

Telegram – cloud-based instant messaging app with end-to-end encryption that allows users to send messages, photos, videos, audio messages and files. Wickr Me – a messaging app that allows users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, including photos, videos, and file attachments. According to Wired, Signal is the one messaging app everyone should be using. Signal – an encrypted communications app that uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages which can include files, voice notes, images and videos, which can be set to disappear after a set period of time. Photos and videos created on Snapchat are called “snaps.” Approximately 1 million snaps are sent per day. The app allows users to send messages and media (including words and emojis appearing on the media) that disappear after a set period of time. Snapchat – both a messaging platform and a social network. The following is a list and description of several popular ephemeral messaging apps.


Messaging apps, like all apps, are changing. End-to-End Encryption – also known as E2EE, this is a type of encryption where only the communicating parties can decipher the messages, which prevents eavesdroppers from reading them in transit.Messages can last for seconds or days, unless the receiver of the message takes a “screenshot” of the message before its disappearance. The duration of the message’s existence is set by the sender. Ephemeral Messaging Apps – are a subset of Messaging Apps that allow users to cause messages (words or media) to disappear on the recipient’s device after a short duration.Unlike text messages, these apps rarely have monthly billing records or records showing when messages were sent or received. These apps include iMessage, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger. With some apps, a user may send messages from multiple devices. Messaging Apps – allow users to send messages not tethered to a mobile device ( e., a phone number).

Generally, mobile carriers do not retain the contents of SMS messages, so the records will only show the phone number that sent or received the messages and the time it was sent or received. Twenty-three billion text messages are sent worldwide each day. These messages are sent using the mobile phone carriers’ network.
