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Instantly reach the people in your life—for free. Messenger is just like texting, but you don't have to pay for every message (it works with your data plan).
Not just for Facebook friends: Message people in your phone book and just enter a phone number to add a new contact.
Group chats: Create groups for the people you message most. Name them, set group photos and keep them all in one place.
Photos and videos: Shoot videos and snap selfies or other photos right from the app and send them with one tap.
Chat heads: Keep the conversation going while you use other apps.
Free calls: Talk as long as you want, even with people in other countries. (Calls are free over Wi-Fi. Otherwise, standard data charges apply.)
Even more ways to message:
Bring your conversations to life with stickers.
Preview your gallery photos and videos without leaving the conversation--then choose the perfect ones to send.
Record voice messages when you have more to say.
Extra features:
Know when people have seen your messages.
Forward messages or photos to people who weren't in the conversation.
Search for people and groups to quickly get back to them.
Turn on location to let people know when you're nearby.
See who's available on Messenger and who's active on Facebook.
Create shortcuts to get to any conversation right from your home screen.
Turn off notifications when you're working, sleeping or just need a break.
Stay logged in so you never miss a message.
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3.9
25,557,046 total
5 13,974,279
4 4,059,285
3 2,502,122
2 1,238,360
1 3,782,912
ALIN SONNY
Should be options I dont want to have two app. Messenger should be optional not compulsory. Not happy with having 2 apps. Preffered doing messaging like normal as before. It sucks now. Please Change this back to normal fb messaging. Thank you.
Rebel Renegade
Facebook needs to go back!! Facebook needs to go back to being able to send messages within the facebook app. There should be no need for 2 apps for facebook, it takes up to much storage space.
KlarietyKutor3
Was happy to try it, now I hate it It didnt even load on my phone and my phone has alot of storage and its new, it crashed into a white screen. Not impressed with this app.
Allen Graham
Help My messenger randomly stopped giving push notifications. All my settings seem to be correct and as they were but it isn't doing anything other having the 1 appear on top of the icon
Yashashwi Kr
Has created monopoly. Can't read messages when I use my browser. As this playstore page keeps on appearing whenever I open my messages. Had to download it because of this monopoly policy.
Fico Zdraveski
I think they might be some kind of a bug; when I try to delete something I have written, using the backspace button, it sometimes deletes two spaces/letters back instead of one. Pls fix this, it doesn't happen very often, but it is quite annoying when it does.
User reviews
Worst spyware, too many permissions. Del orig app Just read your latest reviews. Very Bad. Un install it now after 1 hours. I DO NOT want to give you all requested permissions and all my contacts, calendar, and pictures. After uninstall now my Android Messenger is GONE. Looks like I have to reinstall android on this tablet. Very Bad
Just Don't Understand Why should I have this separate App to check messages on Facebook when I already have the Facebook App? If I were on my laptop or iPad I wouldn't need this. I should be able to do the same thing on Facebook as if I was on larger devices. This App as well as other like Apps take up much needed space on my phone. I'm more limited on taking pictures, and videos. I'd like it if Facebook would allow use to view our messages the old way.
Camera :( I love using the app minus one peice. The camera within the app is a bit messed up. Everytime I try to take a photo within the app it freezes on the image and blocks me from doing anything else. The only way to get it off my screen is to lock and unlock the phone. However, if I click on the bubble to try to go back into the app, I get stuck on the frozen screen again. It makes the app difficult to use.
Strange and unexpected I recently had an issue with messenger, I opened the app and started messaging my friend and out of nowhere it just closes, opened the app again and it did the same thing. Happened 6 7 times and I don't know why. Made the update so what's going on. I am frustrated and angry and I am so close to uninstalling. Fix this issue and I will give 5 stars.
Gestapobook Zee gestapobook should perfect a product b_efore attempting enhance it. I find quite ridiculous to have to uninstall and install this app. Sincerely a person waiting for a better social media platform. This why snapchat is winning the messenger market. Now that I've checked my message I'm uninstalling again. Waste
Unlike Facebook is trying to force this app on me, I'm using the webpage as opposed to the app because I want to use Facebook less. Every time I try and go the messages section the messenger page opens in the playstore asking me to install it. After back and forth 3 times it finally allows me to view the messages. Stop the dictatorship Facebook
Annoying Cant log out is so annoying. I wish u could "select all" or select/highlight more than 1 inbox msg at a time and delete all selected in 1 go... at least then it'd do something I find useful instead of beinv forced to download an app which i dont use ANY of the other features...to me its just an inbox. Ugh.
hate it it would be awesome if it didn't mess my phone up so much. i love the features but I hate the fact that you HAVE to have it to msg people. it seriously screws my phone completely up.. makes it freeze nonstop, force closes, drains battery, etc. I wish they would fix it. no matter how many times I update it its still horrible and makes my phone not work. I have a Samsung galaxy.
Always trying to load Was a great app. Now takes forever to download. Just had circle spinning for ever. I'm on 4g and Turbo Wi-Fi. Nexus 6P so not what I'm using. Please fix before I'm out. 2/20/16 update. I wrote then again about the problem, no answer as before. Facebook DOES NOT CARE!! I'M LEAVING, I SEE WHY SO MANY ARE!!! I'd gives it 0 Star if I could. Another update today. It still has the same problem Facebook why aren't you really try to fix the problem instead of keep just pushing out updates it don't help it. This thi
Decent but Notification tones rarely work. It'll not work for maybe 100 messages then it'll randomly work once then not work for another 100. (Actually much more than 100) Running 6.0 but it never worked right on 5.0 or 4.0+ either. Really surprised after all this time you still haven't fixed this. I guarantee its not just me, after all it hasn't worked on multiple Android versions
Nexus 6 I noticed that other phones, such as the Samsung Galaxies, use a different version. The difference is a blue bar at the top, a much smoother UI and a floating action that provides actions in kne central place. Not sure why the version for the Nexus 6 anyways does not include that. The app should have one design for all phones, not fragmented designs. And that is why I am eating this app one star. I would like to see the additional capabilities carry over, as well as the design.
Ridiculously Large And Outrageously Bloated My problem is that it uses over 140 MB of storage! This is ridiculously large for a messaging app. Stickers, pictures, UI, all the above are necessary. However, those shouldn't add up into almost 150 MB of storage. This app is incredibly bloated and needs to be reduced. Recent updates have made it terrifically large, and Facebook knows it. The download itself is misleadingly listed at 40 MB. This is outrageous! Facebook should know better and can easily do better.The app size needs to go down!
Garbage I'm having conversations on Facebook but when I go to the messenger I can't find my conversations unless I search for the person. My page got blocked for what somebody else did on a Facebook page for 3 days and now I had an emergency and tried to switch to my daughter's account and Facebook blocked me on that. Fb is horrible. I hope someone comes with something better.
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What's New
Now you can see your call history and missed calls—all in one place.
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Updated
April 20, 2016
Size
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Installs
1,000,000,000 - 5,000,000,000
Current Version
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Requires Android
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Interactive Elements
Users Interact, Shares Info, Shares Location
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