“Now more than ever, people are using technology to stay in touch with the people they care about, even when physically apart. While many of us are staying home and practicing social distancing during the global COVID-19 pandemic, live video conferencing apps have become the need of the hour and Facebook’s Messenger desktop app would definitely make it a little bit easier for users to keep in touch with their near and dear ones.
However, the timing to unveil its standalone desktop app couldn’t be better though. The desktop app for Facebook messenger has arrived around a year after it was first announced at last year’s F8 developer conference. Messenger's native desktop version also supports group chats and emoji reactions.Facebook has recently launched the much-awaited desktop version of its Messenger app for Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s macOS, allowing its users to chat and host group video calls with their friends and family right from their big computer screens. There's dark mode as well to reduce eye strain in low light settings. Messenger's desktop version features similar capabilities as its mobile client such as voice and video chat support. The benefit of this is that the app works on older macOS versions as well and not just Catalina. The app is built using Electron, a tool for developing apps for the desktop from a web app, instead of Catalyst. It's not clear for now when the app will be available in the Mac App Store in the U.S. The app has been spotted on the Mac App Store in France, courtesy of MacGeneration. Although a tad late, Messenger for macOS appears to be just rolling out now to users in some territories including France, Australia, Mexico, and Poland (via 9to5Mac). Facebook revealed during its F8 developer conference last year that it was planning to bring a new dedicated Messenger app to macOS and Windows in the fall of 2019.
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