Duo for WhatsApp Web Messenger

Social Networking
Rating
4.3 (100.9K)
Size
153.2 MB
Age rating
4+
Current version
13.1
Price
Free
Seller
BEST SOCIAL APPS DEVELOPMENT LTD
Last update
1 year ago
Version OS
13.0 or later
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User Reviews for Duo for WhatsApp Web Messenger

4.34 out of 5
100.9K Ratings
2 years ago, Knight Yoshi
Works very well, except for one thing
The app is great, works well. Except for the frequency of ads for free use. It pushes you to pay for it to be ad free, which makes it very good. However, it can deter people that don’t want to pay for it. The issue is that it doesn’t respect dark mode or system default theme. It’s always light mode, which is blinding at night. Also, as a feature request, the ability to schedule messages to be posted at a later day/time would be great
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2 years ago, JCBourne477
Junk
As much as it seems to be the best option when you need to use WhatsApp on something else thant your phone, an iPad for example, my experience has been negative from the first moment to the last. First, when you start the app, half of the screen is covered with an advertisment, and every so many seconds you get one in full screen for seconds. So it doesn't take more than 5 minutes before you decide to pay the 10 dollars monthly subscription. Don't keep your hopes too high though, the subscription is not tied to your Apple/iCloud account, it is tied to your device. I have 2 iPads, I rotate between the 2 of them when the battery needs to be recharged. So on the second iPad I needed to pay too, which obviously I didn't. Then, the application doesn't trigger any notification when a new message comes in, even though I set the setting. The app won't get new messages if you don't have WhatsApp running on your phone. Wonderful, you buy the app to use WhatsApp on your iPad but you still need to use the phone for the app to work. A friend sent me little videos made with her iPhone, they open/play fine on the WhatsApp app on the phone but not in this app, so there, again, I ended up using WhatsApp on the phone. Obviously you don't see when the other person is typing either. And to top it all, the app constantly sends you notifications to sell you stuff. Overall, an overpriced app, a dishonest licensing model, and it doesn't even work right on top of it.
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2 years ago, Mathew Rabbit
No it can’t do Video, it’s WebApp…
Before giving a one star review, you should read the description… This is a WebApp version that is used specifically as a Messenger. There is not a way to route video to iPad because WhatsApp does not allow this. If you are mad about that, you should submit requests to Whatsapp. The developer managed to get this to work as close to WhatsApp as is legally viable, considering the restrictions WhatsApp puts on it. Enjoy this for what it is, but keep in mind it’s 30 bucks for lifetime No-Ads. I don’t mind paying that, but i have disposable income. Not everyone will want to do that. For me, this was more than worth it because WhatsApp obviously isn’t doing anything to help iPad users at this point. Cheers to the devs. Awesome app, works beautifully and syncs immediately with my phone. Love it.
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1 year ago, gngkzdhxgmzg
Eh. I have seen much better
this app does have good qualities. it works. but barely! first of all, WhatsApp on the phone is so much more convenient. it has a clean look and it actually has features in it that I think are nice. the ads. beware of this app’s ads. it’s not some tiny little thing. I x out an ad. a new one pops up. u know, I bet that if these ads weren’t so big and so irritating I can’t even open the app without being utterly disgusted, it would have actual features, like seeing messages fully. u know, this app opens the ad in full randomly. a LOT. and then it asks u to pay. why should we have to pay just to be able to look at an app and not see utter disgust? I refuse to pay for something like that. and always, it takes 5 minutes just to open ur texts and look at a message! IT IS PLAIN WORTHLESS DO NOT BUY THIS APP. IT ISNT WORTH IT.
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1 year ago, Kais84
What am I missing?!
Not sure how this app got so many great reviews but my experience so far has been very lackluster. The app is very glitchy. It takes a while for the app to restore itself to where you left off in previous conversations. I’m talking about sometime is it more than 30 seconds. also, I find myself having to double and triple click on icons in order for it to react (using it on my new iPad). What is even more annoying is that I pay the $20 in order to have the ads removed so that it would hopefully flow better. Which it did, but not to the degree it should after paying so much. The other major downside is that I cannot make video calls on it even though you can from WhatsApp on a mobile device. Can someone please explain that to me?!? In short, not sure how everyone is having such a great experience with this app… what am I missing?
