appreviewpros.com News, on April 12th, Elon Musk’s standalone messaging app XChat is now available for pre-order on the Apple App Store and will officially launch on April 17th (next Thursday). The promotional tagline is quite bold: end-to-end encryption, no ads, no tracking, and no phone number registration required.
The App Store page shows XChat as a standalone messaging app separate from the X platform, compatible with iOS 26 and above, 175.8MB in size, and rated 17+. Developed in Rust, the app focuses on private communication. Besides text and image messages, it supports voice/video calls, self-destructing messages, two-way deletion, post-sent editing, screenshot blocking, group chats, and file sharing.
The launch of XChat aligns with Musk’s long-term goal: to create a WeChat-like “super app” for the Western market.
However, the app’s security is questionable. Musk claims XChat uses “Bitcoin-style encryption,” but security researchers believe this is misleading. Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography to verify transactions, not to protect private communications between two people; these are fundamentally different issues.
Apple’s official information indicates that XChat collects location, contact information, search history, and user identifiers, which contradicts its “no tracking” claim. Furthermore, the application currently does not incorporate any independent third-party encryption security audits, making its privacy promises essentially self-promotion.
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