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Instantly reach the people in your life—for free. Messenger is just like texting, but you don't have to pay for every message (it works with your data plan).
Not just for Facebook friends: Message people in your phone book and just enter a phone number to add a new contact.
Group chats: Create groups for the people you message most. Name them, set group photos and keep them all in one place.
Photos and videos: Shoot videos and snap selfies or other photos right from the app and send them with one tap.
Chat heads: Keep the conversation going while you use other apps.
Free calls: Talk as long as you want, even with people in other countries. (Calls are free over Wi-Fi. Otherwise, standard data charges apply.)
Even more ways to message:
Bring your conversations to life with stickers.
Preview your gallery photos and videos without leaving the conversation--then choose the perfect ones to send.
Record voice messages when you have more to say.
Extra features:
Know when people have seen your messages.
Forward messages or photos to people who weren't in the conversation.
Search for people and groups to quickly get back to them.
Turn on location to let people know when you're nearby.
See who's available on Messenger and who's active on Facebook.
Create shortcuts to get to any conversation right from your home screen.
Turn off notifications when you're working, sleeping or just need a break.
Stay logged in so you never miss a message.
Not just for Facebook friends: Message people in your phone book and just enter a phone number to add a new contact.
Group chats: Create groups for the people you message most. Name them, set group photos and keep them all in one place.
Photos and videos: Shoot videos and snap selfies or other photos right from the app and send them with one tap.
Chat heads: Keep the conversation going while you use other apps.
Free calls: Talk as long as you want, even with people in other countries. (Calls are free over Wi-Fi. Otherwise, standard data charges apply.)
Even more ways to message:
Bring your conversations to life with stickers.
Preview your gallery photos and videos without leaving the conversation--then choose the perfect ones to send.
Record voice messages when you have more to say.
Extra features:
Know when people have seen your messages.
Forward messages or photos to people who weren't in the conversation.
Search for people and groups to quickly get back to them.
Turn on location to let people know when you're nearby.
See who's available on Messenger and who's active on Facebook.
Create shortcuts to get to any conversation right from your home screen.
Turn off notifications when you're working, sleeping or just need a break.
Stay logged in so you never miss a message.
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3.9
40,482,806 total
5 22,538,938
4 6,209,514
3 4,006,059
2 1,880,231
1 5,848,064
After I am done calling, the phone keeps believing that i am still on the call and i cannot open my camera as it says, "Camera cannot be opened during calls." Also, I keep having low ringtone and notification volume for the same reason. When i try to increase the ringtone volume, my phone only gives me the option to increase the call volume. I have to restart my phone every time to fix this issue; either the camera does not open or the ringtone volume goes down. Other than that, the application works fine with me.
aiwxo
I updated 2 days ago, and it's demanding ANOTHER update. Just no. Wait until your product is actually good. Waste of time but have too keep using as whatsapp doesn't work on a tablet. Chat heads close themselves abruptly, losing any messages in the process of being written. Very irritating and frustrating.
Johnny Mac
This messenger absolutely sucks. Why they couldn't have just left it in FB is beyond me. So now bc I got tired of not being able to message on Facebook, this crap app goes to the play store and tries to download again for first time messages. Awful
Max Meyer
Lots of small problems. No way to customize anything. It reads your messages without asking, and then offers things to you. Can't open shared fb posts from the chat itself; have to use a PC. Can't fast forward in videos; have to watch the entire thing. It compresses all photos into low quality. It can access my camera and location even though I explicitly rejected those in the OS. Crashes often. Annoying sounds too. Not recommended.
All the time calling people. If I wanted to call them I would ,i don't need messenger taking it upon theirselves to do it for me.also quit trying to get me to voice type. If I wanted to do that I would and now it's not letting me get to it from the chat heads on my home screen.. It's been over a year and it still calls people everyday. And now it trys to video chat.. And spell check still sucks.
manolis lamprou
They took a messaging app and turned it into something else, copying other apps.. that's just sad! People download messenger becauuse they want to do just that, contact other people, they just decided to change the whole concept of the app,if they don't change it back soon I'' just uninstall it. another good app got ruined in order to satusfy the vanity of some people
User reviews
After I am done calling, the phone keeps believing that i am still on the call and i cannot open my camera as it says, "Camera cannot be opened during calls." Also, I keep having low ringtone and notification volume for the same reason. When i try to increase the ringtone volume, my phone only gives me the option to increase the call volume. I have to restart my phone every time to fix this issue; either the camera does not open or the ringtone volume goes down. Other than that, the application works fine with me.
