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WhatsApp Unofficial

by Ashish Choubey

Desktop client for web messaging

Sandboxed Verified creator
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About

An unofficial desktop client for WhatsApp Web, giving it the desktop integration a browser tab cannot: a tray icon, native notifications, unread badges and multiple independent accounts. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Meta Platforms, Inc. or WhatsApp Inc.

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • repository is 14 day(s) old with 0 star(s): no track record yet
    publisher:new-repo
  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
    source:prebuilt
  • hosted by github.com/aschoube, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.aschoube.whatsapp-unofficial
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.