Of course, as this is a very early beta, these features are likely to be implemented in future updates. There are some features that are still not working properly like Status, group calls, location sharing, and audio messages. Other than that, the app works just as you expect. A new sidebar lets users access the same tabs available in the iOS app, which are: Chats, Calls, Archived, Starred, and Settings. As first noted by WABetaInfo, the new app looks quite different from WhatsApp Desktop, as it is based on WhatsApp for iPhone (and the upcoming iPad version).ĩto5Mac was able to try out the new WhatsApp beta app for macOS. With Catalyst technology, which allows developers to bring iOS apps to macOS, WhatsApp now has a native version of its app for Mac users that is faster and runs smoothly on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
As a result, the current WhatsApp app for Mac is quite slow and uses more resources in terms of CPU and memory. However, this app is entirely based on WhatsApp Web and relies on the Electron framework. Mac users can now access WhatsApp through a macOS app. Now it seems that this app is finally getting closer to an official launch as WhatsApp has just released a beta version of its new macOS app built on Catalyst technology. WhatsApp has reportedly been working on a new universal app for macOS and iPadOS since last year.
