Now, an iPhone application that keeps adultery secret

An iPhone application has been launched which promises to cut the risk in adultery by making text messages vanish without trace as soon as they have been read.

TigerText enables the sender to set a lifespan for the message. Once this ends, the application erases the text from both the sender's and recipient's phones.

Costing 1.60-pound a month, the app is being marketed at people who need privacy and want to "cover their tracks", reports The Times. It works only if the sender and recipient are both using Apple iPhones and have the app installed.

Paula Hall, a counsellor with Relate, said: "For couples where infidelity is a possibility, this just makes cheating easier."