The brand new WhatsApp for Mac provides video and audio group calling

WhatsApp has launched a redesigned, native WhatsApp app for macOS that brings group calls to Apple’s desktop working system. The app helps as much as eight individuals in a gaggle video session and as many as 32 in an audio name, each of which could have the identical end-to-end encryption featured in its app on different platforms. The app was beforehand in open beta.

Along with video calling, customers can drag and drop recordsdata into chats, and the corporate says the app additionally exhibits extra chat historical past. The design, Meta says, is meant to be “acquainted to Mac customers,” with a UI that higher fits the bigger display screen of a desktop machine. Certainly, the app borrows much more from the macOS built-in Messages than the earlier app, as you’ll be able to see on this screenshot from my very own pc:

The brand new macOS WhatsApp app (left) vs. iMessage (prime proper) vs. the previous macOS WhatsApp app (backside proper). Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge

For now, you’ll have to obtain the app straight from WhatsApp, however Meta writes that it’s going to come to the macOS App Retailer quickly.