# Expansive Messaging Apps The Talk Path App Makes Messaging Friends, Family and Businesses Easy By Laura McQuarrie | Published 2014-09-30 | Tech Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/path-app References: [mashable](http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/path-talk-messaging/) & [path](https://path.com/) The 'Talk' Path app is one that's designed for simple, [private communication with friends and family](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/waffle), making it easy to share maps, photos, text, video and voice messages. No matter what kind of content you're sending with Path, it's all free. Some of the neat features of the app include a [Snapchat](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/snapchat-4)-like feature, which deletes conversations 24 hours after they messages are sent. The app also supports group chats, which is super handy for coordinating with a bunch of individuals at once. In addition to this, a recent update to the Path app now lets users send messages directly to nearby businesses. This also makes it so that you can arrange reservations and check the hours of operation without a lot of additional hassle. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 4.9/10 - Popularity: 49% | Activity: 91% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial - Top markets: North America ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Tech](https://www.trendhunter.com/tech) > [Mobile](https://www.trendhunter.com/mobile) ## Key Themes ### Why This Trend Is Growing - **Simple Messaging Apps:** The Talk Path app simplifies communication with friends, family, and businesses, offering disruptive opportunities for enhancing private messaging experiences. - **Snapchat-like Messaging:** The disappearing conversation feature in Talk Path app presents disruptive opportunities to create engaging and ephemeral communications. - **Messaging for Businesses:** The ability to send messages directly to nearby businesses in the Path app opens up disruptive opportunities for seamless customer interactions and hassle-free reservations. ### Industries Being Reshaped - **Communication:** The Talk Path app's messaging features provide disruptive innovation opportunities to enhance the way people interact and communicate with each other. - **Social Media:** The Talk Path app's Snapchat-like messaging capabilities create disruptive innovation opportunities to evolve social media engagement and content sharing. - **Hospitality:** The Talk Path app's messaging to nearby businesses feature offers disruptive innovation opportunities for streamlining customer service and reservation processes in the hospitality industry. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Important Sharing Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-finhapp.md) - [Emotion-Driven Messaging Platforms](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/emochat.md) - [Safe Stranger Chat Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/whisperly-app.md) - [Running Partner Messaging Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/strava-messaging.md) - [Private Messaging Tools](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/yapsdotchat.md) - [Internet-Free Messaging Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bitchat.md) - [Audio Conversation Platforms](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/roads-audio.md) - [Email Video Message Apps](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/vocal-app.md) - [Visual Chat Platforms](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/picnow.md)