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7 months ago, TakeUout
Junk
The unpaid version is completely unusable with ads popping up everywhere and you can’t get rid of them. You have to keep starting the app over and over to hope another ad doesn’t show up which you can’t remove. It’s like pulling the lever on a slot machine and hoping for the best. The paid version isn’t much better. You have to click on a chat 10 times for it to open up. The if you come back to use the app several times a day half the time it keeps telling you to sync with your phone again. It does this over and over. Are the rest of the reviews fake???? This app and company are horrible and the price I paid for the year to use this junk is a total rip-off!!!! At the time of ordering I couldn’t find another app to use WhatsApp on my IPad. Hopefully there is something better and this isn’t still the only option.
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1 year ago, VerJaap
Works Somewhat
Update: Not worth the money. Hope the developer is happy with my contribution, but the app is simply not up to the task. Waste of my money. :-( Not sure I should have paid for this app. Of course, WhatsApp is lacking in support for multiple devices (something Signal handles well). This app simply takes the web interface and makes it accessible on a mobile device (with more “stuff” but really, one only cares about WhatsApp). Sadly, it has various problems. At times the interface goes berserk and shows somewhat split screen (this happens when pasting in e.g. an image or link). It also consistently crashes when activated. Finally, I get notifications about “news” which I’m definitely NOT interested in, but new messages don’t seem to appear when not in the foreground. In this case you definitely DON’T get what you pay for… :-(
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4 months ago, MacSince86
It’s OK. A bit buggy.
Duo works OK for my purposes. When it works properly, the interface is pretty much like WhatsApp. And it’s intuitive to use. It has a couple of irritating bugs on the iPad. If I multi-task over to another app, and then come back to Duo, the window on the lift (that shows the list of chats) disappears. Every. Single. Time. And the little left-pointing arrow in the top left of the screen seems non-functional. I assume its purpose is to bring the chat-list window back. But it just doesn’t work. If I totally close out the app and re-start it, the window returns. Bothersome. I bought the premium version for $30, so I’d at least expect these basic functions to work.
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2 years ago, Sipa_D.
This is not WhatsApp
Downloaded and paid for the lifetime removal of amazingly annoying full screen pop up invitations to download Chrome even though we already had it installed. The WhatsApp chat functionality worked well. All contacts and chat history synced with the iPad. The problem is the inability to make video calls using this app. My wife, her friends, and family all use WhatsApp as their group call platform. She was hoping to use her new iPad instead of her phone for the group video calls. She is not able to get 30 other people to leave WhatsApp. I do not understand why the iPad app functionality is not the same as on the iPhone. This app is not worth paying for.
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11 months ago, JungleLady329
Disappointed
I normally do not leave negative reviews but I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. I downloaded this app because of the review, only to discover that ads block half of the screen which is really annoying, they can't even hide. Also, it says “2nd number” but it's a duo number which must be purchased, I have a personal and business line, so I was hoping I could have them together, I guess I misunderstood. Please consider these on your next update. I lliked that it downloaded quickly and doesn't take too much space compared to the original app and it linked fast to my phone.
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1 year ago, Larry The IT guy
Bad overall user experience! Way too many invasive ads in the form of “news” that appear as messages
Just a bad experience all around. Not usable at all! Invasive adds are not adds that pop up in order to support the developer in a fair manner that you get to use the product and they are getting paid via the adds. Instead the adds are full screen, converting everything, and do not have away to dismiss them for a few seconds. Then the dismissal option varies and is usually hidden (white X on top of a picture with a white background etc.) so you really have to spend a long time watching and add that is likely not a product you are interested in or wanted to see for more then a friction of a second. And then in addition, half the time it’s not a real message that alerted you, but some other news message they inserted in there with another add in it that was designed to get you to open the app and watch and add even if you don’t have any new messages! Just a bad experience all around. Not usable at all!
