WeChat for PC

★ ★ ★ WeChat Overview

What is WeChat? WeChat is a messaging and social media app that offers a wide range of features and services to its one billion users worldwide. It allows users to chat, make calls, read news, use local services, play games, and enjoy mobile payment features with WeChat Pay.

Software Features and Description

1. Chat and make calls with friends, read news and use local services in Official Accounts and Mini Programs, play games with friends, enjoy mobile payment features with WeChat Pay, and much more.

2. • GAMES: Have fun and compete with friends in a huge selection of WeChat Mini Games and Tencent Games (available in select regions).

3. • WECHAT OUT: Make calls to mobile phones and landlines around the globe at super low rates (only available in select regions).

4. • WECHAT PAY: Enjoy the convenience of world-leading mobile payment features with WeChat Pay and Wallet (available in select regions).

5. • MINI PROGRAMS: Countless third-party services all within the WeChat app that don’t require additional installation, saving you precious phone storage and time.

6. • MORE WAYS TO CHAT: Message friends using text, photo, voice, video, location sharing, and more.

7. • WERUN: Use Healthkit and Health app data to sync your step count on WeRun, where you can compete against friends with daily step rankings.

8. Post photos, videos, and more to share with friends on your personal Moments stream.

9. • STICKER GALLERY: Browse thousands of fun, animated stickers to help express yourself in chats, including stickers with your favorite cartoon and movie characters.

10. • LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Localized in 20 different languages and can translate friends' messages and Moments posts.

11. • BETTER PRIVACY: Giving you the highest level of control over your privacy, WeChat is the only messaging app to be certified by TRUSTe.

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Download and install WeChat on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
WeChat	Get App ↲	73,212 4.00	WeChat

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install WeChat app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using WeChat on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "WeChat"
The search will reveal the WeChat app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once WeChat is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including WeChat.
Now enjoy WeChat on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	WeChat	4.00	8.0.52

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native WeChat Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use WeChat,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "WeChat" » then Click "Install".
- WeChat will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get WeChat on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	WeChat	73212	4.00

Download on Android: Download Android

WeChat functions

- Multiple ways to chat, including text, photo, voice, video, and location sharing

- Group chats with up to 500 members

- High-quality voice and video calls to anywhere in the world

- Real-time location sharing

- Moments feature to share photos, videos, and more with friends

- Time Capsule feature to record short videos that disappear in 24 hours

- Sticker gallery with thousands of fun, animated stickers

- Custom stickers and selfie stickers

- Official accounts with original content and news

- Mini programs for third-party services within the app

- Top stories to see the latest articles your friends are reading

- WeChat Mini Games and Tencent Games for fun and competition with friends

- WeChat Pay and Wallet for world-leading mobile payment features

- WeChat Out for low-rate calls to mobile phones and landlines

- WeRun feature to sync step count and compete with friends

- Localized in 20 different languages and can translate messages and Moments posts

- Highest level of control over privacy, certified by TRUSTe

- Easy mode with clearer and larger text and buttons for better readability.

✔ Pros:

- WeChat allows for easy communication with friends and family across the world

- The app offers a variety of cute stickers to use in conversations

☹ Cons:

- Accounts can be easily blocked or disabled for suspicious activity or inactivity, with no clear resolution process

- The new interface is too white and lacks contrast, making it harder to navigate

- The subscriptions message folder is cumbersome and not useful for all users

- The app requires a phone number to sign up, making it difficult for users without a phone number to use the app

- The app may default to Chinese writing even when the user inputs a US phone number

Top Pcmac Reviews

Used to love but Customer Support is horrible

By MeekaCat (Pcmac user)

I have friends that live in various parts of the world and I loved using this app to communicate with them. I went on a trip to visit said friends, resulting in no need for use of the app since I was there, in person with them. My account goes inactive since I wasn’t using it for a few weeks and when I come back to sign on, it gives me an error message saying my account may have been “hijacked” or disabled for inactivity and I have to get another user to unblock my account. It gives me instructions on how the friend can unblock me so I find an alternative way to communicate with them to do so, but when they follow the given steps, it does not work. I have submitted multiple support tickets for MONTHS for help resolving this and no one has gotten back to me. Not even a confirmation email that the ticket was received. The only reason I don’t trash this app is that I have important information in the messages that I’d at least like to get back to. If I should ever get any freaking help. Horrible service.
Broke a Working Function; Horrible New Interface

By BYM35145664 (Pcmac user)

Not all of my subscriptions are equally pressing for me to read, so now I have this cumbersome extra step of having to click on the dropdown menu in order to get to the old view of my subscriptions in order to see which ones I currently want to look at. Maybe the subscriptions message folder is useful for some people, but now it just makes me not want to use subscriptions. At least make it optional, or give us the choice of whether to view the old view or the messages view first please. As for the new interface it is way too white, and there is not enough contrast. The update says it’s supposed to be more intuitive and easier to use but now it’s actually harder to navigate because of the color scheme used for all the sections. Also, there is so much wasted space in the margins around messages and text, and everything looks so spaced out (not condensed) which is frustrating. DO NOT UPDATE.
This app doesn’t help.

By This app is a DISSAPOINTMSNT (Pcmac user)

First of all, it offers iPads and iPods this app BUT it has to have a phone number. iPads and iPods do NOT have phone numbers. You’d have to use your moms, dads, or even siblings number to have the number. Second of all, I said I was from the US, even put +1 before I typed in my sister’s phone number, and it did CHINESE WRITING!!! That got on my nerves SO MUCH BECAUSE HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO READ CHINESE WRITING WHEN I LIVE IN THE US?!?!?!??!??!?!!?!? UGGGHH THAT MADE ME WANNA SQUEEL!!!!!! I’ve never had such bad experience with trying to get an app were I can finally text my dad. That’s the thing, he has a Samsung, I have an iPod, I don’t have a phone number, and Samsung’s can ONLY text other phone numbers. THIRD of all..... I LOOKED AT THE RATINGS AND ALMOST EVERYONE GOT BLOCKED FROM THE APP LITERALLY FOR NO REASON!!!! THIS APP IS TERRIBLE I HATE IT!!! I THINK IT SHOULD GET BANNED BECAUSE EVERYONE WAS SO HAPPY WITH IT UNTIL THEY GOT BLOCKED AND THOSE OF YOU WHO LIKE THIS APP WONT LIKE IT WHEN YOU GET BLOCKED FOR NO REASON!!!! I HASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASAAAAAAAATE this app!!! This is why this app didn’t help me AT ALL.
Account blocked due to “suspicious activity”

By Sapphire a (Pcmac user)

I made a this app account yesterday. I set a profile picture, downloaded some of the cute stickers, and that’s it. I didn’t do anything else in the app. This morning when I try to log in, it says my account is blocked due to suspicious activity. I’m like “ok...I guess I can request for it to be unblocked.” So I go through this lengthy process to unblock my account which, mind you, should never have been blocked in the first place. Then I get to the step where the only way to unblock it is through a friend on this app who has made an account over 6 months ago. Well guess what? I DON’T HAVE ONE. I made an account about a year earlier and the same thing happened then. My account was blocked when I hadn’t even used it. I wasted my time trying to unblock the account. I ended up deleting the app then, and I’ll be deleting it again right now.