ChatSecure-iOS

What really disappoints me about the current crop of VC funded messaging apps is that none of them care very strongly about user privacy. Even apps that claim to keep your messages "encrypted" are closed source and don't include details about their encryption techniques. There are open source encrypted messaging apps like ChatSecure [1][2], and TextSecure [3] but they lack some of the modern vanity features that users expect and they can seem difficult to setup for an average user. 1. https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS 2. https://github.com/guardianproject/ChatSecureAndroid 3. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/

My apps ChatSecure [1] and OpenWatch [2] are fully open source as well. 1. https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS 2. https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-iOS

Hahaha, perhaps because we don't have a fancy graphic designer, marketing budget or PR firm? Version 2.x does have some bugs that we are working out, stemming from a large refactor to use Core Data. However, we actually don't touch the crypto ourselves and delegate all of it to the official libotr library. If you want to come help improve it, come check out the source: https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS/

I am the original author of ChatSecure [1], the only free and open source OTR client for iOS devices. We also released an Objective-C wrapper around libotr called OTRKit [2] to help other developers integrate their apps with the OTR protocol. Gibberbot [3] is the equivalent program for Android devices, both of which are currently supported by The Guardian Project. 1. https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS 2. https://github.com/ChatSecure/OTRKit 3. https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot

ChatSecure and IM+ both support OTR instant-messaging on the iphone, so depending on what you mean by "like that"... yes. ChatSecure is opensource too fwiw: https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS