![]() I am now back to using SSD as my main hard drive where my Mac is booted on. It basically does this every time you open up Franz. It went like this out of nowehere like a screensaver, and I waited 10 seconds for it to go back to messenger mode. The only downside I can find is that it just keeps asking you to purchase Franz Professional. How it feels when using the web app is the exact same feel when using Franz and I can say that it feels much master than Caprine when loading the stickers. It feels lighter than Caprine, but the messenger part is simply a web app of the official Messenger. Franz currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype and many more. Franz is the former Emperor of Austria - but also a messaging app that combines chat & messaging services into one application. The only thing I love about it is that it loads much faster. I’m not sure what this is built on, but it is faster than Caprine, but I wish it had Caprine's awesome features. Now here’s something I’d like to introduce to you. This is the lightest among other non-native Messengers. It looks similar to Caprine actually but as I said, way way less features. The whole thing after logging in is just a browser. That’s Goofy for you! Now that I’ve tried Goofy too, I can say it really is much lighter. It could be faster because it has much less features than Caprine, obviously. Goofy is another unoffical Messenger mac app. I see a dark empty window first for a maybe 15 to 30 seconds until t loads the messenger web page. After a day of using it, I realized how long it takes to open the app. There are still some features that load like a web page, like when choosing stickers or when loading a conversation from another friend. Although, it looks native enough actually. It is build on javascript/ Electron hence it is not native. It looks way more sophisticated than Chatmate but it doesn’t feel as snappy. Only pictures of your friends will be shown on the side. There’s also a compact mode on this app which hides away the names if your window is tinier. You can also choose to make its mode independent from the system’s appearance. If you changed your system’s appearance to light mode, the app will also turn light mode. Say you are in dark mode, the app will also be in dark mode. It also allows you to follow the system’s appearance of your mac. As you can see, I didn’t have to pixelate the names of my friends because they have this feature to hide names and avatars. Caprine is an unofficial and privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app with many useful features. They both gave me a tip on a similar app but not found on the app store. Thanks to u/Auttoh and aadillyas for responding on my Reddit link post of this blog post. I’m going to keep on using it because it’s way faster than loading the messenger website. ![]() Other than that, I’m satisfied with the app. The light mode is actually more gray than white.It definitely looks more suited to the light mode. Some text like Chat is meant to be brighter on this dark mode.As you can see on the photo, the user’s icon is overlapping the window frame’s buttons.Its font is too thin and the spacing around the text of the button is just not well thought of. ![]() Just a plane white button with no rounded edges. The login button is especially horrible looking.The login fields look alright, but the placeholder doesn’t say the username can be accepted too.What can I say? It really looks native, but it is half-baked. It has decent amount of stars as rating, but does it really live up to it? I’ve scrolled deep enough to see there’s no other like it. So I looked for an app on the Mac App Store and there’s not much apps out there for native Mac OS app look of Messenger. It takes quite a while to load Facebook messenger on my Chrome browser. I’m currently on Mojave and I just thought that it’s time I use an app for messenger.
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