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2 years ago, life is a good place to be
Don’t get this
This app is the most horrible thing I’ve ever downloaded on my iPad. I tried getting onto it and then it tells you to add an additional app google which might be familiar but one for some people but what if I don’t want Google on my iPad then I go to delete the app and it will give me the option to delete it so it’s basically told me you bought me so now if you hate me you still gotta keep that is the most annoying type of cheapskate marketing you could ever do you’re scamming people out of buying your app and they can’t delete it, which takes up storage on people’s iPad because they could use it for other apps that really work don’t buy this.
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6 months ago, reingrazio
I pay 5 dollars
But you don’t allow me to used the app this is just bad business you’re stealing money from people that can’t even receive it anything in return I’m blocked from WhatsApp’s I have done anything for you to take my 5 dollars to recover my account because I have new phone number your not being fair with the customer service you took charge my account and then boom disappear like a thief!!
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4 months ago, Chemtrail Chihuahua
Great if you want to catch up on your targeted advertising!
I’d give it 5 but a functional screen came up once. Couldn’t they just make it ALL ads? Sheesh - it’s 2024 - we no longer need useful functionality. AI is supposed to do that mundane stuff. Now which one of you little rascals hid my meds???
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3 years ago, Crisccc
Works Great but Ads are unbearable
If you are willing to offer a free version with ads, it’s fine. But having pop up ads every 5 seconds to force one to pay for the premium service is completely pointless. I will happily pay for an ad free version if I didn’t feel you are forcing me through my experience with the app. I will buy another app right now instead of yours.
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5 months ago, Arnaud19855555
TOTALLY Dysfunctional
You don’t see the full app on the phone. I mean, part of the app is hidden on the right, it doesn’t fit. Meaning that you don’t see all the message you’re typing, you don’t see the full messages you’re receiving, you have to guess some part of it but most importantly when you type a message, you can’t click on send because this button doesn’t appear. Also impossible to go back to all messages when you opened one specific message. I thought it was because of ads so I purchased but it remains the same. Just a big fat scam… and Apple allows that.
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2 years ago, Kawkai12345
Straightforward app, does what it says well.
It’s incredible that an app doing what it says gets 5 stars, but there are som many other WhatsApp apps that don’t work or require a subscription that I want to strongly endorse this one! It has a lot of adds unless you pay for the no-adds version (which I will probably do), but TINSTAAFL. You want something that works, the developers need to get paid somehow.
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2 months ago, AnUniqueNickname
Next button costs $3.99
While installing one has to click Next, then Next, for a few information screens. Then what appears as another information screen states extra features cost $3.99/week. Click next and it actually subscribes you and charges you your first week of $3.99. No other purchase warnings or events occur. Boom, you’re subscribed. I have cancelled the subscription and deleted the app. I want my initial $3.99 back! Then the ads are so intrusive it’s unusable. So bad that IMO, I cannot properly evaluate as to whether I would pay for it to get rid of the ads. I removed it from my iPad.
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8 months ago, Dylan Tr.
Garbage
Second you launch the app, a pop up ad, close that and another one appears. Not more than 3 seconds later it asks me to rate the trash pop-up ad app i just installed, followed closely by another pop up ad. Once finally sorting through that i go to use the app to see that the only way it can be used on apple watch is with a $5 purchase, with the number of ads on this i would assume that they dont need any more money to support the app, however that doesnt seem to be the case. I dont mind an ad here or there, but please, for the love of god, have some app for your downloadable ad.
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3 days ago, Nuts and bolts...
Falls far short
Overall, I would not recommend this app, even the paid version. It has too many bugs and is too unreliable to make it worthwhile. Sometimes, the app won’t load and I can’t view messages without restarting it. Other times, the app won’t display the conversation when I click on it. I’m very disappointed with this app. I wish WhatsApp would create an iPad-specific app so I wouldn’t have to deal with Duo. I bought the paid version and believe it was a total waste of money.
