
Similar to the above-mentioned apps, Friendly combines Facebook with Facebook Messenger, while also saving considerably more energy.

This will most likely be the case as long as Metal and Swipe remain exclusively available for Android. We have compiled both the best wrappers and multi-messaging apps, which can be used as Facebook Messenger alternatives on Android or iOS.įor iOS users, Friendly ( Android and iOS) is one of the best alternatives alternative to Facebook Messenger. The latter are apps that read Facebook's website and 'repack' the data for you.

However, a distinction is made between multi-messaging apps, which combine many different messaging services in a single app, and so-called wrappers. There are now numerous alternatives to Facebook Messenger on the market. Facebook Messenger constantly scans internal data such as contacts, browser history, calendar info, and even GPS data. This should also ring alarm bells when it comes to data protection. This becomes especially annoying when you realize that the app always runs in the background, consuming both battery power and data. Since Facebook deactivated the messaging feature within their mobile app, users appear to have no choice but to switch to the separate Messenger app. So in case you are Mac OS X user, you can just download and sign in and get the standalone app for Facebook Messenger.Facebook's official messenger app is the obvious way for many smartphone users to chat and share content with their social media contacts. Facebook just announced their new Messenger standalone service for web browsers and we have a new app called Messenger for Mac which brings in the Messenger service to a standalone app. The company declined to comment on a leaked photo obtained by TechCrunch, which appears to.

Facebook appears to be working on a Messenger desktop app for Mac computers, according to TechCrunch. Whether you're checking your Twitter DMs, GChats (Google Talk), Facebook Messenger messages, or iMessages, you can have most of them in one place with a dedicated chat client. Having launched a Facebook Messenger app for mobile devices that has people either lauding the thing or lamenting Facebook’s decision to break it out from the Facebook app itself, the social network has today gone one step further by making a Facebook Messenger Web app available. Messenger for Mac appears to have a navigation tab bar in the bottom left with options matching the Messenger for iOS mobile app, including Recent, Groups, People and Settings.
