DatChat vs SagMal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DatChat
This app offers a private social network and messenger with self-destructing, screenshot-protected, and end-to-end encrypted posts and messages. Users can control messages even after sending, create private social groups, and secure photos with advanced encryption.
- Self-destructing messages and posts
- Screenshot protection with notifications
- End-to-end encrypted communication
- Nuke conversations to erase both sides
- Private social groups
- Multiple accounts
- Encrypted hidden photo storage
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DatChat is a private social networking app and messenger that protects your privacy with self-destructing, screenshot protected, encrypted posts and messages. Get the security you deserve. Keep your messages and social posts private, secure, and out of the wrong hands. Our proprietary anti-screenshot protection makes it nearly impossible for others to screenshot messages, posts, or comments - and you will receive a notification that they even tried. Every message you send has an end-to-end encrypted connection. Control over messages doesn’t stop after you hit send - now you have control even after they are sent. “Nuke” conversations on both the sender and recipient’s devices to protect your privacy. You can also unsend messages with ease. Messages will vanish without trace when they reach view limits or are manually destructed. Using DatChat is like having your own private social network. Create Social Groups where only you and the friends you invite to the group can post, comment, and like. Have as many accounts as you like, with whatever friends and family you want. Secure, private messages and pictures are only visible when logged into that respective account. Only your profile picture is available for anyone to view on DatChat. All other photos and information are in a private camera roll, hidden and encrypted behind other pictures. Never worry about picture security again. Download DatChat today and enjoy free, private, and secure social networking. DATCHAT FEATURES: Free, Secure Messaging: - Private messenger protects your privacy - Propriety anti-screenshot protection makes it nearly impossible to screenshot a message, post, or comment - Receive notifications when someone attempts to screenshot messages, photos, or videos - Only the sender & intended recipients can view messages - they cannot be forwarded to others - Every message has an end-to-end encrypted connection Post-Send Control: - Control what happens to messages even after you send them - Self-destructing messages & posts protect your privacy - “Nuke” messages & completely eradicate both sides of a conversation, comments, and more - Messages & posts vanish without a trace when they reach a view limit or are manually destructed Secure Social Networking: - Create Social Groups where only you & your invited friends can post, comment, and like - Group & individual conversations available - Multiple accounts for different friends: messages are visible when logged into that respective account Picture Privacy: - Only the cover photo can be seen in plain sight - Senders can hide pictures and information on the camera roll, hidden & encrypted behind other pictures Download DatChat now to start sending secure, private messages. __ We now offer DatChat Pro at three membership tiers: - Monthly: $0.99, renews every month - Yearly: $9.99, renews annually - Lifetime: $24.99, one-time purchase good for the life of your account DatChat Pro is an optional subscription service that unlocks new features and removes existing limitations. Subscriptions are offered on a monthly, yearly, and lifetime basis. Monthly subscriptions will renew every month for $0.99. Yearly subscriptions will renew annually for $9.99. A lifetime subscription is a one-time payment of $24.99 that does not renew and will upgrade your status to Pro for the lifetime of your account. Prices may vary by location. Any portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Subscriptions are charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Manage your subscription in Account Settings after purchase. Monthly and Yearly subscriptions must be canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period to prevent an auto-renewal. Once purchased, refunds will not be given for any unused portion of the term. Terms of Service: http://www.datchat.net/terms Privacy Policy: http://www.datchat.net/privacy
SagMal
This app prioritizes user privacy with anonymous registration, double-encrypted messaging, and server-side message deletion. It offers features to disguise contact names and photos, making it ideal for discreet communication.
- Anonymous registration (no email/phone)
- Double-encrypted messaging
- Server-side message deletion
- Contact and photo disguise
- Secure Swiss servers
- Optional chat encryption key
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SagMal ("Tell Me" in German) is a new chatting app like no other, where the foremost is your privacy. • You provide absolutely nothing of your personal details when registering. No phone, no e-mail. Therefore, there is no way your personal data can be stolen or given away. • We use doble encoding using state-of-the art encoding algorithms. You can easily encode any chat and it won’t be even obvious that it’s encoded (see 3 first screenshots) to your significant other or any official. • Messages are deleted from the server as soon as they're delivered. And the servers are based in neutral Switzerland, unreachable to most of the the Big Brothers. • It’s very easy to change pictures and names of your contacts so that your significant other or the authorities won’t suspect who you’re talking to. • This app is ideal for: o Wife/husband cheaters, you will be very difficult to catch o Anyone who is not willing to receive targeted advertisement, or who simply doesn’t want to give away your personal details o Anyone willing to go or to organize a meeting that has not been authorized by the State. The Big Brother will have a hard time catching you We use double encoding with state-of-the-art encoding algorithms where nobody (even us) can decode your messages. To enable double-encoding set the chatroom password at the beginning and let it know to whoever you're chatting to right away. For extra safety do not use chat to inform about your chatroom password. Note that your chat messages are encoded anyways (even if you don't provide an extra password), but with this additional password you get a second encoding on top of the first one. And not only text but all the images are encoded as well. Here is an incomplete list of SagMal chat features: - No need to give your phone or E-mail when registering. Just the good old way of providing a username and a password. - We delete all messages from our servers as soon as they are delivered. - There are no "bots" like in some other messaging apps that can provide anyone with your registration information, nicknames, etc. - Our servers and hosting are located in neutral Switzerland. - Your personal data can't be stolen from our servers - just because there is no personal data available - we don't know your e-mail and phone number. - But this is not all - for each chat window you have the possibility to encode the chat contents with a unique key that we won't know. You just let this key know to your chat counterpart. - Using a key you can easily encode your chat. This is the way to have private conversations that won't be seen by your husband or your wife, your parents or authorities. Also photos will be encoded as well! - SagMal chat app protects you from your "Big brother" - there is no way they will know that you plan to go to a meeting where you're not supposed to go. - Very easy to delete messages, from both, yours and your counterpart devices. You can also set how long a message will live before it will be automatically deleted. - Possibility to have multiple accounts on the same device. Very easy to switch between accounts. - Delete a contact or add it to a blocked list is easy by swiping a contact to the left. - Refresh contact list or data from the server by pulling the view down. - Messages just sent are in italic font, received by the server are in normal font and received by the user are in bold. Please let us know if you find any bugs or wish to see some improvements or new features. The app is free to send text, audio messages, images and small videos (up to 10 MB per day). If you want to send larger media files you can purchase a subscription which renews monthly . Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sagmalchat.com/privacysmch
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: DatChat at 944 against SagMal's 1. SagMal's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. DatChat sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and SagMal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SagMal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DatChat has 944 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DatChat ships an update every 9 days, SagMal fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DatChat | SagMal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (944 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 944 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Myseum, Inc. | Vassili Kaplan |
Customer experience
DatChat
SagMal
Bugs and requests
DatChat
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Inconsistent message delivery
- Notifications not always working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Video chat functionality
- Ability to like/react to messages
- Improved message search and sorting
- Customizable notification settings
- Integration with other platforms
SagMal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DatChat
- Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Pro (Yearly)$9.991 Year
- Remain Anonymous$1.99
- DatChat Pro Lifetime$24.99
SagMal
- Images and Videos$0.991 Month









