WhatsApp desktop client, based on the official WhatsApp web app. Build with Electron.
This is NOT an official product. This project does not attempt to reverse engineer the WhatsApp API or attempt to reimplement any part of the WhatsApp client. Any communication between the user and WhatsApp servers is handled by official WhatsApp Web itself; this is just a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web, like a browser.
Original version of WhatsApp Desktop was written by @bcalik there: https://github.com/bcalik/Whatsapp-Desktop
- Cross platform. (OSX, Windows, Linux)
- Native notifications.
- System tray icon.
- Open links in browser.
- Badge with the number of notifications in the dock/taskbar.
- Dock icon bounces when a new message is received.
- Focus on contact search input via CMD+F (WIN+F).
- Phone info window (s/w versions, battery status, etc)
- Auto-launch on login
- Start minimized to tray icon
- A couple of things can be configured:
- Toggle avatar visibility
- Toggle preview of the messages visibility
- Set the size for the media thumbs
- Proxy settings connect to WhatsApp web
You can download the ArchLinux package from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/whatsapp-desktop/
Thanks to @bil-elmoussaoui
You can download the DEB package from the latest release
Download and run the WhatsApp file from the latest release.
In order to execute the program in Linux, first you should give it permission to the App:
sudo chmod u+x WhatsApp
./WhatsApp
Contributions are welcome! For feature requests and bug reports please submit an issue.
To build from the source, run the following commands:
npm install
cd app/
npm install
cd ..
npm run build:platform
where build:platform
can be build:linux
if you want to build only for Linux, build:osx
for OSX only, build:win
for Windows only, or simply build
to build for all platforms.
You'll find artifacts into dist/
directory.
Wine needs to be installed. On OS X, it is installable via Homebrew:
brew install wine
On GNU/Linux you can install wine
from your distro package manager.
Please mind that wine
requires an Xorg display, so you should set correctly your DISPLAY env var (you can use Xvfb
if you don't have/want a real Xorg display running)
After npm run build:linux
, launch:
debuild -b -uc -us
Note that if version is changed you should use dch
first.