We have always said that WhatsApp has rested on its laurels and that despite having more than nine hundred million registered users, they do not put all the effort they should in developing and improving their application. Options such as Telegram are conquering the market and more and more users are switching to this option, either because of the new features that are included in the mobile version of the application as the perfect integration of the same in the system of Apple computers.
WhatsApp developers, In an effort to be equated with Telegram or Line, they launched WhatsApp Web a long time ago, his bet that you can use the instant messaging application on devices other than phones.
Proof that WhatsApp developers want to reach more and more people is the statement they have made informing that the charge of 0,99 euros per year for making use of it is eliminated. Now becomes free on all mobile platforms. However, what we come to talk about today is an application for OS X that he talked about our partner Jesús Arjona as early as December 2015.
This is DesktopChat for WhatsApp, an application that despite being free for thirty days, later becomes paid at a price of $ 0,99. It is not the only option that we can find in the MacApp Store, since options such as ChitChat are the ones that have inspired this developer. These are options in which the WhatsApp Web itself has been used for its development.
When we install it, the first thing it shows us is that the application is free for 30 days and then we have to pay $ 0,99 to buy the pro version. On the next screen they inform that in order to use all the functions of WhatsApp Web such as taking photos and recording voice messages, they advise that we use the browser Google Chrome, Mozilla, Firefox or Opera. We can see that Safari is not named as an option and that is why we have realized that this application is nothing more than an adaptation of its own Web WhatsApp to an application environment for OS X.
Today we have spoken to you again about this application because in a short space of time it has been updated with great news and already going for version 1.2 which, in addition to being fully translated into Spanish, has the following new features:
- Access code for the application launch.
- Security against programs keylogger and you walk de input buttons en the screen.
- Encrypted in the lkeychain of OS X.
- Now it is possible to leave through the menu principal.
- Price full pro version visible before starting the buying process.
- Several bug fixes.
It is certainly an application that you could try and see if it is finally worth the $ 0,99. From what I have been able to prove, for the simple fact that you have notifications and you can be working on the Mac and receive your messages deserves the outlay of $ 0,99. This is not to say that the web version does not allow notifications, but having an application on the Mac dedicated to WhatsApp is always better than a direct access to a URL.
Download | DesktopChat for WhatsApp
Better a free alternative. https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat