WhatsDesktop

Unofficial WhatsApp app

Heavily inspired and adapted from Caprine by Sindre Sorhus.

Note: In order to use this app a WhatsApp Web compatible device is required.

[![](media/screenshot.png)](https://github.com/mawie81/whatsdesktop/releases/latest)

Requires OS X 10.8+, Linux or Windows.

Install

OS X

Homebrew Cask

$ brew cask install whatsdesktop

Manually

Download, unzip, and move WhatsDesktop.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 whatsdesktop.desktop with the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=WhatsDesktop
Exec=/full/path/to/folder/whatsdesktop
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/full/path/to/folder/WhatsDesktop/resources/app/media/logo-symbol.png

Windows

Download and unzip to some location.

Run WhatsDesktop.exe

Dev

Built with Electron.

Commands

Init: $ npm install
Run: $ npm start
Build OS X: $ npm run build-osx
Build Linux: $ npm run build-linux
Build all: $ npm run build (OS X only)

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