A simple & beautiful desktop client for WhatsApp which runs on OS X, Windows and Linux. Built with NW.js. Not affiliated with WhatsApp or Facebook. This is NOT an official product. Read the DISCLAIMER.
- Group chats
- Send photos & videos
- Share locations
- Badge with the number of notifications in the dock/taskbar (OS X and Windows)
- Auto-launch on OS startup (OS X, Windows)
- Native notifications (all platforms)l
- System tray icon (OS X, Windows)
- Open links in browser or new window
- Preferences in the right-click context menu (or menu bar for OS X, tray menu for Windows)
# install gulp
npm install -g gulp
# install dependencies
npm install
- wine: If you're on OS X/Linux and want to build for Windows, you need Wine installed. Wine is required in order
to set the correct icon for the exe. If you don't have Wine, you can comment out the
winIcofield ingulpfile. - makensis: Required by the
pack:win32task ingulpfileto create the Windows installer. - fpm: Required by the
pack:linux{32|64}:debtasks ingulpfileto create the Linux installers.
Quick install on OS X:
brew install wine makensis
sudo gem install fpm
gulp pack:osx64
gulp pack:win32
gulp pack:linux{32|64}:deb
The output is in ./dist. Take a look at gulpfile.coffee for additional tasks.
TIP: use the --toolbar parameter to quickly build the app with the toolbar on. E.g. gulp build:win32 --toolbar.
TIP: use gulp build:win32 --noicon to quickly build the Windows app without the icon.
TIP: for OS X, use the run:osx64 task to build the app and run it immediately.
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 WhatsApp Web itself; this is just a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web, more akin to a browser than any WhatsApp software.
Contributions are welcome! For feature requests and bug reports please submit an issue.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 Alexandru Rosianu
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.