Messenger is a free messaging app that helps you connect with anyone, anywhere. Stay in touch with your friends and family, explore your interests with people like you, build your community, and share your vibe beyond words, all in one app.
CHAT AND CALL ANYONE, ANYWHERE Find and connect with your friends and family on Facebook and Messenger, no phone number needed.
GET INSTANT ANSWERS FROM YOUR AI ASSISTANT* Meta AI is your assistant that can answer any questions, give you advice, help with homework, and more.
SEND YOUR PHOTOS IN HIGH DEFINITION Send and receive clearer, crisper picture of your favorite moments with Messenger.
CREATE SHARED ALBUMS From a recent summer vacation to your grandma’s 80th birthday, create albums of photos and videos to share, organize and reminisce over important moments in your group chats.
EASILY ADD NEW CONNECTIONS WITH QR CODES Connect with people you meet in real life by scanning their Messenger QR code or sharing yours via a link.
SHARE LARGE FILES DIRECTLY IN CHAT Whether it’s a Word, PDF, or Excel doc, you can send large files up to 100MB right inside of Messenger.
EDIT AND UNSEND MESSAGES Hit send too soon? You can edit the message up to 15 minutes after sending
DISAPPEARING MESSAGES Some things aren’t meant to last forever. Choose how long your end-to-end encrypted chats stick around after they’ve been read.
COME TOGETHER WITH YOUR COMMUNITIES Meaningfully connect with people like you from your school, neighborhood, and interest groups.
GET IN YOUR FAVORITE CREATORS’ INNER CIRCLE Stay in the know with creators by joining their broadcast channels for authentic and casual content.
UNLEASH YOUR IMAGINATION W/ META AI* Tap into your go-to creative partner to create, edit, animate images and more.
CAPTURE EVERYDAY MOMENTS ON STORIES Highlight moments of your day using photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours in Stories.
DROP A NOTE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS Stay connected with your friends by sharing quick updates that disappear after 24 hours.
BRING YOUR VIBE TO YOUR CHATS Sometimes words just don’t cut it. Tap into more ways to express yourself with animated stickers, GIFs, reactions and more.
SET THE MOOD OF YOUR CHAT WITH THEMES Customize your chat with a large and constantly evolving list of themes featuring popular artists, holidays, and more.
*Meta AI is available in select languages and countries only, with more coming soon.
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Nov 10, 2025
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This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 12 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Catherine Ealey
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November 14, 2025
I want to rate it better but can't I've had messenger for years, never had an issue with it until the last few months. it keeps crashing and shutting down. I've come here for help?! I keep getting notifications off my phone saying there must be a bug as it will not operate. Last month I could open it, but not view my channel follows, this month, I just can't open it at all. it was working fine last night, then around 6am this morning it just started crashing constantly.
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Rebecca
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September 3, 2025
I don't like not being able to see my entire message as I'm typing it. 😡 Apparently you've changed this app to show only two lines of text at a time. This is stupid and very annoying! Please change it back so I can see my ENTIRE message as I'm writing it! Add more settings so we can adjust things for the way we like it!!!! This review is NOT for an "older version". I have the most up to date version!
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Bradley Haley
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October 29, 2025
for the past 30 minutes, I've been trying to open Facebook messenger only to have it claim that it did a forced close due to a bug. I've already cleared the catche and uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and it is still giving me problems. so yeah, Facebook, you can keep your usual frase "troubleshooting will fix the problem". and yes, Facebook, I do have the latest version instead. according to what I've been seeing online,it's been a consistent problem for almost everyone for the past 7 days.