ChitChat vs. WhatsApp Desktop

[NathanHazout]

Surely you've heard that WhatsApp released their official desktop client: https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000621/Introducing-WhatsApps-desktop-app

It seems to work the same way as ChitChat.

Would you say there is a reason to keep using ChitChat? Do you have plans to maintain this project alive?

Thanks

[jschmid]

In any way, thanks for the great work!

[LeoNatan]

ChitChat is better. Closing the WA Desktop window kills the app, while here, it keeps running in the background.

[kapitainsky]

Who said that official app is better? It is always good to have alternative:)

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In any way, thanks for the great work!

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[NathanHazout]

Definitely thanks for the great work, and yes alternatives are good ... if they are different!

From what I see so far, both seems to be native wrappers for the web app. If that's the case ... they're exactly the same.

LeoNathan, good catch for closing the app. I wonder if there are other differences. And maybe we can document them in the readme, to help people make a better choice.

[coreice]

Indeed thanks, ChitChat was and still is a great wrapper around the WhatsApp-web environment.

There are some subtile differences between this version of ChitChat (as there are also differences between this one and the fork by Neo11). The desktop client by WhatsApp self opens a dialogue window when sharing files and sending voice messages is also supported. Also the behavior of the close-window button is different as mentioned earlier. In the client released by WhatsApp the emoji-window opens faster, I think because of the build-in Chromium browser.

[altern8tif]

If I'm not mistaken, a key difference would be notifications? I seem to be getting native notifications via WhatsApp, but not ChitChat.

[maciboy]

For me the best thing is that ChitChat does not toggle my Nvidia graphics on my MBP 2010.
Since WhatsApp’s app and several other clients are based on Chrome, they use the Nvidia graphics and I really hate this behavior if the resource-hungry graphic is used for no reason 👍

[eliaskg]

I still use Chit Chat because it uses a Safari web view. WhatsApp Desktop uses a Chrome web view and doesn't work with OSX text replacements.

[djadomi]

Text replacements alone is a reason to use Chitchat.