Tired of Messages and WhatsApp and ready to try something new? Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new Bitchat Mesh app has landed on the iOS App Store, while an Android version is available on GitHub.

One app promotes itself as a way to discuss sensitive negotiations and human resources problems without leaving a digital record. Another boasts that disappearing messages “keep your message history ...

Jack Dorsey — Twitter, Bluesky, and Square co-founder and Bitcoin evangelist — is now taking on the world of private messaging apps. Announced earlier this week, Dorsey's latest project is called ...

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Signal is a secure messaging app that encrypts all communication from end to end, making all data accessible only to the ...

Future Tense Secure Systems, founded by software pioneer John McAfee, has released a new private messaging app, CHADDER, designed to let users send private, encrypted messages. The messages are so ...

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You can message someone on Instagram through the platform's direct messaging feature, which lets you reach out to anyone with ...

It was really a matter of when, not if, Instagram would launch a private messaging service, given the success Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Kik. On Thursday, the Facebook-owned company answered that ...

A proposed EU law that would allow authorities to bypass encryption to scan private chat messages for criminal content is ...