Messenger – Text and Video Chat for Free
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Instantly connect with the people in your life. Messenger is free, fast, and secure.
- Reach anyone. You can use names or phone numbers to find friends.
- Use everywhere. Messenger works across all mobile and desktop devices. You can even connect with people internationally!
- Connect however you want. Send a text message, share a photo, or start a video chat — all in Messenger.
- Communicate better with groups. Catch up in real time with high quality group video chat or customize your messaging experience with colors, nicknames, and group photos.
- Call and video chat your friends 1:1 or in groups. It's free over Wi-Fi (otherwise standard data charges apply), so talk as long as you want, even with people in other countries.
- Express yourself. Send emojis, stickers, and GIFs to conversations or add new masks and effects to your video chats.
- Capture photos and videos with fun art and effects. You can save these to camera roll, send to conversations, or post to your Day, a place where people can see what you're up to.
- Play games and compete with your friends. You can compare scores and see how you rank against other people.
- Chat with businesses. You can make reservations, check on orders, and get real-time customer service.
- Reach anyone. You can use names or phone numbers to find friends.
- Use everywhere. Messenger works across all mobile and desktop devices. You can even connect with people internationally!
- Connect however you want. Send a text message, share a photo, or start a video chat — all in Messenger.
- Communicate better with groups. Catch up in real time with high quality group video chat or customize your messaging experience with colors, nicknames, and group photos.
- Call and video chat your friends 1:1 or in groups. It's free over Wi-Fi (otherwise standard data charges apply), so talk as long as you want, even with people in other countries.
- Express yourself. Send emojis, stickers, and GIFs to conversations or add new masks and effects to your video chats.
- Capture photos and videos with fun art and effects. You can save these to camera roll, send to conversations, or post to your Day, a place where people can see what you're up to.
- Play games and compete with your friends. You can compare scores and see how you rank against other people.
- Chat with businesses. You can make reservations, check on orders, and get real-time customer service.
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4.0
47,806,781 total
5 27,398,322
4 7,165,080
3 4,632,868
2 2,080,771
1 6,529,740
Abdullah Jayed
After the last update it is not showing seen timestamp anymore i want it back
SHARIFUL ISLAM
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Rajko Markus
Consumes lot of space, full of pointless games and animations Smileys also can't chat on Facebook without this, forces to take pictures and much more useless functions which could be installed separatly. Small sized version just for chatting with option downloading extensions would be the best solution. I see pluses just in that it can store photos.
Abdelmadjid Hammou
Fast, free and well crafted, although somewhat buggier than it used to be. The past few years have seen the apparition of a few gimmicks (My Day, masks & filters, games) but still, it's Facebook so everyone has an account, and that's really what matters the most with a messaging client. Syncs reasonably well with the web and Windows client too.
ashley Velasquez
It was good up until today. I've been using it the past two years but somehow people have my location and I don't want them to have that. And also I could be chatting with one person and then the same person I am talking with pops up in a different bubble. I'm so confused right now
Jhing Solito
Last 2 days ago up to now your service has a poor performance. The call and video are very slow, distorted sound or voice on the other line, the video is shaky. Its forcing me all the time to close msn coz its hang or lag always. Please fix it. Thank u.
User reviews
After the last update it is not showing seen timestamp anymore i want it back
Consumes lot of space, full of pointless games and animations Smileys also can't chat on Facebook without this, forces to take pictures and much more useless functions which could be installed separatly. Small sized version just for chatting with option downloading extensions would be the best solution. I see pluses just in that it can store photos.
Fast, free and well crafted, although somewhat buggier than it used to be. The past few years have seen the apparition of a few gimmicks (My Day, masks & filters, games) but still, it's Facebook so everyone has an account, and that's really what matters the most with a messaging client. Syncs reasonably well with the web and Windows client too.
It was good up until today. I've been using it the past two years but somehow people have my location and I don't want them to have that. And also I could be chatting with one person and then the same person I am talking with pops up in a different bubble. I'm so confused right now
Last 2 days ago up to now your service has a poor performance. The call and video are very slow, distorted sound or voice on the other line, the video is shaky. Its forcing me all the time to close msn coz its hang or lag always. Please fix it. Thank u.
tha latest update sucks.. regret updating this app.. they have remove the chat heads in the update.. i want the chat heads back.. i like the chat heads because i could chat anyone without living another app.. i want it back so badly.. been used to it to easily communicate with my friends and schoolmates but now i can't since i have to transfer from one app to another so that i could reply to their message..
