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Sarahah App: Do Websites That Let You Check Who Sent the Messages Really Work, and Other Questions Answered

Sarahah app has been gaining ground since over the past week, joining trends such as Prisma app that rose quickly in public consciousness. Even after a week, it shows no sign of slowing down in popularity, and your Facebook news feed and Twitter feed is probably filled with positive (or negative) messages shared by your friends and family. Whether Sarahah's popularity continues is anybody's guess, but the latest is trend is trying to find out who is sending the messages. Of course, it wouldn't be social media if someone didn't try to scam the app's users. So its no wonder that websites claiming to reveal the identities of Sarahah message senders have cropped up online. We solve the question for you.

Sarahah Exposer and Sarahah Spyer, do these work?

Chief among websites claiming to unravel the mystery of the Sarahah message sender are Sarahahexposer.com and Sarahahspyer.com. These have become popular courtesy WhatsApp forwards. However, these are just fake claims, and there is no way to decrypt the identities of Sarahah message senders yet. So it's best to stay away from these websites as such scams usually end up with the user data stolen or malware installed on your phone/computer.

Sarahah app - how it works

Even without logging in, people can visit your Sarahah profile and leave messages, anonymously. If they have logged in, messages are still anonymous by default, but users can choose to tag their identity. On the receivers app, all the incoming messages show up in an inbox, and you can flag messages, delete them, reply, or favourite them to find them easily later. 

You would be surprised to learn that the Sarahah app is actually a few months old, and has already been a hit in regions such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, according to a BBC report. But although the app has become very popular, it's quite polarising. For instance, although it has (at the time of writing) 10,305 5-star reviews on Google Play, it's also got 9,652 1-star reviews, showing a near 50-50 split in opinion. The creators described it by saying: Sarahah helps people self-develop by receiving constructive anonymous feedback.

That's at least in part because of fact that anonymity enables people to act out and behave in hurtful ways without consideration for consequences. Even positive reviews on the App Store still warn that this app is not for the weak hearted. Another 5-star review mentions that people are getting a lot of hateful comments.


Now, to be fair, the developers are also looking at ways to improve the experience. Privacy features mean that you can remove your profile from search results, limiting your audience to people who you share your profile with, and you can also turn off access for unauthorised users - that is, only people who are logged in will be able to comment. You can also block senders, so even if you can't see the name of the user, they won't be able to send you a message again.

The rest of the Sarahah experience remains incredibly barebones though. It's got one purpose in mind, and delivers a quick and ready experience on that front. It could look better, aesthetically speaking, but from a functional perspective its design easily serves its purpose.

Sarahah isn't the first anonymous messaging app we've seen that blew up in popularity though. Yik Yak, Secret, and Whisper are some of the popular apps in recent times to try and fill this function. For the most part, those apps have been more social, making the interactions more public. Sarahah's focus is more on messaging and less on social media, and so visiting another users' profile won't show anything, unless they choose to make the posts public.

Ultimately though, allowing fully anonymous comments, and not allowing users to respond to messages means that it's a possible avenue for bullying. It's very trendy right now, but we've seen other secrecy based platforms buzz up and then fizzle out too. There are certain key differences to Sarahah, but it's too soon to say whether it has what it takes to last longer than the others did.
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