Facebook Messenger
 Logo used since 2025 | |
 Sign in screen of Facebook Messenger on Windows 10 Mobile | |
| Developer(s) | Meta Platforms |
|---|---|
| Initial release | August 9, 2011 April 2020 |
| Operating system | Web, Android, iOS, Wear OS
Discontinued
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| Size | 53.33 MB (Android)[1] 124.1 MB (iOS)[2] 169.4 MB (Windows)[3] 91.3 MB (macOS)[4] |
| Available in | 111[5] languages |
List of languages Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (België), English (UK), English (US), English (upside down), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Frisian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Japanese (Kansai), Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian (bokmal), Norwegian (nynorsk), Oriya, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Shona, Silesian, Simplified Chinese (China), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh and Zaza | |
| Type | Instant messaging, VoIP |
| License | Freeware, proprietary |
| Website | messenger.com/ facebook.com/messenger/ |
Facebook Messenger is an American messaging app and platform developed by Meta, Inc.
It was originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008. The company revamped its messaging service in 2010. It released standalone iOS and Android apps in August 2011 and standalone Facebook Portal hardware for Messenger-based calling in the fourth quarter of 2018. Later on, Facebook launched a dedicated website interface (Messenger.com), and separated the messaging functionality from the main Facebook app. This allows users to use the web interface or download one of the standalone apps.
In April 2020, Facebook officially released Messenger for Desktop. It is supported on Windows 10 and macOS and distributed on Microsoft Store and App Store respectively.
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- ↑ "Facebook Messenger". Microsoft Store. Archived from the original on March 12, 2018. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
- ↑ "Facebook Messenger". Mac App Store. Archived from the original on June 21, 2023. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
- ↑ "Facebook Interface Languages". Facebook (Select your language). Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved July 9, 2020.