Download WeChat for Android

WeChat is a chat application for Android that incorporates calling and video conferencing features in addition to other social media styles.

There is nothing to say, WhatsApp is the big queen of instant messaging and chats for everyone. With over 1,000 million users no one can make it tremble, despite all the applications that have tried to establish themselves as alternatives to this Messenger, such as Telegram, LINE, Facebook, or Skype. However, it is true that in some countries there is not an absolute dominator in the field of messaging, as in China, for example. There, WeChat is all the rage, a very comprehensive chat app that is better than the competition in many ways.

This chat app could be the best if it were more extensive.

Main Features

And in all the functionalities available to face the competition we find all kinds of functionalities and characteristics that approach a social network, in addition to an application to communicate. Here are the most remarkable of the service:

• Multimedia messages: support for text, video, picture, and voice messaging.
• Group chats and calls: the app supports video conferences of 9 participants and chats of 500 people simultaneously.
• Free voice and video calls using VoIP protocol that allows you to communicate with people from all over the world.
• WeChat Out calling system to call landlines and mobiles anywhere in the world but restricted to certain locations.
• WeChat Pay system for virtual payments with support for different systems such as QRs or native in-app and web systems.
• A complete gallery of emojis and stickers to use in messages.
• Moments feature to share personal photo sequences.
• Make new friends with the Friends Radars, Nearby People, and Shake to find nearby users option.
• Possibility to share your location in real-time.
• Personalized notifications.
• Desktop client for PC and Mac compatible with your user account to continue conversations.
• Drifting Bottle Option: Send a message in a bottle and let a user around the world receive it.
• Link your Facebook account to WeChat.

As we can see, it incorporates a good number of features in a single app, present in many of the more famous messaging apps, all in one. In addition, the features to discover and get to know other users close to you reinforce the social facet of the service.

More confidentiality in your communications

One of the biggest concerns for users of messaging apps is privacy. In several services, we lose control once the message is sent because it remains saved in external servers.

However, this app tries to correct the problem by saving the offline message history in the device, so that only you are able to access it from the smartphone.

Still, you're better protected than in other apps, but still not quite. Just as end-to-end encryption also involves a certain level of privacy, it doesn't matter if your smartphone has keylogger spyware of the kind that Wikileaks denounces the CIA for using. So if you don't want something to be known, you better not leave it in writing.

You can use and download it for free, but it also incorporates elements for sale into the application. In addition, you will be able to use its various Windows, web, and macOS clients to chat from the computer desktop.

What's new in the latest version

• Correction of small errors.

Conditions and additional information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 4.4.
• Integrated in-app purchases.