Gets worse with every update. Now, I can barely scroll up my messages, as the slightest touch brings up the "Like" emoji selection box. Notifications and Badges have been screwed up for well over a year... They're persistent and recurring, showing me messages, when there are none. Messenger, and in particular chat heads, cause system slowdown, to the point where typing and switching apps can be painfully slow or even unusable. Animated emojis are no longer animated! Using the recorder stops OK Google from being able to access the microphone without a phone reboot.
I have the new note 8. my boyfriend and I both have the same exact phone, but two different versions of messenger. he has features that I don't. we both thought that the notification issue was the phones fault, but it seems to be a Facebook problem as well. I'm not getting notifications from Instagram, Facebook, and messenger. it's very annoying not knowing that someone's messaged me. the only time the notification shows up at the top, is when I open the app and see that someone's messaged me and the notif shows up at the top like it should when you're not on the app. now seeing that it's a Facebook issue rather than it being my phone, I hope an update comes soon to fix it. it's really annoying not knowing right then and there that I've gotten a message.
keeps force closing on me ever since yesterday afternoon I've reported the issue to you several times no one has emailed me back or fixed the issue. I've tried to restart my phone I even uninstalled and reinstalled messenger and it still keeps force closing every time I open it it won't even let me open and read any messages it just force closes right away
It is ok. The only problem is the video chat quality. It the audio part of the chat cuts out sometimes and the video is visibly fuzzy I can see the pixels move and the framwork lags a little bit to much. That is why I gave it a 3 star.
Very unhappy! So unhappy with the updates that I don't have a choice in wither or not they get downloaded or not. The ones that bother me the most are video chatting, notifications, and the appearance of conversations. The update is not right. I have a friend who has the same phone as I do and they can get the special effects offered on video chat but I can't? When I say special effects I am talking about the bubbles or like the hearts that show up on the screen. I don't even get the options to do anything like that. When I get a GIF, They're very choppy videos. Or get a video sent to me on a message. Messager will only tell me I have a message from someone when I open that conversation. It will not notify me like it used to before the update. It will not show up in the notifications, or a chat bubble like it used to. I even tried to uninstall it and reinstall. That didn't work. I can't have a consistent conversation with anyone, anymore. When I am having a conversation with someone, it will look like I just said 5 things in a row. and then appear they said 5 things in a row. So it don't look like a conversation. And it will appear at the top of the page. So it looks all backwards. Its annoying and confusing.
Can someones dumbass fix the keyboard 😒 everytime i try to type, it closes the app.. if it aint fixed soon, im deleting the app and spreading lies so everyone can go back to MySpace 😤💯
Not being able to turn off the free calling feature is ridiculous. You should also be able to block calling from individual people. There is absolutely no available way to turn off receiving calls when you have this app. It's a violation of privacy. Now you also cannot remove messenger contacts(who they add of people you aren't even friends with and have to continuously see active). They replaced the "i" symbol which let you delete contacts, with the wave symbol. Please fix this. I don't want to see when strangers are active. The app also now forces you to have notifications turned on or it displays some really awful reminder at the top indicating to turn on notifications... uhm no the whole point is I don't want the annoying pop ups and then you force them or force me to have a permanent pop up at the top saying I should turn on notifications. Stop forcing things.
Calls are intermittent, super bad quality! Even I have good internet connection (WiFi or mobile data). Please fix this ASAP! I am using Samsung Galaxy S8
Could be high 4 star app. Short comings are lack of privacy. Just let me Not be seen as online. Easy fix. - it shows when last online and if active. Admins should disable. Also the "my day" updates are annoying. Garbage. Please allow to be disabled as well.
I just wish that you could use it without having a facebook account, don't understand the point of splitting them up otherwise. Also the thing that says if you are active should switch off, I want to be invisible sometimes. To be honest the only thing keeping me on this is the fact that everyone else is :/
It just vets worse and worse Why is it separate to the main facebook app? So annoying and a waste of space. Voice quality gets worse each release Video is a joke Not everyone has super fast LTE. You are going to loose Asia because of this Your network stack sucks. UNINSTALLED
Still wondering WHY my stickers keep turning into plain grey squares. Have asked many times for some sort of explanation but just nothing. Great support team... (that was sarcasm)
Trash! Not only does Facebook force you to download the app to check messages, but now their forcing you to connect your number???? I will not be using facebook any longer
The latest updates have by far improved messenger, making it funny and more expressive. For instance, I enjoy being able to see my kids who are currently hrs away from me, and laugh while they "dress up"!
