You have heard of apps like SnapChat where images vanish after 2 minutes or so. There’s a new app now where messages can be similarly wiped off, thus preserving your Online privacy.
Using the Wiper messaging app, all that a user needs to do is to tap “Wipe” & his message is erased instantly, everywhere. Wiper uses patent-pending technology to wipe all sides of a conversation—your phone and your friend’s, as well as any temporary record kept on Wiper servers. Other apps control how long your messages exist. With Wiper, the user gets to decide.
Come to think of it, there’s been a flood of these communication apps & tools recently, all offering completely secure & encrypted calling (Blackphone from Silent Circle) & messaging (Telegram, Wickr, etc.).
Telegram got millions of users after WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook, in part because users jumped ship over privacy concerns. Blackphone is being touted as a revolution in mobile technology because it provides encrypted security for voice, video & text communications.
Wickr offers an encrypted messaging app that allows users to send messages that self-destruct after a set period. The company raised $30 million in Series B funding last month.
The fact that Wiper is now able to follow so soon after this with US $2.5 million in seed funding shows the huge potential & demand in the secure messaging app business.
Like Wickr, Wiper will also let you decide when to destroy messages at the recipient’s end. The app allows for free app-to-app calling anywhere in the world, which isn’t so novel anywhere. All calls & messages are secured & private with end-to-end encryption.
The thing that is “different” about this new app is that you can just tap “Wipe” on your phone to erase text messages & photos from everywhere, recipient’s et all. The app will even tell you if the person at the other end has taken a screenshot or forwarded a photo or video, which is another unique safety feature.
Wiper Inc. was co-founded in Feb 2014 by Alex Hoffman, Manlio Carrelli & Michael Choupak. Carrelli is the company’s CEO, & Hoffman is the VP for Product & Engineering.
Click here to download the Wiper secure messaging app from the App Store. Click here to download it from Google Play.
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