Caprine

Unofficial Facebook Messenger app

[![](media/screenshot.png)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/releases/latest)

Features

Background behavior

When closing the window, the app will continue running in the background, in the dock on macOS and the tray on Linux/Windows. Right-click the dock/tray icon and choose Quit to completely quit the app. On macOS, click the dock icon to show the window. On Linux, right-click the tray icon and choose Toggle to toggle the window. On Windows, click the tray icon to toggle the window.

If you like to have Caprine minimized on startup, open it from the command-line with the --minimize flag.

Dark mode

You can toggle dark mode in the Caprine menu or with Cmd D / Ctrl D.

Jump to conversation hotkey

You can switch conversations similar to how you switch browser tabs: Cmd/Ctrl n (where n is 1 through 9).

Compact mode

The interface adapts when resized to a small size.

Desktop notifications

Desktop notifications can be turned on in Preferences.

Always on Top

You can toggle whether Caprine stays on top of other windows in the Window/View menu or with Cmd/Ctrl Shift t.

Keyboard shortcuts

Description	Keys
New conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl` `n`
Search conversations	`Cmd/Ctrl` `f`
Toggle "Dark mode"	`Cmd/Ctrl` `d`
Next conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl` `]` or `Ctrl` `Tab`
Previous conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl` `[` or `Ctrl` `Shift` `Tab`
Jump to conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl` `1`…`9`
Mute conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl` `Shift` `m`
Archive conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl` `Shift` `a`
Delete conversation	`Cmd/Ctrl` `Shift` `d`
Toggle "Always on Top"	`Cmd/Ctrl` `Shift` `t`

Install

macOS 10.9+, Windows 7+ & Linux are supported.

macOS

Homebrew Cask

$ brew update && brew cask install caprine

Manually

Download, unzip, and move Caprine.app to the /Applications directory.

Linux

Download and unzip to some location.

To add a shortcut to the app, create a file in ~/.local/share/applications called caprine.desktop with the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Caprine
Exec=/full/path/to/folder/Caprine
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/full/path/to/folder/Caprine/resources/app/static/Icon.png

Windows