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WhatsApp for Desktop

Communication — Beautiful Mac, Windows & Linux desktop client for WhatsApp — WhatsApp for Desktop gives you the …
Communicationfreemiumest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
11
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 1647 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
whatsapp.com
edge
direct origin
server
proxygen-bolt
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

WhatsApp for Desktop's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 11 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
WeChatcommunicationsimilar69%0.00.0■ inactive
VIPole Private Messengercommunicationsimilar67%46.00.0● live
Vibercommunicationsimilar62%49.90.0● live
Nero Burning ROMproductivitytag-overlap58%48.70.0● live
ScreenMeetcommunicationsimilar58%48.70.0● live
Footprintproductivitytag-overlap58%40.00.0● live
Snapchat Chat 2.0communicationsimilar58%9.80.0— unverified
Blink Litecommunicationsimilar55%41.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives1
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:13Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt743unknown
2026-08-19 14:08Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt982unknown
2026-08-11 00:42Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt1255unknown
2026-08-08 06:37Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt1193unknown
2026-08-05 18:56Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt1845unknown
2026-07-30 18:10Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt1189unknown
2026-07-23 09:33Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt884unknown
2026-07-17 09:36Z10005timeout
2026-07-11 08:56Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt1707unknown
2026-07-04 12:54Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt479unknown
2026-06-23 14:03Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt553unknown
2026-06-21 17:07Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt38unknown
2026-06-21 17:07Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt619unknown
2026-06-20 00:47Z403whatsapp.comproxygen-bolt1559unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · WhatsApp for Desktop · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/whatsapp-for-desktop · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.