WhatsappTime or WhatsApp Web?

Article by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 20 Mar 2015

My colleague Frederick Barton recently reviewed WhatsappTime, an application that brings WhatsApp’s chatting functionality to the web. Instead of using your mobile to chat with your friends, you can use an application that runs on your Windows-powered desktop or laptop.

At the time of writing this, Whatsapp Time is available for Windows only – that’s any Windows edition from Windows XP onward. Versions for Mac OS X and Linux are “coming soon” – just that we don’t know precisely when.

As part of getting WhatsappTime up and running, you are be presented with a WhatsApp Web dialog that invites you to use WhatsApp on your mobile to scan a QR code. After you scan the code, you’ll log into your WhatsApp account and you’ll be able to use WhatsappTime to chat with any of your friends.

The aforementioned WhatsApp Web is the official WhatsApp web client that works with Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Opera Software’s Opera web browser. Visit WhatsApp Web’s website, scan the QR code using your phone, and chat with your WhatsApp friends from within your browser.

So on one hand, we have Whatsapp Time, a software application for Windows that lets you chat with your friends on your laptop or desktop computer. And on the other hand we have WhatsApp Web, a web client that lets you chat with your friends from within your web browser. Which one would you rather use?

In related news…


Back in January, I reported that the number of people who use WhatsApp went up to 700 million. These 700 million WhatsApp users manage to send over 30 billion messages on a daily basis.

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, who bought it back in February 2014 for the $19 billion. I bring this up because Facebook recently announced that it is implementing a new payments in Messenger feature. It allows Messenger user to send money to friends and receive money from friends.



Latest News


Sony's 'Attack of the Blockbusters Sale' Slashes Prices in Half for a Ton of PS4 Games

17 Aug 2017

How Samsung's New T5 Compares to the Old T3 Portable SSD (Infographic)

17 Aug 2017

See all