Privacy Policy

Officially, XChat makes three big promises: end-to-end encryption, no ads, and no user tracking. Those points are explicitly highlighted on the App Store page. The full privacy policy is available through X's official website.

But no tracking does not mean no data collection of any kind. In practice, XChat still needs some operational data to route messages and keep the service running, such as delivery metadata, crash logs, or system diagnostics. The harder questions are how long that data is retained, whether it is combined with broader X platform data, and how X responds to legal data requests. Public information remains thin on those points.

Compared with WhatsApp, the incentive structure is different. WhatsApp also offers E2EE, but Meta still collects metadata that feeds into a much larger advertising ecosystem. XChat currently has no equivalent ad business inside the product, so in theory it has less commercial incentive to harvest that kind of data. Whether practice matches theory is something time and independent scrutiny will have to prove.