I updated 2 days ago, and it's demanding ANOTHER update. Just no. Wait until your product is actually good. Waste of time but have too keep using as whatsapp doesn't work on a tablet. Chat heads close themselves abruptly, losing any messages in the process of being written. Very irritating and frustrating.
This messenger absolutely sucks. Why they couldn't have just left it in FB is beyond me. So now bc I got tired of not being able to message on Facebook, this crap app goes to the play store and tries to download again for first time messages. Awful
Lots of small problems. No way to customize anything. It reads your messages without asking, and then offers things to you. Can't open shared fb posts from the chat itself; have to use a PC. Can't fast forward in videos; have to watch the entire thing. It compresses all photos into low quality. It can access my camera and location even though I explicitly rejected those in the OS. Crashes often. Annoying sounds too. Not recommended.
All the time calling people. If I wanted to call them I would ,i don't need messenger taking it upon theirselves to do it for me.also quit trying to get me to voice type. If I wanted to do that I would and now it's not letting me get to it from the chat heads on my home screen.. It's been over a year and it still calls people everyday. And now it trys to video chat.. And spell check still sucks.
They took a messaging app and turned it into something else, copying other apps.. that's just sad! People download messenger becauuse they want to do just that, contact other people, they just decided to change the whole concept of the app,if they don't change it back soon I'' just uninstall it. another good app got ruined in order to satusfy the vanity of some people
They come out with a new update every other day. Now this won't work on my google pixle phone. Can't even log into my Google wallet anymore. This bogs down my system. Always calling people that I don't want to talk to or haven't been around or are dead. The send button is way to close the "speak to talk" button. Am always hitting the wrong thing. Never functions they way it is supposed to. What Facebook should do is remove any way to message anyone. And start from scratch. Way to many bugs. Way to much of a hassle. I'm going over to my Twitter until the fix this.
Messenger is great for messaging people over WiFi and data and I love the conversation features it offers that are so similar to imessage. But things like the camera and other outside features make the app heavy and the camera pull down is annoying, the old user interface for the conversation list was better. It would be great the camera feature was optional.
How can you release untested crap like this. Look at all the innocents being subjected to 944 errors? Just trying to update along with 5 other apps. The rest worked fine. Get your act together!
Very buggy. Submitted a support ticket months ago but got no response. I've had 3 phones and on each one it only shows my last 20 messages. I can't scroll any further. On my new phone, it is showing all my texts as unread, even if I read them after 2 minutes they show as unread. Annoying because it could be a good app.
Can you give us the option to turn half the crap off please. I just want the basic messenger without all the added junk. Send messages, photos and videos easily and that's it. Shared days, who's active and favorites, I don't want any of that sh*t.
Was happy with the app until a update makes it crash constantly. I'll be mid sentence and all of a sudden I'm at my home screen. And then it doesn't even save what I was typing, so I have to start all over again. Very frustrating. Please fix.
I think messenger is as intrusive as anything ever created in the tech industry. It's not bad enough that everything we do on facebool is monitored, But with this app they want to take over calls and SMS. So that every form of communication is handled by FB.
It's a messenger app so get rid of "favourites and who's online" it's annoying. All these extra things are SO DAMN ANNOYING. We can see those features on the side bar in Facebook. Just put it back to a simple messenger app.
I would rate it higher if they give an option to ultimately hide the sections that I have to constantly get rid of when I'm messaging. It's so irritating, and fills my screen with nothing but empty space.
It crashes constantly. Mid typing.....crash! I'm going for a letter on the keypad and boom!...it closes and I find myself opening an app on my main screen instead of finishing the word I was typing. Whoever is in charge of this app needs to be fired immediately and thrown into a Turkish prison for life. Also, the FAKE app reviews are not fooling anyone. You guys will do anything to hang on to your precious 3.9 rating. How about concentrating on fixing the issues.....and not on fake review bots?
I WAS going to give this app a higher rating. I will NOT do this until you fix it. Something in this app just uninstalled it from my phone and now is slowing my phone way down. Virus scan did NOT pick up anything on my end. This is now the THIRD time this has happened! So not happy with the developers of this app and I'm an avid Facebook user. >:-(
Why the heck I can't see message requests any more! Its doesn't load earlier requests or other filtered nesaages since the two latest updates Stop being silly FB!
The FB apps notifies me alert but i dont have any message or message request to read. I also browse if i have an unseen message but totally doesnt have one. So its not that good. But this one better than the past apps.
I loved it! Just one suggestion. Can you make it so we can block all messages when going to bed? The noise from getting messages is annoying when I'm trying to sleep.
User has his own freedom to download his app. Its should not have been this way to have mandatory messenger app for fb users. And moreover the size of the app is bulky. Around 45mb while installing and keeps increasing day by day and consumes more memory.
