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Caprine

Caprine

An elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app

•21 reviews•

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Caprine was ranked #1 of the day for May 13th, 2017
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Sindre Sorhus
Sindre Sorhus
Caprine - Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
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The community submitted 21 reviews to tell us what they like about Caprine, what Caprine can do better, and more.

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James Segwell
James Segwell
•1 review

For all its goodness, Caprine has 2 flaws. I cannot zoom in pics/documents, and it does not update chats, when used for the first time. Caprine can be better.

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5mo ago
Alexis Tyler
Alexis Tyler
•2 reviews

still dont get why meta doesn't just make a desktop app.

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2yr ago
John Butkans
John Butkans
•1 review

257.0 appears to be Deprecated. Remove/Delete does not work. And Emojis don't load properly. Was a very good App, regardless. No response when posting issues on GitHub for a long time now. That's a noticeable change.

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2yr ago
Maggew.com
Maggew.com
•1 review

1. Download

2. Install and Login

3. Goto preferences, tweak, minimize to tray

4. Everything works.

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7yr ago
111
111
•7 reviews

Download it, Login, and put some settings to personalize your program.

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7yr ago
Robert Gonzalez
Robert Gonzalez
•2 reviews

I wanted a small, thin, light application that wrapped the Facebook Messenger service so that I could have Messenger open in an app rather than a browser tab. Caprine does exactly that. It also runs super light (~50Mb of RAM) *and* it has built in privacy features that Facebook does not offer. This is exactly what I was after. Kudos to the App dev for this one.

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6yr ago
Priya Ranjan Dubey
Priya Ranjan Dubey
•13 reviews
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Jeff Triplett ✨👋
Jeff Triplett ✨👋
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Arfur Jay Folkesayke
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