VAULTEK VS20i Biometric Handgun Bluetooth 2.0 Smart Safe Pistol Safe with Auto-Open Lid and Rechargeable Battery (Biometric)

I own 3 biometric safes from other manufacturers, and I have been disappointed with all of them. Common problems with others I've tried include slow and inaccurate bio scans, weak latches, poor power management, and similar issurs. THIS SAFE DOES ALL THIS THE RIGHT WAY! It has 2 secure latches, no gaps in the armor, and no exposed hinges. It gets a fast finger read 9/10 (or better) times QUICKLY and opens. Unlike some other safes, you can mount it easily without separate adapters or kits too...it even comes with screws. Its battery lasts long, recharges, and IT INCLUDES A WALL ADAPTER for continuous charge! The manual is VERY well written too. Perfect size for standard handgun. The greatest issue I've had with other safes is reliable power due to weakening batteries and/or no primary wall power option....I love this safe! Heck, it even tells you the battery level every time you use it anyway. Hands down the last model of safe I'll ever buy, and I'm going to get a second one of these. It even looks cool...buy this safe!

This vaultek is great. I’ve been using mine now for about 4 months on one charge and the battery life is still at 60%. I wanted something quick and safe at the same time. Occasionally the biometric finger scanner doesn’t work on the first try. I’ve noticed that it reads my thumb the best, but you can store over 10 different fingers on it. I’d say it’s a 90% success rate for opening with the first scan. If you need quick access and want to keep others in the house safe, this is a great choice.

This is a quality safe. Instructions are good as well as the APP so far. I highly recommend this product.

This is an awesome unit. We've had it for probably two years and never a problem. Recognizes my fingerprint 9 times out of 10, or better, it's rare for me to get a failed read, and then it's usually dust or something on the reader. It helps to have multiple "takes" of the same finger, different angles and pressures. So pleased, I am buying another Vaultek product, the slider, for the office. The Vaultek units are not cheap, but this one is performing to my satisfaction.

Solid safe. No safe is perfect, but this is as good as it gets for a bedside fingerprint safe.The fingerprint scanning is decent (better than most I have tried). Instead of adding 20 unique fingerprints, I added one fingerprint 20 times which seems to improve accuracy.Customer service is excellent. I purchased in 2018 and registered the warranty on their website. The warranty only lasts for two years, but recently (2023—three years after the warranty expired) I had a problem with the micro-USB charging port. I emailed them and they responded same-day with a paid shipping label, made the repair in under a week, and sent it back at not cost to me.Vaultek makes quality safes and stands by their products.

I've owned a fair number of dedicated handgun safes over the years. This will likely be the second-to-last one I'll ever buy.First, the package. This thing is *heavy*. Some of this is the electronics, but it's nonetheless a lot of steel in a small frame. Supposedly it's the same thickness steel as in GunVault products (16 gauge) but it subjectively feels like a denser, meatier safe. It's black, with a not-unattractive powder coat finish and an understated VaultTek logo on the lid, and lighted numbers and a fingerprint scanner on the top-front. The interior has a high-quality waffle foam layer on the floor, to keep the contents from sitting on bare metal, and there's a nice strong light illuminates the safe interior when it's opened. The product comes with everything: a rechargeable battery (installation is a breeze), a USB charging cable, both mounting hardware and a security cable, a pair of backup keys to get into your safe if it runs out of juice, and instruction manuals.(A quick note about the box. Typically products like this are packaged in cheap, humble cardboard. This thing came in a foam-padded slipcase made from heavy chipboard that was so beautifully designed I half expected a choir of angels to serenade me as I opened it.)The fit and finish is first-rate, and the documentation is terrific -- while the product is aimed at a reasonably tech-savvy audience the manuals don't make assumptions (either good or bad), and guide you through setup at your own pace. The fingerprint scanner is about as good as you'll find on the consumer market (about a 90% successful read-rate under most conditions; the damper and dirtier your hands are, the more trouble the scanner will have reading your prints), and you have the numberpad combination to fall back on. It can connect to your smartphone via Bluetooth, and interact with an easy-to-use app that will tell you safe status (locked/unlocked, humidity, temperature) and let you edit stored fingerprints, adjust settings, remote unlock, and review event history.The only issue I have with it is the size. It's always hard to gauge how big these handgun safes really are without seeing them in the flesh, but on the manufacturer's website there's a picture of this thing holding a pair of handguns -- what looks to be both a full-sized and a subcompact. I'm not sure what dark sorcery they used to get those both to fit, but I can *barely* get a full-sized handgun and a single spare mag into this thing, and even then the top of the slide is kissing the back wall of the safe unless I put the handgun in at an angle. To get something capable of holding a full-sized primary and a subcompact backup, I'll surely need to go up a size, to the manufacturer's VT series.Still, I'm super-impressed with the product, to the point that I'm going to let my wife "inherit" it for her bedside. If all you need is a great gun safe with a one-gun capacity, look no further.

Bought this for a 9mm pistol and it works just fine. It’s really well made and looks nice (if it matters to you - which it might if you have this on a nightstand or dresser). It’s also relatively easy to set up.Biometric fingerprint scanner is flakey. This is not my first pistol safe so I can reasonably say that most fingerprint scanners are flakey. But you have a keypad and manual key to open it. If you are buying this partly for quick access in a self defense situation, I’d practice getting your firearm out using mostly the keypad. The fingerprint scanner is probably going to slow you down in a self defense situation.The only critique I have is the app. I wouldn’t trust it as a locking method. It looks like a templated app most likely put together by a budget company in India. Also - this app is designed to open a safe right? Except it fails to take advantage of biometric security like FaceID. Instead offering a puzzle game unlock from 2008. I’d use it strictly for battery life monitoring. Don’t rely on it for much else.Oh and skip the Biometric 2.0 NanoKey. It’s garbage