SecXChat 3.0.1 is live now, and it is the biggest update the app has had in a while. It brings new app icons you can choose yourself, reminders for messages you want to come back to, notifications from your communities, and an app that keeps working properly when your connection does not. The update is available from the official download page, and because this is a forced update, the app will prompt you to install it — take it, and everything below is live the moment the app restarts.
The most visible change is the one on your home screen. There are now 12 app icon styles to choose from in Theme & Preferences, and your chosen icon now appears on the splash screen too, so the app looks like yours from the very first second it opens. Pick the style that fits your phone and your taste; the original icon is still there if you prefer it, and switching is as simple as choosing another style in settings.
The most useful change is Reminders. Long-press any message and tap Remind me, and SecXChat will notify you about it later. That turns the app into a gentle memory for the things chats are full of: a bill to pay, a message to answer when you are free, a birthday wish to send in the evening, an address to save when you get home. Before this, those messages sank down the chat list and were forgotten; now the one you care about comes back to you on its own.
The app also works better offline. Pages you have opened once now stay available without internet, and a weak connection no longer makes the app flicker and reload while you are reading. That matters most exactly where SecXChat is used most — on the move, on patchy signal, on a connection shared by a whole household. Your chats were already offline-first; now more of the app around them behaves the same way.
Communities get louder in a good way. You now get notifications for replies, likes, follows and mentions in your communities, so a conversation you joined does not go quiet on you. If someone replies to your post or mentions you, you will know about it instead of finding out hours later. It makes communities feel like a place people actually gather, rather than a board you have to keep checking by hand.
Screenshot and screen-record alerts get a small but important fix. Alerts now stay unread until you open the chat, so a warning you have not seen yet is not quietly marked as read behind your back. The alert still appears as a bubble in the chat, and it still covers the places where a capture matters — chats, view-once media, profile photos and contact cards. The difference is that the unread state now respects whether you have actually looked, which is how an alert should behave.
The permissions page is more honest now too. It shows your real permission states, with Location and Contacts added, so you can see at a glance what the app can actually do on your phone instead of guessing. Combined with the cleaner look across Community, Updates and Calls — grey backgrounds and clean white cards — the whole app feels tidier, and the status bar and bottom bar now stay white in light mode on every screen, so no page breaks the pattern.
Underneath all of that are bug fixes and speed improvements, the kind of work that shows up as fewer freezes and a faster start rather than as a new button. If you are still on an older build, this is the one to take. Download the latest version from the official download page and install it over your current app; your chats, your backup schedule, your PIN and your settings all stay exactly as they are. Always update from the official site, never from an app file sent by a stranger, so you know the build is genuine.
How do you know you have it? The current release is 3.0.1, version 60, about 63.8 MB, for Android 6.0 and newer, updated 10 November 2026. Open the app and check for the update prompt, or look at the version on the download page — if you are on an older build, the update sheet will offer 3.0.1. Installing it takes a minute, and when the app opens again you will see your new icon on the splash screen, your reminders waiting in the long-press menu, and your communities ready to notify you. That is what this release is: the same fast, private messenger, with a few everyday jobs — remembering, choosing, staying available offline — finally handled properly.
