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.

Requires OS X 10.8+, Linux or Windows.

Enable the dark mode in the settings or tray menu.

$ brew cask install whatsdesktop

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

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

Download and unzip to some location.

Run WhatsDesktop.exe

Built with Electron.

• 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)

MIT © Marcel Wiehle