WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp LLC

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About this app

WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. It’s simple, reliable, and private, so you can easily keep in touch with your friends and family. WhatsApp works across mobile and desktop even on slow connections, with no subscription fees*.


Private messaging across the world

Your personal messages and calls to friends and family are end-to-end encrypted. No one outside of your chats, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to them.


Simple and secure connections, right away
All you need is your phone number, no user names or logins. You can quickly view your contacts who are on WhatsApp and start messaging.

High quality voice and video calls
Make secure video and voice calls with up to 32 people for free*. Your calls work across mobile devices using your phone’s Internet service, even on slow connections.

Group chats to keep you in contact
Stay in touch with your friends and family. End-to-end encrypted group chats let you share messages, photos, videos and documents across mobile and desktop.

Stay connected in real time
Share your location with only those in your individual or group chat, and stop sharing at any time. Or record a voice message to connect quickly.


Share daily moments through Status
Status allows you to share text, photos, video and GIF updates that disappear after 24 hours. You can choose to share status posts with all your contacts or just selected ones.

Use WhatsApp on your Wear OS watch to continue conversations, reply to messages, and take calls - all from your wrist. And, leverage tiles and complications to easily access your chats and send voice messages.

*In some regions, WhatsApp uses SMS verification to authenticate your phone number and secure transactions.
*Data charges may apply. Contact your provider for details.
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If you have any feedback or questions, please go to WhatsApp > Settings > Help > Contact Us.

Terms of Service: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service
Learn more about messaging privately: https://www.whatsapp.com/privacy
Learn more about WhatsApp safety: https://www.whatsapp.com/security

Ratings and reviews

App regularly crashes after sending a message, keeps trying to debug itself and looks for something call Facebook Stella, even though I don't have a FB account and never linked to such. Have to keep this app for a few friends, but might just put it in a separate Android user profile and forget about it except when needed.

I used to love WhatsApp even back when it had a subscription cost of a dollar per year. I had no problem paying for it back then because it was so amazing! Nowadays , it's chock full of little features that are geared towards dumbing down our society even more. We don't need AI thinking for us and we definitely don't need it integrated into a messaging system. And I don't need little stickers flashing where my keyboard swap button sits when I'm trying to go back to keyboard from emoji's.

Ok for basic free communication(calls & texting) but the app does this annoying possibly illegal thing in the background. It seems to randomly download "backup" files to my phones file app without my permission which aren't even backup files. They're just statistic files that track your shopping & browsing data which should be considered an illegal privacy invasion & has nothing to do with actual backup data which the app does simply by signing in anyway & there's no way to disable it.

What’s new

• You can now choose to share recent group history with new members when you add them to a group
• Group calls now include the ability to transfer calls between mobile and desktop, add a waiting room for call links, and pin a participant to a bigger tile.


These features will roll out over the coming weeks. Thanks for using WhatsApp!