Feature rich WhatsApp web client based on Qt WebEngine for Linux Desktop

• Light and Dark Themes with automatic switching
• Customized Notifications & Native Notifications
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• BuiltIn download manager
• Mute Audio, Disable Notifications
• App Lock feature
• Hardware access permission manager
• Built in Spell Checker (with support for 31 Major languages)
• Other settings that let you control every aspect of WebApp like:
  • Do not disturb mode
  • Full view mode, lets you expand the main view to the full width of the window
  • Ability to switch between Native & Custom notification
  • Configurable notification popup timeout
  • Mute all audio from Whatapp
  • Disabling auto playback of media
  • Minimize to tray on application start
  • Toggle to enable single click hide to the system tray
  • Switching download location
  • Enable disable app lock on application start
  • Auto-locking after a certain interval of time
  • App lock password management
  • Widget styling
  • Configurable auto Theme switching based on day night time
  • Configurable close button action
  • Global App shortcuts
  • Permission manager let you toggle camera mic and other hardware level permissions
  • Configurable page zoom factor, switching based on window state maximized on normal
  • Configurable App User Agent
  • Application Storage management, lets you clean residual cache and persistent data

Comes with general CLI support, with a bunch of options that let you interact with already running instances of Whatsie.

Run: whatsie -h to see all supported options.

Usage: whatsie [options]
Feature rich WhatsApp web client based on Qt WebEngine

Options:
  -h, --help           Displays help on commandline options
  -v, --version        Displays version information.
  -b, --build-info     Shows detailed current build infomation
  -w, --show-window    Show main window of running instance of WhatSie
  -s, --open-settings  Opens Settings dialog in a running instance of WhatSie
  -l, --lock-app       Locks a running instance of WhatSie
  -i, --open-about     Opens About dialog in a running instance of WhatSie
  -t, --toggle-theme   Toggle between dark & light theme in a running instance
                       of WhatSie
  -r, --reload-app     Reload the app in a running instance of WhatSie
  -n, --new-chat       Open new chat prompt in a running instance of WhatSie

• git, cmake >= 3.24, ninja-build
• Qt6 >= 6.0 (qt6-base-dev, qt6-webengine-dev, qt6-positioning-dev)
• C++17 compiler (GCC 7+, Clang 5+)
• libx11-dev

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install cmake ninja-build qt6-base-dev qt6-webengine-dev \
    qt6-positioning-dev libx11-dev build-essential

Fedora:

sudo dnf install cmake ninja-build qt6-qtbase-devel qt6-qtwebengine-devel \
    qt6-qttools-devel libX11-devel gcc-c++

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S cmake ninja qt6-base qt6-webengine qt6-positioning

git clone https://github.com/keshavbhatt/whatsie.git
cd whatsie
make build-release
./build/whatsie

# Install to /usr/local
make install

# OR install system-wide to /usr
sudo make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

make build-release    # Build in Release mode
make build-debug      # Build in Debug mode
make install          # Install to /usr/local
make run              # Run the built executable
make clean            # Clean build artifacts
make help             # Show all available targets

For detailed build instructions, see BUILD_QUICK_REFERENCE.md

snap install whatsie

Using Arch User Repository (AUR), AUR package for Whatsie is maintained by M0Rf30

yay -S whatsie-git