India, June 18 -- As digital communication continues to change fast, a new challenger has come to take on WhatsApp. Introducing XChat, the latest from X (formerly Twitter). XChat has big claims on privacy, ease of use, extensibility, uniqueness, etc. This article will cover what XChat is, what it does, and how it compares to the big players like WhatsApp.

XChat is a messaging app within X that launched in June 2025. XChat is different from other messaging apps because XChat is a specific message service within X as a feature, a portal to a messaging feature platform to communicate through. So the underlying product is to private message, securely, with end-to-end encryption, file sharing, and calling without a phone number.

XChat is par...