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2 years ago, _kish
Ads are extremely disruptive. Subscription tier too expensive.
UI is okay, I’d give it 3 or 4 stars if it wasn’t for the ads. I get that they make money of advertisements, but holy cow you cant use the app without an ad constantly blocking your entire screen till it times out. You could at the very least make it a banner and not bombard my eye sockets with this bullsh**. Also $9.99/month to subscribe and get rid of the ads? F that noise. That’s way too much for the little features you offer that are Built off frameworks that were made by others. Build a better app. Charge less.
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1 year ago, Jillybee72
Useful but somewhat strange…
I find this app very useful because I never carry a phone but always have my iPad nearby. There are lots of ads, but it is survivable. There is at least one phantom notification a day — I open the app and there are no new messages. From what other users are saying, it seems they’re just trying to tell me when there is “news” so it really is just a garbage notification every day. Still worth it to not have to carry a phone, ha ha.
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2 years ago, x497
Relentless Ads (among other things)
If you use this app for free, be prepared to experience a barrage of non-stop ads that ruin the experience the moment you start using the app. And not just ads that take up a part of the screen, but also full-screen ads too. If you also want to get rid of the ads, then be prepared to pay $20 so you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription. There are features that are missing (like replying to specific texts) and dark mode. It’s actually quite baffling that this app has a 4.4 rating when it’s this tarnished by its flaws.
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2 years ago, ladyshaynnag
This app is a real headache (DO not PAY) not worth the head of of unnecessary push notification
i thought hey okay pay for the lifetime of the app because i run a business and to be honest the ads where ridiculous. PLus I need to make sure I can connect with customers.. If im paying for the ad free version i surely don't want to receive notifications unless its and text from a client. Im receiving notifications throughout the day and its from their news portion we should defiantly be able to control whether we want this or not because i surely only want my messages
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3 years ago, Aseel1o
Suggest
Thank you .. I suggest adding a feature that helps send a message as broadcast to a large number of friends at the same time + and a feature that helps divide my number into groups, for example, work friends, parents, school friends .. because I want to send different messages to each group as broadcast
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6 months ago, Roberto El Savior Taylor
Ads make it useless.
2/3 of the screen are ads and every time I open the app or a message there's a full screen ad I have to wait for the opportunity to close. I understand ad revenue is what keeps these devs in business but this is ridiculous. Adding insult to injury it doesn't even send notifications when I get a message. I'm baffled this is the top rated option for Whatsapp on ipad. Edit: just read the other reviews and it looks like they also just copy and paste a response every time. How many of these positive reviews are paid for?
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2 years ago, WKUfan101
Wish It Worked For Me
WhatsApp has become the primary way we communicate in my business. Everyone has different types of phones these days so having an app like this is really helpful. Really wanted this one to work cause I like using my ipad for work related correspondence. Unfortunately, there are too many ads and it didn’t sync up every time. If they are able to fix all the constant ads and lagging issues, I’ll be back. Would be willing to pay a one-time fee for no ads.
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2 months ago, bakyie
New user
As a new user of this app it’s very useful and easy to download. I can now use my iPad and I’m not constantly on my phone using up all the battery life, it’s actually very helpful to me and allows me to keep my cell phone charged and I can use my company phone for company calls. Highly recommend 5 stars.
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3 months ago, Ytoprak
Ain’t know way it has so many ratings
First of all, the 5 star review by Matthew looks paid and suspicious. I doubt he could get this much specific information, and also complimenting the app excessively despite the other horrible reviews that are shown. And I doubt the overall rating is 4.3 also by the reviews i’m seeing on display. I also doubt half of any of the ratings are real, and i’m sure most of them are… bots. Also, devs, don’t complain to me, I know this whole biz is a scam. Yeah… no thanks Sorry if I was a bit harsh. But im being very honest with this review
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9 months ago, FairCritique
Too many full screen ads & the bottom half of the screen is always ads… :(
If you are thinking about using the free version of this app like I was, this app is really hard to use. For the free version, pretty much the bottom half of the screen is an ads that it’s really hard to see chats. And every so many seconds, a full screen ads pops up and you have to wait for them to go away so you waste your time. The free version was really useless for me. A few minutes after I downloaded this app, I ended up deleting it.
