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Private Messages Lite sends short messages that delete themselves. Here is what everything on the page does.

Sending a message

Fill in your name, who it is for, and the message, then press Send.
Names need at least three letters or numbers, and nothing else.
The first time you write to somebody, an Invite window appears with a link. Copy it and send it to them however you normally would — text, email, anything.
The link does not contain your message. It only tells their page who is writing, so they can open it and read what you sent.
A link works once. Whoever opens it first takes it up, and after that it opens nothing — so a link that gets forwarded, or left sitting in a chat, is no use to anybody who finds it later.
After that first time, messages to the same person just send. No more links.
If you type a name close to one you have used before, the page asks whether you meant the old one — so a typo does not quietly start a second conversation.

Opening someone's link puts you on the same page they used, set up to reply: their name is already in the box, and what they wrote sits above it.
New messages arrive on their own. The page checks every few seconds — you do not need to refresh.
A short sound plays when something arrives — unless you have touched the page in the last 45 seconds, in which case you are already looking at it and do not need telling.
The speaker at the top right turns the sound off and on. It gains a line through it when the sound is off. Your choice is remembered.
Your phone will not play the sound if it is locked, if the page is in the background, or — on an iPhone — if the silent switch is on.

Our links all begin https://pmsgslite.com/?m= followed by ten characters. A forged one cannot use that address, so it uses one that looks like it — a 1 in place of the l, a longer name that only starts with ours, or a letter from another alphabet that draws the same shape.
None of those are fair to expect anyone to spot in a chat window. Paste the link into Check a link instead and it will tell you whose address it really is. The check happens in your browser; the link is not sent anywhere.
If you are checking a link you are suspicious of, reach that page by typing pmsgslite.com/verifylink yourself rather than by following a link in the message — a checker you were sent can be forged along with it.

Every message disappears 35 seconds after it was sent. The countdown is shown beside it.
Three small buttons buy more time: Sec adds a second, Min adds a minute, Frz adds five minutes and then waits those five minutes out before it can be used again.
However often you press them, the longest a message can have left is 59 minutes and 59 seconds.
Extending works for both of you — the other person's page sees the new time too.
Delete in the history removes a message straight away instead of waiting. It asks you to confirm first.
Either of you can delete a message. Once the text is gone it is gone, for both sides.
Messages go on time whether or not anybody is looking. Nobody has to have the conversation open for the text to be deleted — the server sees to it.

Latest Messages — the recent conversation in plain text, yours marked → and theirs ←, with the countdown and the time buttons.
Message History — everything you have sent and received with that person. Tap the message column to read one, and tap it again to put it back behind the scrambled version.
The history shows when each message was sent, how long it has left, and a button to delete it now.
Hide folds the history away. On a phone it starts folded, since there is not room for everything at once.

The flag under the title sets the language you read in. Tap the flag or the … beside it to see all of them.
The second flag, next to the message box, sets the language you are writing for — the one your receiver will read it in.
Messages you receive are translated into your language, with the original shown underneath so you can always see what was actually written.
Translation happens on your own device. Your messages are never sent to a translation service.
Not every browser can do this yet. Where it cannot, messages simply appear as they were written.
If you open somebody's invite link, the page greets you in the language they chose for you — until you pick your own, which then sticks.

Photo attaches a picture to a message. It disappears on the same countdown as the words.
A photo can be sent on its own, with no message.
If there is a face in it, a Hair colour row appears and you can recolour the hair — black, brown, auburn, blonde, red, pink, blue, green, purple or grey.
Each colour is applied to the original photo, so you can try them one after another without the picture drifting.

You can add pMsgsLite to your home screen, so it opens with one tap, full screen, with no address bar. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed from a store: it is a shortcut to this same site, asking for no permissions and creating no account.
The steps for iPhone and for Android, and a button that does it where your browser allows, are on the settings page.

Your name is remembered for 48 hours, so you come back to the same conversations without typing it again.
If nothing at all happens for 48 hours — nothing sent, nothing received, nobody touching the page — the session ends itself.
End Session at the top right leaves that name behind completely: every message you sent is deleted, the page forgets you, and you start again as a stranger.
That cannot be undone, and it is not limited to the device you are on.
Messages sent to you are not deleted by this — those belong to the other side of the conversation.

Your name is not what identifies you — this browser is. Two people using the same name never see each other's messages.
Which also means your conversations live in this browser. Clearing your cookies, or opening the app on another device, starts you as somebody new with an empty history, and there is no way back to the old one.
An invite link is good for one opening. Send it to the person you meant, and if it gets opened by mistake you will need to send a fresh one.
Once you have opened somebody's link you do not need it again — going to the site normally shows the conversation. Opening the link a second time will say it is invalid, and that is expected.
35 seconds is short. Somebody who opens their link a minute late will find the message already gone.
Messages are stored scrambled and are only unscrambled to show them to you.
Nothing here needs an account, a password, or an email address.