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From Facebook Messenger to Snapchat, privacy issues have plagued some of today's most popular messaging apps.

But a new contender could change this with its claims to offer 'private and untraceable' text messaging for Android and iOS devices.

Dubbed OneOne, the free messaging app provides seven channels of secure communication without requiring users to ever create an account.

Dubbed OneOne, the free messaging app provides seven channels of secure communication without ever requiring users to create an account

Users also don't need to provide identifying information such as a telephone number, device ID or social media profile. 

Messages are encrypted, and are automatically destroyed after 24 hours.

The app was developed by Dublin-based photographer Kevin Abosch, who is also behind the Lenka monochrome photography app and the KwikDesk semi-public messaging platform.

Once the app is installed, seven 'channels' become available, which are used to chat with up to seven other users.

Users don't need to provide identifying information such as a telephone number, device ID or social media profile. Messages are encrypted and are automatically destroyed after 24 hours

When a channel is tapped, it gives the user the option to give it an email address, to which it sends an invite with a link attached.

They then use the link to open the secure channel in the user's app.

'After you compose a message in OneOne and press send, the message is encrypted before leaving your device using 2048-bit RSA and 256-bit AES cryptographic algorithms, and sent over HTTPS to our secure server,' the company wrote on its website.

These are all methods of hiding and securing the content of messages from prying eyes.  

Messages are automatically deleted after a day, but either side of a conversation can remove a channel from both devices at any time.

OneOne is currently limited to text at the moment, but images and document transfers are planned for the future, according to a report in the Next Web.

'OneOne encrypts and decrypts messages directly on your device using secret keys that never leave your device,' Mr Absoch told the news site.

Once the app is installed, seven 'channels' become available (left), which are used to chat with up to seven other users. When a channel is tapped, it gives the user the option to give it an email address, to which it sends an invite with a link attached. They use this link to open the secure channel in the user's app (right)

'It's impossible for anyone, including OneOne servers, to decrypt the message's content  -as they do not have access to the secret keys on your device.'

While the app isn't unhackable, Mr Absoch claims the major sell of the app is its lack of 'traceability'.

The entrepreneur expects business people and lawyers to find OneOne particularly useful, but added that anyone who wants a private conversation will find it useful.

'Anonymity and ephemerality are cute, and we have that too, but the reason lawyers like to discuss sensitive issues with clients on OneOne is the untracaebility,' he said.

CLOAKD APP LETS YOU CHAT TO FACEBOOK FRIENDS ANONYMOUSLY 

It may be billed as an 'honest' way to chat on Facebook, but critics say that an app that allows people to have anonymous conversations could lead to trolling.

Cloakd is designed to let people find out what their Facebook friends really think about them, using a cloak of anonymity.

The company behind the Android app said it enables people to share their thoughts 'in the truest form' with people that they know.

It said the app is for 'the uninhibited, the unrevealed and the unpretentious; Cloakd is for the honest hello'.

But commentators are sceptical about whether the tool will be used for soul searching and 'honest hellos', instead of trolling friends, with some saying they it would feel strange using a deceptive tool against people they know.

Users can send and receive anonymous messages in the app but both parties must have it to read them. 

Those who don't have the app receive an email saying that they have been sent an anonymous message from 'someone in their Facebook friend list' and to read it, they have to download Cloakd.

Other anonymous tools allow people to talk with others behind a veil of secrecy – but usually in chat rooms with strangers.

The Cloakd app (pictured left) is designed to let people find out what their Facebook friends really think about them, using a cloak of anonymity. They can scroll through a list of their friends (right) to initiate an anonymous conversation, but both users need to use the app to join in