mssgs vs Purple.

mssgs is chat for the people you actually talk to. Message your friends, run a community, see who is nearby and play a game right in the conversation. No ads, no tracking, no feed deciding what you see. CHAT YOUR WAY • Direct messages with streaks, voice memos, photos, albums, GIFs and stickers • Ghost mode: switch a DM over and its messages disappear after they are read • One-time photos and videos that are gone once opened • Reactions, replies, polls, mentions and hundreds of stickers • Hide finished chats in an archive behind Face ID or a passcode COMMUNITIES • Servers with channels, categories, roles and permissions • Plan events with a list of who is coming, and set reminders • Voice rooms with push-to-talk, raise hand and a soundboard • Moderation that puts the community in charge: reports, mutes and bans • Make a channel readable on the web CALLS • Voice and video calls, one-on-one or with a group • End-to-end encrypted whenever everyone's app supports it, with a lock on screen that tells you • Share your screen LIVE MAP • See your friends on a live map, and only the friends you pick see you • Public posts pinned to the places they were taken • Pick exactly who can see you, and stop sharing any time STORIES, FEED AND CAMERA • Post photos, videos and slideshows with a song to your feed or your story • Private stories for up to 50 people • A real camera with live filters, location stickers, text and face lenses • Memories: your own gallery of the moments you kept GAMES • Battleship, Four in a Row, Checkers, Snake, Word Guesser and more, built into the chat • Host a tournament, or invite a friend without an account with a guest link MAKE IT YOURS • Nameplates, avatar frames and profile backgrounds from the decoration shop • Badges you earn, chat themes, and light or dark mode • Premium adds 60 fps screen sharing, 50 MB uploads, 5,000-character messages, extra communities, call reactions and more, paid with credits you buy in the app APPLE WATCH • Read and answer chats, browse the feed and check the map from your wrist • A timer, stopwatch, alarms and a calculator, no account needed SAFE BY DESIGN • No ads and no tracking • Report or block anyone from anywhere, and moderators act on it • Protect your account with a passkey or backup codes as a second factor

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