Elon Musk’s X company has started open beta testing of X Chat, a standalone encrypted messenger for iOS devices. The app can be downloaded via the TestFlight platform, but the initial limit of a thousand participants was exhausted in two hours. After such a hype, the organizers have expanded the quota to five thousand participants, PCMag reports. This is reported by Mediasat, the PromPolitInform portal reports.
xAI product designer Michael Boswell said that the team has been working on the app for several months and now needs feedback from real users. “Over the past few months, we have been quietly developing a standalone X Chat app for iOS… Use it. Test it. We need your feedback,” Boswell wrote on Tuesday on the X social network.
The new app is a separate client for the private messaging tab of the X network, which received a major update in November. Among the features are encrypted chats, media file transfer, password protection, editing and automatic deletion of messages on a timer.
The issue of security remains the central argument in promoting the product. Back in October, on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Musk said that the service is built on a peer-to-peer encryption system similar to that used in Bitcoin and is “the most secure of all messaging systems.”
At the same time, the entrepreneur has repeatedly criticized competitors – in particular, he questioned the reliability of WhatsApp and the security of Signal. In response, WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart called such accusations an attempt to draw attention to his own product through unfounded accusations.
According to the Grok neural network, the Android version of X Chat is also in development and should appear in the near future.
