So Call Me Maybe…. New Invisible Phone App Aids Love Cheats

This man has never had a girlfriend and so has never even had the chance to have a mistress.

But he knows what the unfaithful are looking for and is fast becoming a hero to cheaters worldwide.

Neal Desai has created an app that renders text messages from a lover invisible to wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends and other unsuspecting other halves.

The 25-year-old entrepreneur is the brain behind Cate (or ‘call and text eraser’). The app creates a secret log of calls and text messages between the phone user and any individual of their choice.

No evidence of any communication is visible on the phone and the calls, numbers and text messages associated with the secret lover can only be retrieved by the owner calling a preset number that can be memorised or stored under an innocent name.

The Cate app has taken its vow to secrecy a step further. The app icon does not appear on the smartphone screen either, avoiding any awkward questions as to what the app does.

Desai has analysed every angle of the app to make sure the unfaithful’s cover cannot be blown. If your other half appears when you happen to be reading an illicit message, a quick shake of the phone makes all the evidence disappear.

Users can choose phone numbers, texts and calls to be invisible on their phone...

Desai, a student from Boston, bought the app for over €13,500 from  a Miami police officer who had developed it after watching his colleague’s marriage collapse when the wife discovered his affair by reading text messages.

Desai sought financial backing on Think Tank, the States’ answer to Dragon’s Den, and secured a €87,000 financial offering to market the app.

Cate has been available on Android phones for the last three weeks and has been downloaded over 10,000 times already.

Thousands more have signed up for the iPhone version which will launch next month.

Although the app is clearly being marketed towards love cheats, Desai insists it is primarily a privacy app.

“A with every technology that involves privacy, there is good and bad,” Desai said, “Drug dealers and cheaters might use it because that’s what comes with the territory of privacy.

“But it could also have uses for government officials, or corporate business, or for lawyers whose entire business is based on keeping things confidential.”

Something for you to think about? Women have accounted for 70 per cent of the purchases so far…

Desai’s business partner has said that the figure might be due to a desire by women to protect themselves from controlling husbands or boyfriends…