![]() Update1: With the recent changes and updates from WhatsApp, now you can use WhatsApp on Windows 10, 8.1 PC and Mac OS X with Google Chrome browser and Android phone. Last year, the Meta subsidiary launched a new Communities feature as it tries to become a more credible communication tool for organizations and workplaces. Update2: This post has been updated with Windows 10 by using the latest Bluestacks version. With over 2 billion users as of February 2020, WhatsApp remains one of the most popular messaging apps that also offers end-to-end encryption for all messages. Since it’s still in beta, it may not always work as expected, but it does look pretty solid already. Overall, this new WhatsApp for Mac app also seems to be faster than the previous client. The new WhatsApp for Mac app (image credit: ) This new sidebar also features a nice background blur effect, but you can hide it if you prefer the app to use less screen real estate. The new beta client adds a new sidebar providing quick access to chats, calls, archived, and starred messages. It’s now the time to give the beta app a look. Instead, WhatsApp for macOS is built with Catalyst, so we have a higher performance and the app uses fewer resources in terms of memory. While there’s still no WhatsApp app for iPad, WABetaInfo believes that such an app has been in the pipeline for years.ĭue to this new Mac app using Apple’s Catalyst framework, it does look much more native than the previous version, which looked more like a web wrapper for WhatsApp for web. It is true that there is already another desktop app for WhatsApp on macOS, but it is built with a framework called Electron to wrap WhatsApp Web. This new WhatsApp for Mac app is built with Apple’s Catalyst framework, which allows developers to create Mac apps using code from their iPad apps. Until now, the new beta app was only accessible via Apple’s TestFlight platform, but all Mac users running macOS Big Sur or newer can now download it from the official WhatsApp website (via WABetaInfo). WhatsApp has made the new native version of its macOS app available in open beta.
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