DatChat vs Discrio
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
Discrio
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No account. No phone number. Nothing to sign up for. Two phones agree to talk by showing each other a code once. After that only those two phones can read what passes between them, and there is no account anywhere to leak, demand, or hand over. NOBODY CAN FIND YOU There is no directory, nowhere to search, and no address that leads to you. You start a conversation by showing someone a code in person, or by sending an invitation link that works once and expires after 24 hours. THE SERVER HAS NOTHING TO GIVE UP Messages pass through a relay holding encrypted blocks — every one exactly 8192 bytes, so size says nothing — under random names tied to no one. No user table, no record of who talks to whom. Blocks are deleted when collected, and expire after 21 days regardless. Tap the byte count under any message and see exactly what the server saw. BUILT TO STAY UNREADABLE X25519 with ML-KEM, the post-quantum standard, and the Double Ratchet, through libsignal — the audited open-source library behind them. Your text is padded to 4096 bytes before encryption, so even the ciphertext length gives nothing away. A message captured today stays unreadable when quantum computers arrive. Compare the sixty safety digits once and you know nobody came between you. If a contact's key ever changes, sending stops until you confirm. FOR THE MOMENT SOMEBODY IS HOLDING YOUR PHONE You choose two passphrases. One opens your conversations. The other opens an app that looks identical, holding ordinary, unremarkable ones. Nothing reveals which you typed: no alarm, no notification, not one second of delay. A third, optional passphrase destroys everything, then opens that same quiet app. Every conversation has a panic hold: press the name at the top and you are on the other side instantly. No button exists to give it away, and coming back needs the passphrase. The app also re-locks on its own — immediately, after a minute, five, an hour, or never. AGAINST THE CAMERA IN THE ROOM Screenshots come out blank. Screen recording and mirroring too. Captures work only where both of you allowed them: your messages sit on the other phone too, so a choice one of you makes alone protects nothing. Allow them and the other person is told the moment you take one. For a second phone pointed at your screen, camera mode opens a message only under your finger. Deniable wording bends the spelling on the way out so a photograph cannot quote you, leaving numbers, times and addresses as typed. Agreed words let one word stand for another, the meaning never reaching the screen. A watermark says which phone a leaked screenshot came from. MESSAGES THAT GO A timer per conversation: gone when you leave it, an hour, a day, a week, a month, or never. Counted from when a message is sent, not read. A ghost message is stronger. Read once, for three to thirty seconds, and then it exists on neither phone. Ghost messages never touch the disk, and a ghost photo can never be captured, whatever either of you allowed. Photos are encrypted on your phone and padded to one of five fixed sizes. NO INTERNET, NO PROBLEM Turn on nearby delivery and a message crosses the room directly — over Wi-Fi, or over the radios if there is none. It works with the internet cut off, and no third party sees the timing, the volume, or that anything was said. WHAT WE WILL NOT PRETEND Any server sees where a connection comes from. We do not log it, but that is a policy, not mathematics: use a VPN or Tor if you need to hide that you use Discrio at all. No software can stop somebody photographing your screen with a second phone. It raises the cost, not the impossibility. Forget your passphrase and your conversations are gone. Nothing is kept from which they could be rebuilt. That is the design, and the one thing that cannot be softened. Notifications say only "New message" — never who, never what — and can be turned off. 17 languages. No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party code.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Discrio at none against DatChat's 4. DatChat's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Discrio asks for nothing beyond the download.
DatChat ships an update every 9 days, Discrio every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DatChat | Discrio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (943 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 943 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Myseum, Inc. | Bartis Arnold |
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
Discrio
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
Discrio
No in-app purchases









