WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp LLC

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 8 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.


*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

Ratings and reviews

An excellent app for communication. Makes communication much cheaper than phoning direct. As an improvement, I think having a function in the app, that makes it able to read out aloud messages would be a great. Many times I find myself demotivated when I have to read long messages on the small screen of my mobile phone, or when I want to direct my attention to other things at the same time

The new emoji tray is just horrible. It clashes with gesture controls and i keep minimizing whatsapp trying to grip the tray, it just adds steps to the process, the emoji search function layout is different from the gif search layout and takes you out of the new layout. Its all a mess. Either revert back or make the tray to be already expanded when you tap on the emoji button on the message bar. Edit: seems to be better now. Not sure if it was a bug or an update got installed.

I use this app for a lot of long distance video calls. Unfortunately, the quality of calls is very poor. For the past 10 days or so, this app has frozen within 5 to 10 seconds of making a call: only way to rectify this, is to cut call and dial it again. It will still freeze on subsequent calls and trying to speak to someone on a video which always freezes is completely frustrating. 03.0.23 In an average 50 minute call, WhatsApp is still freezing at least every 3 minutes for 2 to 3 seconds

What's new

• You can now send higher resolution images in chat. To get started, tap the ‘HD’ button when previewing media before sending.
• Screen sharing is now supported in video calls. Start a video call and tap on the new “screen share” button to get started.

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