The time has gone when the encryption was considered imperative only for security services and spy agencies. It is no more limited to any group. With increasing data breaches, it has become important in almost every person’s life due to data stealing fear from jealous employees, partners and more.

Take an example of online bank transfer, to avoid hacking of your account; the data is mostly transmitted with encryption. Along with the confidential details, people are more conscious about the data stealing issue these days. They prefer to use the most secured apps to prevent any type of data leakage. This is the reason why developers are more concentrating on the development of more secured messaging apps. Even the existing apps are updated with encryption.

The popular apps that are most commonly used implements the encryption in different ways and at various levels. Among so many text and image encryption apps, it is difficult to say that which app is best for you. However, the apps using end-to-end encryption does not break mostly. Go through the small descriptions of commonly used messaging apps that offers ultimate secure communications given here –

Facebook Messenger- This app uses encryption during transit and Facebook has authority to access the messages if required. Moreover, this app does not allow the end-to-end encryption for messaging by default. To use encryption, you need to enable the “Secret Conversations” feature in the app.

WhatsApp- It is one of the most commonly used messaging apps that has recently updated with feature of encryption. It offers end-to-end encryption but does not allow the code to review and open independently.

iMessage– It is a messaging app for Apple devices offers a transit level encryption that even doesn’t allow Apple to read the message. This app does not offer the verification of the identity of the contacts.

Signal- It is completely secured app, freely available for iOS and Android app. It allows transmission of fully encrypted messages and voice calls as well. The users using the Signal apps do not have to use the password for contact discovery to reach the apps contacts.

Telegram- It is a secured text and chat application that allows transmitting of messages from one Telegram user to other. Apart from Android and iOS devices, it is also available for Windows phone and PCs users as well.

EnKryptonite app- This freely available messaging app for Android and iOS uses military grade 512 Bit AES symmetric-key encryption algorithm. This app platform does not store, receive, or transmit encrypted messages. In this app, for communication,various layers of security is applied including encryption at senders end and decryption at receiver end. The receiver can only read the message after validating the security rules that the sender has applied to the message.

Text Secure– It is an app developed by Open Whisper Systems to encrypt the text and voice calls. It is available for Android and iOS devices on Google Store and App Store.

These are just few apps using encryption to offer ultimate secure communications. You can explore the internet and you will find numerous more apps available with encryption feature.