fMess
The Messenger desktop app is gone. This one isn't.
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Meta shut down the Messenger desktop app. fMess puts your chats back in a real window on Mac, Windows and Linux: system notifications, unread badge, calls, keyboard shortcuts. About 5 MB, free and open source. It can even look like Zalo or WhatsApp.
PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: private and secure messaging apps · 144 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -41% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Messaging
- Open Source
- GitHub
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 144 launches in private and secure messaging apps →
Could you build this?
Yes A desktop wrapper around the Messenger web app, with notifications and shortcuts, is a standard Electron-style project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 356 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #174 of 357 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.
- fmess · github · 2026-10-31 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- No Internet Messenger · ph · 2026-10-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Lynx | Delete Facebook Messages · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ADL Messenger · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Omut · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Waggle · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Messenger Classic — MSN is back. · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Gonchat · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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