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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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4.0
43,471,901 total
5 24,493,325
4 6,601,085
3 4,271,451
2 1,966,665
1 6,139,375
A Google User
Messenger is very Good 4 messages that are private. Plenty of Stickers. I Love that Messenger has added more floating flowers plus many other stickers, TY! (I Do Enjoy Using these often. So much so, that One emoji in Particular noted on Swiftkey, has That Emoji stated as my "Signature" emoji! I Love "💝" that!) Please Fix the on and off button as It's Way to close to send! Overall I like your New changes, features and GIF/Emoji, etc. Bar! Would you consider to Please move Send buttons and Camera. Fix please this AND SEND CODES PLEASE...(as I wasn't getting them and Idky) Tips on this I could use help with, Thank you!
Shiv Shankar Ash
Updates are really poor! There's no improvement at all! You have to go into the app each and every time, to see if someone messaged you. Despite having good Internet it keeps on saying 'waiting for Internet'. And then connected. And all of a sudden all the messages start popping up that were sent by ppl
Gabe D
Can the blue thumbs up be moved. I find myself accidentally sending it at inappropriate times because of the current location. And get rid of the MY DAY clutter. That is pure GARBAGE. I don't know anyone using it. Stop trying to be SnapChat & Instagram. Not that writing this will help since FB doesnt read and/or care about user comments.
Rich Dawson
Doesn't work well on Samsung galaxy s7- it takes ages to open sometimes not at all just shows a loading screen so you can't see messages, not great.. The facebook app is equally as bad. Needs to be sorted or left alone when it does work.
Govind Gopal
Why the hell is the app lagging so much ?! It becomes infuriating. Seamless transaction is what defines a messaging app and you've messed that up in spades. Try fixing that before you pump out useless updates with meaningless 'new' features. Work on what it should do properly !!!
Rachel Clark
1) after the most recent update, messenger has become slow. It takes a full 10 seconds to load my messages. 2) Let us hide or disable "my day". Messenger should give users the option to have the app be exactly that: a basic, instant messenger. We shouldn't have to go through apk mirror to get Messenger Lite if we want plain messenger. Give us the option in the legitimate app.
User reviews
Messenger is very Good 4 messages that are private. Plenty of Stickers. I Love that Messenger has added more floating flowers plus many other stickers, TY! (I Do Enjoy Using these often. So much so, that One emoji in Particular noted on Swiftkey, has That Emoji stated as my "Signature" emoji! I Love "💝" that!) Please Fix the on and off button as It's Way to close to send! Overall I like your New changes, features and GIF/Emoji, etc. Bar! Would you consider to Please move Send buttons and Camera. Fix please this AND SEND CODES PLEASE...(as I wasn't getting them and Idky) Tips on this I could use help with, Thank you!
Updates are really poor! There's no improvement at all! You have to go into the app each and every time, to see if someone messaged you. Despite having good Internet it keeps on saying 'waiting for Internet'. And then connected. And all of a sudden all the messages start popping up that were sent by ppl
Can the blue thumbs up be moved. I find myself accidentally sending it at inappropriate times because of the current location. And get rid of the MY DAY clutter. That is pure GARBAGE. I don't know anyone using it. Stop trying to be SnapChat & Instagram. Not that writing this will help since FB doesnt read and/or care about user comments.
Doesn't work well on Samsung galaxy s7- it takes ages to open sometimes not at all just shows a loading screen so you can't see messages, not great.. The facebook app is equally as bad. Needs to be sorted or left alone when it does work.
Why the hell is the app lagging so much ?! It becomes infuriating. Seamless transaction is what defines a messaging app and you've messed that up in spades. Try fixing that before you pump out useless updates with meaningless 'new' features. Work on what it should do properly !!!
1) after the most recent update, messenger has become slow. It takes a full 10 seconds to load my messages. 2) Let us hide or disable "my day". Messenger should give users the option to have the app be exactly that: a basic, instant messenger. We shouldn't have to go through apk mirror to get Messenger Lite if we want plain messenger. Give us the option in the legitimate app.
