Messenger

In-app purchases
4.5
96.1M reviews
5B+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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About this app

Messenger is a free messaging app that helps you connect with anyone, anywhere. Stay in touch with your friends and family, explore your interests with people like you, build your community, and share your vibe beyond words, all in one app.

CHAT AND CALL ANYONE, ANYWHERE

Find and connect with your friends and family on Facebook and Messenger, no phone number needed.

GET INSTANT ANSWERS FROM YOUR AI ASSISTANT*
Meta AI is your assistant that can answer any questions, give you advice, help with homework, and more.

SEND YOUR PHOTOS IN HIGH DEFINITION
Send and receive clearer, crisper picture of your favorite moments with Messenger.

CREATE SHARED ALBUMS
From a recent summer vacation to your grandma’s 80th birthday, create albums of photos and videos to share, organize and reminisce over important moments in your group chats.

EASILY ADD NEW CONNECTIONS WITH QR CODES
Connect with people you meet in real life by scanning their Messenger QR code or sharing yours via a link.

SHARE LARGE FILES DIRECTLY IN CHAT
Whether it’s a Word, PDF, or Excel doc, you can send large files up to 100MB right inside of Messenger.

EDIT AND UNSEND MESSAGES
Hit send too soon? You can edit the message up to 15 minutes after sending

DISAPPEARING MESSAGES
Some things aren’t meant to last forever. Choose how long your end-to-end encrypted chats stick around after they’ve been read.

COME TOGETHER WITH YOUR COMMUNITIES
Meaningfully connect with people like you from your school, neighborhood, and interest groups.

GET IN YOUR FAVORITE CREATORS’ INNER CIRCLE
Stay in the know with creators by joining their broadcast channels for authentic and casual content.

UNLEASH YOUR IMAGINATION W/ META AI*
Tap into your go-to creative partner to create, edit, animate images and more.

CAPTURE EVERYDAY MOMENTS ON STORIES
Highlight moments of your day using photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours in Stories.

DROP A NOTE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS
Stay connected with your friends by sharing quick updates that disappear after 24 hours.

BRING YOUR VIBE TO YOUR CHATS
Sometimes words just don’t cut it. Tap into more ways to express yourself with animated stickers, GIFs, reactions and more.

SET THE MOOD OF YOUR CHAT WITH THEMES
Customize your chat with a large and constantly evolving list of themes featuring popular artists, holidays, and more.

*Meta AI is available in select languages and countries only, with more coming soon.
Updated on
13 Jan 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 12 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
92.1M reviews
Péter Dobronay
15 January 2025
Attachments may be "not available" despite latest app version installed; When playing then fullscreening videos only audio plays. Video controls are gone + infinite buffering is common (a video may not even start, have to open messenger.com in desktop mode); Pictures being weirdly grouped instead of shown each is awful; The image viewer is 💩; Opening messages from notifications is slow; After network is turned on the app vibrates and beeps for and shows EACH new message; Meta is a privacy leech
1,379 people found this review helpful
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Terri Marciniak
21 December 2024
I Love messenger, I can talk to my friends that are just using WiFi! I can talk to my grandchildren! I love the facetime option and even playing games! It used to lag real bad, a couple of years ago, but that has all been fixed, it's just like talking on a phone now, oh and can always text too, even if your friends don't have a phone number, to call, almost everyone has messenger!
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raznnia Consebit
21 December 2024
This app has several issues that make it frustrating to use. Messages I send sometimes appear too long, and some even get hidden. When I resend them, the original message suddenly reappears. Additionally, messages that I've already seen sometimes show up again as unread. There's also a weird bug during calls that I can’t quite explain, but it makes the experience chaotic.
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