Whats4Linux is a third-party WhatsApp client for Desktop Linux, made collaboratively by the Linux User Group of VIT Chennai.
Features:
- No Meta tracking/analytics
- Customisable CSS, JS, and animation bezier curves
- Free, open source, and copyleft (AGPL-3.0 license)
- System Tray icon and Notifications for Wayland
- Reliable, ironed out visual and backend bugs
Tech Specs:
- A GUI client built on whatsmeow WhatsApp Web API wrapper, with better coverage/feature parity to the official WhatsApp Web Client.
- Written using Wails library for Go (no PWA/Webview wrapper scam here), and - React for the frontend.
- Lightweight and fast
- 99% written by Humans
More details on the GitHub page.
AppImage, Flake.nix, .dmg, and .exe available for Desktop Linux, NixOS, MacOS, and Windows.
We hope this will bring Adversarial Interoperability to Indians and make it easy for them to enjoy control over the walled gardens they rely on for daily life. We hope it inspires a spattering of interoperability efforts on other walled gardens for Indian needs.