I downloaded the app today after about a month and it is working damn worst.. it is taking too much time to open even with a net speed of 4 mbps... facebook team please do something soon otherwise me and my all friends would be forced to un install this annoying app... hope to get a satisfying reply... 😡😠😡😠😡
My phone doesnt have filters in video calls. I find this to be completely unacceptable when i facetime my family in florida they all use the filters and im sitting on my bed looking like a derp! Please fix this so i can filter play with my family!
Dear Facebook. I was waiting for this review but I think it is about time. And today your app really pissed me off. I don't know if I am some weir location or what, but everyone around me already received the update with "My Day" feature and I'm still stuck on the old one. That would be all right, but today, Messenger offered me from open conversation to upload some picture to my day. So I thought that I finally received an update. But, NO. After adding that picture to my day I was left to discover that I have no control over my Day and the layout stayed the same as previous versions and currently I'm unable to access this feature and delete this photo. Please, do something with this. I also sent some email, long time ago but I haven't received any answer. I don't want to think bad about Facebook customer service but this is really bad.
I would love to just retrieve my messages without being forced to download this memory-hogging application which doesn't even work properly. The sounds alerts on it are annoying, additionally, as well as its desire to overtake all the functions of my phone, namely text messaging.
2 stars until they get rid of / give me an option to turn off the my day feature. It's a waste of space and adding unnecessary clutter to the app. People who want to do that type of thing have apps to do that already.
I love this app!!! I use it all the time. Love the stickers and all the other things you can do with it but the most recent update where "my day" opens up when a chat head is open seems ver unnecessary. There should be an option to enable/disable this feature. Another thing is messenger calls... It takes a few swipes of the finger to answer an incoming call. Sometimes I'm unable to answer the call at all, this is pretty inconvenient. Other than those 2 minor things every thing else works like a charm!
It sucks I can't write more than a damn paragraph with our the messenger closing an deleting everything I was in the middle of typing, is getting pretty damn annoying.. All the damn money Facebook has an you can't even get a message app to work correctly
I hate I have to delete thing on my phone just to down load this one. I like the old way to message people on face book. Why fix something that wasn't broken. I just hate this. JS
very BAD optimization! it consumes more (computed power use) than my 2K screen? how is that posible? first optimize it then ad features... 1 star!
The app never tells me when I have a message and when I do check to see if I have any messages it says waiting to connect to a network and then will only show me once I'm connected. There's nothing wrong with my interest either so that's not the problem. It just isn't working on my Galaxy Samsung S5. It really needs to be fixed and the worst part is it's not like I can delete it because I'd have no way to know if someone was trying to contact me.
It made me call people many times, insisting I call, even dialing without my okay, then put photo of person on every page I visited for 24hr., Not good. Gave you 5 stars any way.....
GROUPS: Don't need it, don't care. You "Hide" then, and it still comes back, and now you can't turn it off at all!! Seriously Facebook, stop patronising me on what I want/need. "Add to your day": More stupid waste of space and time. What's wrong with just a chat app?? Don't we already have a full, separate Facebook app for all the rest of those more involved kinds of features?? PHOTO LOADER: Need to give option of which image/file browser to use when sending pictures. The FB Messenger one is TEDIOUSLY ANNOYING how it loads everything when it is simpler to browse to specific folders that you know where what your looking for is rather than having to wait while it sorts through literally thousands of images and vids I have on my phone.
THIS APP IS JUNK. It crashes every 5 minutes for the past week and you know what? I don't think these Facebook workers even give a care about fixing ALL of the problems. Only cares about seeing the green in their pockets.
hate how the design turned up and also the whole Snapchat-like features and SMS feature. Just make it a simple and eady way to chat with Facebook friends like before
Please take away all the random extra things so that the app works properly, the games, news, shared day, and that massive camera button at the bottom. After the last update the app barely works :-/ Xperia Z5, start improving instead of making things worse and I'll change the rating.
Okay so umm with EverWing, when are the "Coming Soon" characters finally gonna be available? Cause it's been saying that they're coming soon since like March, and I've just been patiently racking up coins to buy them when they become available. I kinda figured this update would make them unlockable but it didn't, so that's really my only question is when tf are they gonna become PC's?
