WhatsApp Messenger

Actually does

• ✓Messaging85% of reviews
• ✓Voice calls30% of reviews
• ✓Video calls10% of reviews
• ✓Group chats5% of reviews
• ✓Voice notes8% of reviews
• ✓File sharing12% of reviews
• ✓Push Notifications(bonus)8% of reviews
• ✓Free tier2% of reviews
• ✓Sync across devices2% of reviews
• ✓No account required5% of reviews

Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews

• ⚠End-to-end encryption
• ⚠Wear OS support
• ⚠Offline-first
• ⚠Статусы (исчезающие за 24 часа)
• ⚠Location Tracking

Common complaints

• ✗Messages and calls not sending/arriving32% of mentions

  «Messages won't send. You write a message to someone and it won't send, you come back half an hour later and it still hasn't sent»

• ✗App not working, crashes, fails to load28% of mentions

  «The app often just doesn't work. Won't update and doesn't work. After updating it doesn't work at all»

• ✗Data loss during update or transfer to new phone8% of mentions

  «Lost all important documents. It was lagging heavily, deleted it, downloaded again, empty, almost nothing left»

• ✗Lags, freezing, slow content loading12% of mentions

  «I like everything but WhatsApp lags a lot. What's with these freezes? Messages and files send very poorly»

• ✗Notification issues (no sound, not displaying on top)4% of mentions

  «Notifications don't come through, or rather there's no sound at all, and they don't display on top during calls»

What people praise

• ★Convenience and ease of use of the messenger

  «The most convenient messenger of all! convenient»

• ★Core functionality works well

  «Great. Super. Excellent. Perfect. Just awesome»

• ★Completely free app with no subscriptions

  «FREE app for video calls and messaging»

• ★Wide popularity and accessibility

  «more than two billion people in more than 180 countries»

• ★Encrypted messaging (E2E)

Where to install