Nikita Bier, creator of popular apps like the anonymous polling app tbh (acquired by Facebook) and the anonymous compliments app Gas (acquired by

Apple has a tendency to figure out ways to kill popular apps, but this time, someone else has done the work for them. Nikita Bier, an app maker with the Midas Touch, announced his new product Wednesday—an app called Explode that brings disappearing messages and texts directly to iMessage. Somebody check in on Snapchat and see how they’re feeling.

With the Explode app, you can send photos and texts on iMessage that disappear, and the other person doesn't need to have it to see them.

Explode helps you send disappearing (or "exploding") photos to your contacts on iMessage, designed to vanish after a few seconds. Like BeReal and Snapchat, the emphasis is on quick, one-to-one sharing that you don't have to think about too much.