Don’t Want To Be Like Tiger Woods? Get TigerText!

TigerText, an iPhone app that launched yesterday (Feb. 25th), proposes to totally save you from being found out by nosy folks like the media, TMZ, or your significant other.

According to TIME.com, TigerText will allow its user to set a time limit on how long your text will “hang around” after it has been read. Once the lifespan of the message has been exceeded, the message will disappear from the recipient’s phone, the sender’s phone, and any servers — according to TigerText’s developers.

That means those late night booty call requests sent via text cannot be forwarded, stored, or sold to any tabloids for an undisclosed amount, and you won’t have to worry about embarrassing your family.

Here’s a breakdown of how the app really works according to TIME.com:

Say a prominent Southern politician sends his mistress an iPhone message via TigerText, the mistress will be prompted to install the app. When she has done this, she can read the message, but she can’t keep it. In fact the message is never actually sent to her phone — it’s stored on Tiger Text’s servers. After the timespan that the politician specified has elapsed — anywhere from one minute to five days — the message ceases to exist. There’s even a “Delete on Read” setting, which counts down from 60 after it’s opened, and erases the text at zero.

While the app may help philanderers and adulterers, it was not initially developed with them in mind. Founder Jeffrey Evans told TIME that “Tiger” was the name of the app before the texting scandal and the company decided to stick with it. With privacy increasingly becoming an issue in today’s Digital Age, TigerText aims to make sure that texting, sexting, or whatever one does behind closed doors, doesn’t come back to haunt them.

Is this an app you’ll be getting soon? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!