MimeChat is an Android app developed by MimeChat (68 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL, United Kingdom).

MimeChat first became available on 20 May 2015. It is estimated that MimeChat has been downloaded between 10000 and 50000 times from the Play Store.

MimeChat 1.2.0 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows an application to read SMS messages.

Allows an application to receive SMS messages.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.