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.

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

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.

There's a lot of buzz around the new iOS app Explode, which lets you send disappearing images over iMessage. Your friends don't even need to install the app.