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5 months ago, Heal-Thy Living
Nothing like your iPhone-Half the page is ads
It is nothing like the iPhone WhatsApp, which i was hoping. I dont get why there is duo messenger for? Then the ads keep popping up and interrupting your messaging and the bottom of the page is ads. I did like how it sinked w my phone. I just deleted it bc it was not easy to navigate w accidentally clicking the ads when I was trying to type a message. I don’t recommend it. I still in search for another one to use.
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2 years ago, RaulGa
Crashes a lot
It crashes a lot, it doesn’t open properly: I have to kill the app several times a day in order to use it. It will take a few seconds to connect every time, it doesn’t feel like an app, more like something old .. Also, photos will open and then go too big when you click on them, which will just lock the photo on the whole screen, no way to close it and go back to chat/text. So App Kill again…
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5 months ago, Ray_lol
Why is there so many ads?! And we have to pay to call?! 😑
So when I first got in it took a while then there was soooo many ads before I got to the messages and it’s not just the ads why do we have to pay a subscription to be able to call?! I was trying to call my friends and it said I had to pay. Please work on this it’s getting annoying and I really don’t have a choice with this app since I don’t have my phone
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4 months ago, Maggie from the block
Disappointed in the ad space
Just installed WhatsApp on my iPad so i can get more invested in conversations from all my devices. I get monetization, and can deal with ads. However, the amount of real estate that the ads take on the iPad version is just obnoxious. Do you really need the bottom 3rd of the screen for ads? It’s just so disappointing. Fully recognizing that I can turn it off for a fee, for those of us who don’t want to pay that fee to be ad free - this is such a turn off for use of this app.
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2 years ago, PFRhoads
Ads Are Relentless
Even during my attempt to purchase, I was distracted (actually the entire screen was hijacked by an ad) by ads which made it difficult to purchase. You people are shooting yourself in the foot with your ad campaign. Once I finanly was able to reach the purchase screen to “remove ads”, the price to rent, NOT PURCHASE, the app with a subscription was ridiculous. Really? Sorry…gotta go!. I’ll find an alternative like WhatsPad Chat. It works great, and it’s only $2.99 to BUY. One time payment and you own it. No ads!
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3 years ago, LAS1992
Not a good app tons of ads
I just got an iPad and regular WhatsApp doesn’t work so I downloaded this app. It is filled with huge ads that try to cover the messages and it crashed the second time I opened it up…you also can’t automatically forward messages here from your sharing center like you can with regular WhatsApp or iMessage. Anyways I’ll use it because it’s the best option.
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1 year ago, Honest Ape
Pure garbage
Using whatapp for years but got a new phone and the app does not transfer the conversations to my new phone so i installed this app and it transfers everything fine , however it is complete and utter garbage ..every 2 minutes an ad pops up and you have to click in the upper right corner to continue with my whatsapp . In addition to this highly intrusive and annoying type of ads the lower half of my screen is completely covered with an huge ad …complete garbage !
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1 year ago, Illi-a
Worked great at first but now doesn’t load
I don’t know if a bug or something but after about a month of using the app it dose t load the messages it loads everything else and I can click on everything, even close the ads but it never loads the green bar fully and shows my contacts/messages
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3 years ago, Geekville
Don’t In App Purchase!!!
I liked this app well enough to pay to have the ads removed and gain more features. Don’t do it! I no longer have ads at the bottom of the screen, BUT NOW I have a giant full screen ad that comes up when I launch the app. I wish I could show you. And it’s even turned the wrong way. I then have to hit a button that says go on to the app. This is so deceptive it makes me want to delete the app.
