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A feature-rich desktop client for WhatsApp Web. Native window, system tray, notifications, chat themes, privacy blur, multiple accounts, spell-check and more — on Linux and Windows, with an experimental macOS build.

What's new in 6.8.1

Group invite links now open (#186). Clicking a chat.whatsapp.com group invite (which reaches the app as a whatsapp://chat?code=… link) used to do nothing. Whatly now opens WhatsApp Web's own "Join group" preview for it, so the invite can be accepted from the desktop app. A sound for new-message notifications (#120). Notifications now ask the desktop's notification service to play its new-message sound, which some setups stayed silent without. It is on by default and can be turned off under Notifications with the new "Play sound" option. Voice and video calls now open in their own Whatly window. WhatsApp Web's "Move to new window" during a call (the call popout) used to do nothing: the window request was handed to the browser or discarded, so the popped-out call had nowhere to live. Whatly now hosts that popout in a proper Whatly window, with the microphone, camera and screen-share permissions it needs, and closes it when the call ends. Genuine external links still open in your browser as before. Voice and video calls themselves work out of the box (#106, #43, #287, #112, #218, #187). Each account tab shows its WhatsApp Web version. Hovering an account tab now lists the WhatsApp Web version in use and the page build token, so a mismatch between accounts is visible at a glance. The tooltip is translated into all sixteen languages.

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