WhatsApp Messenger 2.2049.10 – Free download for PC

At this stage, everyone knows what WhatsApp is. What not everyone knows is that this instant chat and messaging app is not only designed to run on Android and iPhone smartphones, but can also be installed on a computer for desktop use with its official application and without the need for third party development.

Download the WhatsApp client for Windows

Therefore, the company owned by Facebook has met its requirements users who wanted to be able to chat from their computer as well as other alternatives on WhatsApp allowed them to do before, as with Telegram, LINE or Facebook Messenger. With WhatsApp Messenger for computers, we can perform exactly the same functions we would do from our phone.

Watch the conversations that started on your phone on your computer.

How does WhatsApp work on a computer?

Remember WhatsApp Web, the version of the application for browsers? Well, this is similar. If the online version worked from a window in Chrome or Firefox where we had to read a QR code from our phone by selecting the Web option from the settings, here it is the same: run the application and read the QR code from your phone. The truth is that it is just a browser dedicated to chat.

Both your contacts and your conversations will be displayed on your computer as well as on your phone, so you can continue the conversations you left in standby mode. The only problem is that you need to have your phone turned on and an active data plan.

Forget weird versions like Plus, Desktop and more: this is the official version.

Main characteristics

This version of WhatsApp for Windows comes with the following functions and features:

• Sending messages to contacts.
• Team management.
• Upload photos and videos to your hard drive or shoot with your webcam.
• Configure user settings.
• Save conversations directly to your computer.
• Record voice messages with your microphone.
• Functional and elegant user interface.
• Look for text in your discussions.
• Receive desktop alerts.

You will not need to monitor your phone. your notifications and chats now on your desktop.

As you can see, it is a simple export of the application to your computer desktop. So you will not be able to know who your boyfriend or girlfriend is what happens with or with whom your friend is talking … stop trying to spy on people.

How many users does WhatsApp have?

The strangest thing is how long it takes to have a version of Windows. Especially because we are talking about most popular chat program in the world according to data provided by the company: over one billion users in February 2016 and the most popular application in countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy or Germany.

Quite a great detail considering that it was was bought by Facebook for an incredible $ 21 billion which has already installed Messenger on millions of smartphones. As a result, Mark Zuckerberg now controls the vast majority of mobile communications worldwide.

What’s new in the latest version

• Users in India can now send money via WhatsApp.