Drop this stupid app and quit policing everything!!! Sounds are retarded, and lies about having messages just to get you to open it, AND MAKES IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO STALK YOU BECAUSE IT TELLS THE HOW LONG AGO YOU USED IT!!!.
latest update caused the active chat head notification in the notification area to now show up as an icon on the top. it was annoying enough before with it just hanging out in the pull down bar, but now I have to see it all the time if I have a chat head open, even if I don't have a message from anyone? then it shows another messenger icon when I get a message..
With all the development power, I would prefer this app to have been built-in the Facebook app. I'm not sure why this has not happened. This is just another app I have to remember to download. Waste of time. For me.
Many a times the app does not show the correct post...what was being posted is duplicated or imposed on old one as double image...it flashed old. one and duplicate effect is. seen..and Vdo can't be saved directly ..we have to send only to messenger contact....sad. It's a boom it opens inspire of "no space" in my cell.. That's a great job.
The last update is horrible. To simply text someone I have to worry where to tap and then if I want to insert a simple Emoji I have to click on the icon, then on Emoji, then on the Emoji I want. So many taps!!! Why give so much priority to stickers, photos, etc? Those are more important than simply texting?
My app keeps crashing, and my chat bubbles won't stay on my screen for more than a couple of minutes, even if I'm in the middle of a conversation. And when I try to open the app, it always takes 2+ minutes to open! I love the convenience, but it just isn't convenient for me anymore. It's too much of a struggle to keep a conversation going! Please fix it, so I can change my review!
Good app but chat bubbles will crash at random and lose everything I wrote. Suspect it's the age old problem with all Facebook apps are using far too much memory.
I'm enjoying Messenger but some time there is very slow internet connection this app isn't connecting property. And Also it's very Big file I Request you to kindly reduce the app size
This app was great, I used it everyday and this last update has made it completely unusable for my phone (Samsung Note 3). The application will not even open now it continually crashes.
Don't know why but my GIFs have an error message on them now so I can't see what I'm sending. Just accidentally sent my 11yr old a Gif which says "massive orgasm". Great.
Like the App however not keen on the new design. You can see which friends are online four ways. Is that necessary? I don't like the online bubbles on top of the message screen and you can't hide them
Worst app ever created. First of all they force us to download this app, and now, innumerable problems. Suddenly stops working. Messages gets delivered after 1week of sending. Also I receive messages late. Then suddenly it shows no network, although I have high speed Internet.
The newest feature "journey" is forced... It sucks and there is no way to turn it off. Either allow me to turn it off or I uninstall the app! Update: because of the newest updat, I open the app and get only a white screen... It no longer works!!!
One little annoying thing for me is that the video chat button is so close to the close button. Sitting in bed half naked at night talking to a friend and accidently pressed that button...That video sure popped up fast...
Even though I have perfect internet connection, it will not load... No matter what I do, I've rebooted my phone several times, unistalled and reistalled it twice and it still doesn't work :(
For the past few months I can no longer share Facebook posts through messenger. When I click on the share button the messenger option is no longer available. No one else I know has this problem. Factory reset hasn't helped nor has reinstalling the app
Please, make it so the creator of the group chat is the only one allowed to remove people because I have been having problems creating group chats because one of the people i added also removes me a.k.a. DA Ijh On , I think you won't add this because I think you don't read feedbacks because your already rich, but if you read this, thank you and please do add this feature.Please.
After latest updates it is really laggy and slow and sluggish, is it just my device or is the messenger slow in general? I noticed it mostly when adding reactions to messages, then even scrolling in the history was choppy, laggy and unresponsive for loooong periods of time. Please fix this!
Told me I had an unread message every time I was on Facebook. No matter how many times I opened it in fb app or messenger I still didn't have an unread message. I had to update the messenger app for the notification to go away. And even then it wasn't a new message, it was a message I had sent! How stupid!
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Now you can see your call history and missed calls—all in one place.
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Updated
September 7, 2017
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1,000,000,000 - 5,000,000,000
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Users Interact, Shares Info, Shares Location
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