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Caprine is a full-featured, open source, elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app.

Characteristics

Dark mode

You can switch between dark mode in the View menu or with Command d / Control d.

Hide names and avatars

You can prevent others from seeing who you are chatting with by activating the “Hide names and avatars” function in the “View” menu or with Command/Control Shift n.

Life force

On macOS, you can turn on the window effect in the View menu.

Privacy

You can choose to prevent people from knowing when you’ve seen a message and when you’re typing. These settings are available under the Caprine/File menu.

Mute desktop notifications

You can quickly disable receiving notifications from the Caprine/File menu or the Dock on macOS.

Hide notification message preview

You can toggle the Show message preview in the Notifications setting in the Caprine/File menu.

Prevents link tracking

Links you click on will not be tracked by Facebook.

Go to call hotkey

You can switch conversations the same way you switch browser tabs: Command/Control n (where n is 1 to 9).

Compact mode

The interface adapts when resized to a small size.

Desktop notifications

Desktop notifications can be turned on in Settings.

Always on top

You can switch between whether Caprine stays on top of other windows in the Window/View menu or with Command/Control Shift t.

Work Chat support

Support for Work Chat: Messenger for Workplace. You can switch to it in the Caprine/File menu.

Code blocks

You can send blocks of code using Markdown syntax.

Background behavior

When you close the window, the app will by default continue to run in the background, in the dock on macOS and the tray on Linux/Windows. Right-click the dock/tray icon and select Quit to exit the app completely. On macOS, click the dock icon to display the window. On Linux, right-click the icon and select Toggle to switch between the windows. On Windows, click the icon to switch between windows.

Note that you can change the behavior of Caprine so that the app closes when the window closes. For this, you must go to the settings and click on Exit at Close window.

Highlights:

• Dark theme
• Lively theme*
• Privacy focused
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Menu Bar Mode*
• Work Chat support
• Code blocks
• Touch Bar support
• Custom styles
• Disable autoplay for videos
• Cross platform
• Silent automatic updates
• Custom text size
• Emoji style setting
• Respect Do Not Disturb*

*macOS only

What is new

• Dark mode fix (top gap, icons, radio button accent color)
• Fix insert buttons (GIF, Sticker, Emoji, Files)
• Fix “Find Conversation” feature
• Fix “Show message buttons” option by @lefterisgar and @dusansimic in #1881
• Fix private mode by @lefterisgar in #1884
• Remove code related to old design by @lefterisgar in #1879
• Various improvements to readme by @Danik1601, @dusansimic and @lefterisgar in #1885