I have been looking for one for a long time now, but I haven't found even one working port of Whatsapp web for ubuntu.
There was one called whatsie if I remember correctly, but now it doesn't work anymore because the version of chrome is old, or something like that.
Thanks in advance! :)
You can also just create a Chrome launcher for Whatsapp Web like this:
Use Chrome browser to go to https://web.whatsapp.com and follow the instructions to connect your phone.
Go to Chrome settings ⇒ More tools ⇒ Create shortcut. Check "Open as window" and press "Create". This will create a desktop launcher to Whatsapp web that opens in its own window. Allow desktop notifications (if needed).
And that's it! I assume this workaround works for Chromium as well, but haven't tried it yet.
PS.This method works also for Google Calendar, Google Keep and such tools for which there is no (official) linux client available.
I don't use any Whatsapp client on Ubuntu, but from my computer I use Whatsapp web:
It's an official Whatsapp web site meaning as trustable as Whatsapp phone app. There are plenty of Firefox extensions that work with it.
There is also whatsdesk, an unofficial client for Ubuntu. It appears in KDE Discover results when "Whatsapp" is searched, so you can probably have a look into your software center to. You can also install it with:
sudo snap install whatsdesk
But I have never tested it and it's unofficial, so I would look for users feedback first...
Following this article, I tried up Rambox on my Mint installation. Works perfectly with Whatsapp so far. It has a free edition (like Franz) but doesn't have the annoying ads that block the app for 10 seconds every few hours.
On my Ubuntu 16.04.5LTS system, apt-cache search shows me:
$ apt-cache search whatsapp
iwatch - realtime filesystem monitoring program using inotify
python-yowsup - library to implement a WhatsApp client
yowsup-cli - command line tool that acts as WhatsApp client
Have you tried yowsup-cli?
I use a chrome app called WhatsChrome. it is very good. Give it a try. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whatschrome/bgkodfmeijboinjdegggmkbkjfiagaan
There's an alternative which could be very helpful too.
Franz: You can get it from https://meetfranz.com/. It will also help you with more than just having WhatsApp on your Ubuntu, in fact, it is a messaging app that combines chat & messaging services into one application.
Hope it is of help to you.
There are lots of recommendations in this thread for desktop wrappers around WhatsApp Web. This is not the same as WhatsApp Desktop, which has additional features like video calling.
Anyone making recommendations along these lines should specify what they are referring to.
I actually use Fedora, so the .desktop and other file paths may probably be different in Ubuntu.
OBS: This is similar to other answers, but it differs because by following the instructions below you will you have an app-like experience instead of a regular chrome window.
Anyway, the idea is essentially the same: You can create a file named chome-whataspp.desktop on your .local/share/applications/ directory that launches chrome in the app mode (a separate window, with no tabs and that act as a desktop app. Even the tray icon will show as the whatsapp logo istead of chrome's icon).
OBS: You'll need to download a png Whatsapp logo (not for the tray, which is loaded from the web page, but for the launcher). This is easy to find one with a transparent background in google images.
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome -app="https://web.whatsapp.com/"
Terminal=false
Icon=<path to a png logo file, (e.g. /home/<user>/Icons/WhatsApp.png)>
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;
Icon[C]=<path to a png logo file, (e.g. /home/<user>/Icons/WhatsApp.png)>
Name[C]=WhatsApp (Chrome)
Name=WhatsApp (Chrome)
Comment[C]=WhatsApp (chrome in app mode)
Comment=Direct link to WhatsApp web in chrome app mode
I use WazzApp.
It runs as a standalone app and it's basically the same as the web app with some tweaks to increase functionality.
https://github.com/diospiroverde/WazzApp
Probably right now you have seen a lot of answers to your questions. But I would recommend you to only use official website (https://web.whatsapp.com/) for this purpose as it's official and has minimal risks. Although many plugins/client can give you the desired results but they're not official and are 3rd party softwares which can't be trusted. They can easily spy on you.
Yes, there is! Look here: https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/whatsapp-desktop
This is a debian package dedicated for Linux Mint but it works perfectly on Ubuntu (I am normally using Linux Mint on my PC but I have recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop and I just installed it also there - no difference;)
If you have problem with that link on Ubuntu, use this one: https://mint.pkgs.org/19.3/mint-import-amd64/whatsapp-desktop_0.6.1_amd64.deb.html (Download section, there is a direct link to a binary package).
WALC is quite good, it has tray icon, and desktop notifications: https://github.com/cstayyab/WALC
Alternatively you can try Qtwaw, which is Qt based based wrapper. But you would have to build it manually and I also could not get the tray icon and notifications to work: https://gitlab.com/scarpetta/qtwaw
Not specifically, but this one will fulfil your needs.
For those who do not want to open WhatsApp as a tab on their browsers, can open WhatsApp in its own window on Linux and this works in most distributions. It will even come in the alt+tab menu.
I am not sure if this works in other chromium browsers, I could not find the Apps menu in Chrome and Chromium, it just creates a shortcut and nothing else.
Thanks
This desktop client app was launched in June 2020, and the latest release 1.4.1 came out in January 2022. The developer, Enes Can, is supported by 8 other contributors as of February 2022.
It's available in Snap Store as well as Arch Linux, Gentoo, NixOS and OpenMandriva repositories, in addition to the source code plus AppImage (200+ MB), Snap (100+ MB) and DEB (<100 KB) packages at: https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux
There is a Pidgin plugin for Whatsapp, called purple-gowhatsapp. It is cross-platform. I have used it on windows and it works!
Personally, I prefer this because I find the official Whatsapp Web or WhatsApp Desktop UI to have too large visual elements and clunky.
There are some missing features as noted on their webpage, but the plugin seems to be actively developed.
