Snap Save stores all your racy Snapchats in phones forever

Thought Snapchat was the most fool-proof way to send sexts? Think again. Here’s a new app called Snap Save that potentially breaks every privacy based tenet Snapchat stands for and let’s you save pictures without even letting the sender know about it.

Snapchat is a photo-sharing application that self-destroys your message within a few seconds of the receiver viewing it. The model makes it ideal for users to share racy pictures with their significant others or other fun stuff with friends. Of course, there is always the risk of the receiver taking a screenshot to preserve the snaps forever.

Mind your sexts!

Snapchat, however, has a system in place using which the sender will always be alerted in case the receiver has taken a screenshot of the image. Snap Save for iOS has found a way around this. Using the application, you will be able to save the snaps in your phone and the sender will never be notified. The free version of the application is ad supported and for a non-intrusive experience, you will need to shell out $2.99.

This raises some pretty alarming questions about safety on the risqué images shared by teenagers and young adults using the applications. Snapchat is no stranger from controversy. Bugs and roundabout ways that allowed receivers to save snaps have been in the news ever since the app released in 2011. A very controversial way was revealed by Digital Forensics Examiner Richard Hickman who showed that with a minimum technical know-how, you can recover snaps that had disappeared from your phones.

This is a serious issue as far as the application goes and could potentially be harmful to the sender as well. Snapchat had not commented about Snap Save just yet, but it looks certain that the company will find a way to make it disappear just like the snaps.