Taking cues from the self-destructive nature of Snapchat's picture messaging system comes Confide, a text-based messenger app that deletes text messages after they've been read and features an innovative scrolling system that prevents screenshots being taken. Arising from a need to occasionally remove the permanence of e-mails or texts, Confide offers people the chance to communicate via text without worrying that their messages will stick around indefinitely – think of it as a more professionally useful version of Snapchat.

The app prevents screenshots being taken by using an intelligent scrolling system, where words remain covered until they are touched by the user's finger, meaning that the entire message is never visible at one time. As more and more off our interactions now take place online, Confide is a good example of a method that carryies over the benefits of traditional conversation, in this case the fact that everything you say isn't being recorded or documented, to the digital realm. Allowing people to have 'off-the-record' digital conversations brings online interactions one step closer to offline ones.