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Messenger, back on your desktop. A small, native app for your chats on macOS, Windows and Linux.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 102 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: video chat and messaging apps · 100 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- desktop-app
- facebook-messenger
- linux
- macos
- messenger
- rust
- +2 more
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More like this: all 100 launches in video chat and messaging apps →
Could you build this?
Yes A thin native wrapper around facebook.com/messages with notifications, shortcuts, and an unread badge is standard desktop-app work, and the site describes it as open source with no server.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 212 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 213 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 367 days after the earliest competitor.
- fMess · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- KT Messenger · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Messenger Classic — MSN is back. · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ADL Messenger · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- iBoomto Local Chat · ph · 2026-10-31 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hearth · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- No Internet Messenger · ph · 2026-10-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Jora Messenger · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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