Whats4Linux: A Desktop Linux client for WhatsApp
Derpitron Sat 29 Aug 2026 3:33PMPublicSeen by 47Whats4Linux 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
Made by humans, not AI
More details on the GitHub page.
https://github.com/lugvitc/whats4linux
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.
DerpitronMon 31 Aug 2026 1:17PM
@Akshay So far none of our members have been banned. There's also the fact this uses the whatsmeow library, which is just a Whatsapp Web Multi-device API wrapper, meaning everything goes through Whatsapp's official affordances
As of the last 2-3 months, a few commits were AI generated, and I'm guessing some of the documentation too. But 99% of all code and architecture was human written and designed. No AI could write Golang code as offensively disorganised as us lol
Akshay ·Sun 30 Aug 2026 6:16AM
I do think at least some of the commits are AI generated, but it is good to see this work. Are you able to avoid getting banned when using this?