard? 1 through 7 jump straight to a camera, 0 goes back to all of them.

6 cameras · 7 on Cybertruck Fixed thumbnail strip Full keyboard control
Dashcam Vault — Front, filled
FRONT 2:11:04 AM
Click any thumbnail, or press 1–7 · 0 for all cameras
The Vault

Verified. Deduplicated. Always yours.

Every archive runs a byte-for-byte SHA-256 check against the original, so a copy is provably identical — not just fast. Re-import the same drive later and Dashcam Vault skips what it already has. Delete something and it goes to the macOS Trash, never gone for good. And through all of it, your source drive stays strictly read-only.

✓ Source drive strictly read-only — nothing on it is ever changed or deleted
✓ Verified byte-for-byte with SHA-256, every time you archive
✓ Per-event size, total archived, and free space always shown
✓ Dedupe on re-import — never a duplicate copy
✓ Delete only ever sends to the macOS Trash — recoverable, never gone
Drive Health

A full drive is normal. Losing events isn't.

Tesla's drive is designed to fill up — the car quietly records over its oldest footage to make room for new. That's expected, not an emergency. What matters is whether the clip you needed got archived before its turn came around.

What's actually worth worrying about

Dashcam Vault shows how full the drive is without treating it as a crisis, tells genuine file corruption apart from clips your car encrypted itself, and explains each one calmly instead of throwing a generic error. Recent Tesla firmware can encrypt Sentry and Dashcam clips at the source — Dashcam Vault detects that and says so plainly.

Fullness, explained calmly Corruption vs. encryption 2026 encryption detected
Dashcam Vault — Drive Health
USB Drive93% full
93% full — normal for a Tesla. Oldest clips get overwritten first.
✓ 1,187 clips verified and healthy
✕ 4 clips corrupted — explained, safe to skip
ℹ 38 clips encrypted by your car (2026 firmware)
Real-World Ready

Handles the drive you actually have.

Tesla drives are messy in the field — partial recordings, the odd corrupt file, drives that get unplugged mid-scan. Dashcam Vault is built around that reality, not a clean demo.

✓ Partial final minutes finish cleanly — no dropped frames, no gaps
✓ Corrupt or zero-byte clips show as labeled placeholders — never a crash
✓ Unplug the drive mid-scan and replug it — picks up right where it left off
✓ Field-tested on real drives running 93% full
Sharing

Share what happened.

Export a single clip and hand it off the way you'd hand off any file — no upload, no account.

Straight to the people who need it

One export, one .mp4, named with the date, time, and camera — ready for an adjuster or a police report. Time, date, and location travel with it, the facts an insurance form asks for.

Mail · Messages · AirDrop Time, date & location
Export
Tesla Sentry 2026-07-21 2.11 AM — Front.mp4
✉️ Mail
💬 Messages
📡 AirDrop
ℹ

Tesla's new encryption, explained honestly.

Starting with firmware 2026.20, Tesla can encrypt Sentry and Dashcam clips at the source. Dashcam Vault detects encrypted clips, tells you plainly what's going on, and still archives them byte-for-byte — but playback only works on unencrypted footage; encrypted clips need Tesla's own tool to view. It's a limit every third-party app on this platform shares; we'd rather explain it than pretend it away. If footage speed matters to you — right after an accident or a break-in — switch "Encrypt Dashcam Recordings" off in your car so new clips play here the moment you plug in. A 30-second in-app guide walks through it.

How It Compares

Built past where the free tools stop.

Tesla's web viewer

Opens one clip at a time. No drive scan, no events, no archive.

Free viewers

Show what's on the drive today. Once Tesla deletes it, it's gone.

Dashcam Vault

Keeps your whole camera history safe for the day you need it — one $9.99 purchase, not another subscription.

Pricing

One price. Yours for good.

No free tier, no in-app purchases, no subscription — buy directly here or on the Mac App Store once it's live, same $9.99 either way.

Dashcam Vault
$9.99
One-time purchase · no subscription, no accounts
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Grab the notarized Mac app below, then paste the license key from your purchase email into Dashcam Vault → License to unlock scanning your own drive. Sample footage works with no key at all.

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