Pictures I have been sent still all in a downloads folder and even although i delete these they keep coming back grrrr! Like the app but it needs to listen to what people are saying and fix the problems.STILL NOT LISTENING IT SEEMS!
Well first off being forced to download it is BS...the app works great...but it has too many permissions..annoying a** sounds an just takes a ton of dang space. .the old version was perfect...WHY FACEBOOK did u have to make me dislike you so much...thinking about deleting everything to even do with FB period...unless they change it....# disappointed ##
So ive just noticed when someone now logs/switchs accounts on your device YOU CANT LOG IT BACK OUT... i feel like that is a invasion of privacy, and I HATE IT... that needs to be sorted out asap
Unable to open any link in chrome received in messenger for Android. The option to select the app to open the link doesn't show chrome. Fix it and would give a 5*
Just was t the games to be optimized to fit the GS8 screen... it's annoying to have some of the game cropped out
Works fine. Better call quality and fewer dropped calls than Skype. Still uses more resources than id prefer and i wish there was an easy way to stop it from running in the background but I know thats not as good for business so i wont hold my breath
Sorry for app I know all the Google website is greatly helping people wherever you are. But there's some kind of people doing not really good. I know those people is not acredated on your website so I'm sorry that. And thank you very
People are requesting to have the option to turn off "My Day" feature because some of us don't really check that. But up to now there is still none. I MEAN IT'S WASTING SPACE. Please let us have a choice whether to allow it or not into our apps
App sucks there is absolutely no privacy, turn active now, or last active off, not everyone needs to know when people are on Facebook or when they were last, that's a little stalker status get rid of my day it's not snap chat fix it everyone hates it
In the last couple weeks, the app has completely stopped working for me. It tells me I don't have any contacts, which makes me have to search individually for each contact to send something to which is annoying. I have to go look for whatever thread I want to see because the contacts page doesn't exist, and when I get there I can't see anything the other person has sent me, whether they've read what I've sent them,and yes I have the read reviews on and chat bubbles on, but I'm still not receiving any messages. I uninstalled and reinstalled today to see if anything changed and I saw messages that had been sent in the last few days that I looked for and did NOT receive prior to re-installing. So I'm here thinking its at least somewhat functional and my brother sends me messages right then and absolutely NOTHING comes through. AT ALL. Whatever messenger did in these last updates has completed fucked over my app and I use it daily to share funny and useful videos to my contacts. Please fix this abomination.
Let me just say that yoy guys should have it where you can stay logged in but appear offline. Kinda like what yahoo and msn did back in the day lol
Everytime this app got an update, it always become so slow and automatically log me out. I couldn't read messages from facebook because it is required to install this app. I suggest that you separate fb from messenger.
Stop SMS!!! I did not give my permission for my personal messages on my phone to be shared with FB Messenger! 😠I am very dissatisfied and thinking about deleting it #ForEverif someone from FB keeps changing my settings in Notifications which I also did not Approve of! 😵
I can't receive notification when someone text me. I need to go in the messenger app to see if someone text me, otherwise the app didn't send me notification. Plus eatch time I open the app, I receive a message that say "waiting for connection" and after "connected". I don't change any settings on my phone and I don't know what to do.
I HAVE UPDATED THIS THING 2 DAYS AGO! PLEASE STOP ADDING USELESS CRAP NO BEING USED! ADD TO MY DAY/DIRECT NEED TO GO! I KEEP HAVING TO UNINSTALL AND REINSTALL!
Messenger has become very helpful today. For me it is very entertaining because of the "My Day" updates of my Facebook friends. It is very useful for sending messages fast, voice call is clear as video call. I like how messenger works.
My phone says I've got a message until I've seen it on my computer too, and keeps telling me to install Messenger. A bit of a looping mess.
Used to use it for everything however discontinuing because the new story notification is really obnoxious. Also it censors some of my memes I try to send people. Really gone downhill with it trying to be Snapchat now.
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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
May 1, 2017
Size
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1,000,000,000 - 5,000,000,000
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Users Interact, Shares Info, Shares Location
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