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3 years ago, Paul Bunyan 22
My experience with the new numbers I have already
This. App has- so far in my past as when needed an app such as the WhatsApp completely satisfied my expatriation fully as normal thank u for allowing me to contribute my experience with u - have a wonderful day
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8 months ago, ELLADITSA
Ordering
Actually, I’m not little bit confused when you said duo unless you mean that you can order from two places at one time or does it mean that you can shop from me I didn’t try that yet actually
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12 months ago, Blissit108
ADS EVERY 4 SECONDS
There is no way to use the app - I have been trying to write a message for 5 minutes, and every 4 seconds (literally) another ad of a cam girl pops up! I am a heterosexual woman who is really spiritual and not into media. This is really annoying and offensive, and the fact that it’s constant cam girl ads makes it clear that I don’t want to support this app for their bad taste / lack of ethical alignment. Deleting now. Bummed that What’s App doesn’t have an actual app for iPad… why??
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2 years ago, wastedBuck
You will have no control
My iPad locked up after I tapped on the icon for the first time. I don’t remember the exact wording, but what this app does not give you a prompt that for example, reads: “ share my information, “ or “ don’t share my information”. The prompt reads: ask the app not to share my information. I can not tell you how many times I’ve asked for some thing I didn’t get it on top of that my iPad locked up. I had to reboot to get rid of that prompt
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3 years ago, TofSF
Bad app - super buggy, does not remember I paid for it
I purchased the add free version. It keeps not remembering that, and restore does not always work and then it loses it again. On top of that it is very buggy, distorts the screen, keeps reloading and crashes a lot. How can this app have a 4.5 rating in the app store? I use it in two different devices and on both of them it is buggy. Fix this app! Or give me my money back.
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2 years ago, musicfan12345678
Payment issues and not fully explained
I clicked on “get the app” and it automatically charged a payment. I didn’t agree to pay anything. I thought the app was free. This was misleading. Then I got a notification that said it is an unofficial app. I didn’t like that either, That should have been clearer… They shouldn’t use the what’s app logo to advertise, or at the very least make it clear that it is a third party app. I want my money back and then I will get rid of the app altogether.
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3 years ago, 2stones7890
Good app
To be honest this app is amazing it is exactly what I wanted, now I have WhatsApp on my iPad a great app. There is a problem with ads though they pop up and are very annoying sometimes but I don’t think that’s a hard thing to fix, so I love the app just hope the creators get rid of the ads.😇
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11 months ago, Diabrx
Took my money
Down loaded the app paid the $30 dollars and never worked. Will not recommend. Try it, you may have better luck or you may donate to the duo cause, what ever that it may be😜. This was not a pleasant experience!
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3 years ago, ChangeLeaveOrAccept
It works, sort of
Basically a piece of junk, but it does let you chat via WhatsApp on (say) an iPad. Crashes when you load the camera, photo library comes up in negative (!) (I’m mean, really? I have never see any app mess THAT up before) although you can attach pre-existing photos to a chat. The ads are annoying and it takes forever to load. At this point it’s a toss up between deleting and only using when absolutely necessary
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1 year ago, Melykeily
Please add.
I have recently started using this app and the only thing I dislike is that I do not receive notifications when a new message comes through. I have to open the app constantly to recheck and see if I get a message. It also takes a bit to load up everything again
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2 years ago, Королева Кортошки
ADS ADS ADS
there are two things wrong with this app. The first one is the number of ads. Every time you click something, an add pops up. Not just like half screen ads, but taking up the full screen ads. If you don’t want to see ads, be ready to pay $20 or a monthly fee. The second one is that you need a phone for it. Yes, I understand WhatsApp is usually for phone, but there’s a reason you want it on your iPad! You don’t want to have to use your phone to log in every time! This really annoyed me since my phone was broken for a while, and I couldn’t text anyone on WhatsApp. I really do not recommend this app. How it has 4 stars- I’m not sure 😒 It’s a bad app and I would recommend not wasting your time on it like I did.
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