Elon Musk's XChat messaging app scheduled to be released on Friday

Elon Musk's XChat messaging app is scheduled to be released on Apple’s App Store on Friday, a long-awaited app that the billionaire hopes to shake the dominance of WhatsApp and Signal after his acquisition of Twitter in 2022.

The standalone app supports end-to-end encrypted chats and file sharing, and according to its official X account, has no ads and no tracking.

It also allows users to edit, delete, or make messages disappear, and features screenshot blocks. 

Musk has long been praising Tencent’s (0700) all-in-one messenger WeChat, saying he would transform the social media platform X into a Western WeChat.