X's Messaging App, Xchat, May Be Available Soon

XChat is now connected nan App Store, wherever its listing says that it’s expected to beryllium disposable for download connected April 17. This isn’t nan aforesaid IRC app from nan early aughts, which you whitethorn retrieve if you’re of a definite age. This is simply a messaging app specifically for X users. X main Elon Musk first talked astir rolling retired a caller type of his societal network’s nonstop messaging characteristic successful mid-2025. In a bid of posts backmost then, he said nan caller type would beryllium encrypted and would characteristic a “whole caller architecture.” He besides said each X users were getting XChat successful June past year, but Musk is beautiful infamous for being overly optimistic astir timelines.

Now, alternatively of an upgraded DM characteristic connected X, users are getting a standalone app. It allows them to chat pinch anybody connected X and telephone each different crossed devices. The app is end-to-end encrypted and will fto users edit and delete their messages for each participants successful nan conversation. It will besides let users to artifact screenshots and alteration disappearing messages if they want nan delicate specifications they nonstop in-chat to vanish wrong 5 minutes. The app allows users to create monolithic group chats pinch up to 481 members, arsenic well. X promises successful nan App Store listing that XChat will not person ads and will not beryllium search users.

Users tin now pre-order XChat for iPhones and iPads truthful that it automatically downloads connected their instrumentality erstwhile it comes out.