A lightweight, high-performance WhatsApp Web client wrapper for Windows, engineered using Rust and the Tauri v2 framework.
DISCLAIMER: This project is unofficial and not affiliated with WhatsApp or Meta. This app only loads a webview of
web.whatsapp.cominside a WebView window.
- Ultra-Lightweight: Consumes significantly less memory and resources compared to the official electron-based desktop client.
- System Tray Integration: Minimize to tray seamlessly on closing (
X), keeping your taskbar clean while staying active in the background. Also it can be set to open on startup. - Native Notifications: Fully hooked into the Windows Action Center for native system flyout banners.
- Smart Link Routing: Internal WhatsApp links and deep-links route natively inside the app, while external web links securely bounce out to your system's default browser.
- Deep Linking Protocol Support: Registers
whatsapp://andwapped://schemes at the OS level to automatically catch chat intents from your default web browsers.
You can download the latest automated build directly from our repository's production pipeline:
- Go to the Releases section.
- Download the latest
WhatsApped_*_x64-setup.exeinstaller. - Run the installer.
- Enjoy!