Could be better if you add some sort of "context awareness" in your application wherein if the user tries to hide the chat head for a couple of times like 5 in a succession it means the user dont want to be bothered and the app automatically mutes for like 15 minutes without the user having to mute it explicitly. This is useful especially when the user turns on the wifi connectivity and then the app is still not finished loading all the messages and pops up everytime it syncs new messages and also when watching videos.
Too many unecessary features, I just need it to get straight to the point of messaging hence "messenger". I got rid of Fb page and stuck with messenger to simplify things now it's just overboard. Wasting my data and battery. My active contacts don't even load properly, I've had to reset my mobile data everytime. It's most likely due to all the stupid features running on the app. Please at least make an app that's available to d/l minus the hassle.
I am disappoited with a lot of features like suggested friends, recents searches, add to my day and lately even my text messages appears. Is this going to replace the fb someday? Can u change it back to simple fb messages please please please
This application is helpful and useful, easy to send pictures and voice call. But i have some issue about vedio call, its really hard to connect, u need to tried it many times, its always connecting even if there is a good signal.....
Battery hog. Since this app is forced on us to message someone on Facebook I occasionally install it. But everyone I do, my battery life goes down very quickly. The worst I usually have after my 8 hour weekday is 54%. With this app, my phone doesn't make it to the end of my shift.
To anyone wanting more chat colours, theres an app called Mauf! You can put any colour Now for the review The app itself is overall laggy to deal with, and while you're in a call you can not use the camera. Its either extremly glichy or not even accessable. The constant app updates are annoying and take up a lot of phone space, so if you have a device under 5 Gigs, you cant really download anyother apps. But some, not all the features, are pretty nice. Though, I wish I could refresh and not pull down the camera.
This messaging app is larger than kik, group me, and messenger(texting app by google). Other apps are smaller in size. And have plenty of cool features. It would be helpful if you could work on making the app smaller in size! :)
Too more bad updates. This app was working better in past, now it work hard every time and on more phones. I have a Galaxy Note 5 so i think the app had a problem, not my phone.
It's a good app.. But just one request.. Please add an option of logging out of messenger.. It's really irritating to get messages day and night. I really can't understand why it is big deal to just provide such basic option.. It's obvio that no one wants to get disturbed by the messages even while sleeping.
I really liked the fact I could have my messenger contacts and sms contacts together in one messaging app. However! When I would make a new sms message to a contact the app would randomly select a different contact in my phone book to send the message to. At first I thought I had selected the wrong name from my phone book but sure enough when I hit send it would change the contact. I can't trust an app that does that.
Does the job. It frequently dismiss the message i'm typing when it's long (frustrating), and sucks my battery out. :( Also, I would love to encrypt group messages. Should be doable (same protocol as WhatsApp). For me, WhatsApp is now the standard.
This messenger is very useful.. you don't need to close one conversation to open another enjoy the chat heads feature and open as many as you can and even now it's your instant messenger aswell.
It's getting a lot better and the sms integration option is nice when working with a smaller (memory wise) cheap phone. Just a couple glitches here and there with app instability but they all seem that way.
Signal is a far better, more useful, PRIVATE messaging app. The only reason I have messenger is for contact with Facebook marketplace people. Thanks FB for forcing an unnecessary app on your media users.
Sometimes msgs don't come thru til 1-2 days later, or longer, even though msg icon is visible. I've been late on some important stuff due to this 😕
What is the need of it if in every messaging I need to open it by default even it is useless that I cannot message a known who is not in my friend list. Just justify it
The information overload and visual confusion is the same as Facebook itself. It invites you to message random people who aren't your friends. You cannot ( I couldn't find a way to ) filter contacts. It failed for me at saving a draft automatically when I jumped to another app without saving. The typing box is 2 lines tall and that's all. Reading what you have written involves scrolling in that tiny box. There is no zoom! You cannot make a message larger to read it. The stock Android Messenger has most of the features and half the overhead. If you are a diehard Facebooker you will love it. I'm just going to delete my FB account.
Limited colors for background (white) and chat (12 of them) limited custom like buttons. Unnecessary features (day story camera - can't hide in settings). Bubble heads is the only great feature among other messengers. Still, using only because of market share.
This app is good.. and to those who gives 1 or 2 stars.. just dont use this app.. lets see what you will do without this good app hahaha.. maybe there's some flaws but still it can be fix.. good job facebook
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What's New
Now you can see your call history and missed calls—all in one place.
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Updated
February 28, 2017
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1,000,000,000 - 5,000,000,000
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