Messenger

In-app purchases
4.5
106M reviews
5B+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
Rated for 12+
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About this app

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.
Updated on
Aug 20, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
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
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
102M reviews
Jennifer Parker
August 13, 2025
I have been having to force stop and reopen this app dozens of times a day for MONTHS. When I search a chat for something in the past, I can no longer go back to that part of the conversation, it just hangs. When I try to save a photo from a chat, I get a "couldn't save image" error. If I try to share a photo from a chat, I get "Sorry, something went wrong. please try again". The absolute worst, by far.
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Jessie Dingman
August 10, 2025
Very good app, does exactly as it's meant to do! I've only noticed one major issue... when your friends share multiple videos with you, it takes you into your FB feed in between each video. This happens even when I'm viewing messages through the Messenger app directly. We should be able to just stay in the messages or even scroll through the video messages all at one time, like TikTok. 😁 This has become a pretty annoying issue as 'Reels' become more popular. Would be a 5 ☆ if this was fixed!
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Diana Zhane Conte
July 4, 2025
Okay. It has been quite annoying at some random point while using messenger, my messages would get stuck in 'sending' and would not send at all after a few minutes or hours! My Internet connection is fine, but the app is not. Fix your app with its bugs, because it is inconvenient for what's supposed to be a fast communication app. Another bug. No matter how many times I delete, reinstall, clear the data, the preview for sending photos or even the ability to send photos is gone! Please fix this.
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