Messenger

In-app purchases
4.4
95.6M 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
Jan 7, 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
91.6M reviews
Nishian
December 11, 2024
Function wise, this app makes it more easier than other messeging apps. There's a lot of downsides however, for example as of recently when you make a story it auto crops the image to be 9:16. You can't change it to anything, if you try to use their useless square at the bottom left to adjust the aspect ratio it forces the image to be 9:16 otherwise. It's an annoying bug and is been happening for a few weeks now.
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Jo Kattz
December 10, 2024
This app is horrible. I've followed all suggestions and it still won't make any sound when I get a text. Everything is on. Volume is up. Phone and app are set to sound. Nothing. I could deal with that I guess but there is so much else! Contacts are messed up. I can't find where to add photos and emojis. Maybe I'll adjust in time but why do I have to adjust? Why was a perfectly good app disabled in favor of this disaster? Give me back the old app. I'm not interested in this one!
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Alex McGinn
December 10, 2024
A great app for messaging people, I mean that's what the app is for! Pictures, videos, messages send too! My problem is being alerted to when people are trying to message me. It's been happening a lot these last few months, I would have gotten a message 5 hours ago and then get a notification saying I got the message, then there's times where it just doesn't notify me at all.
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