VOIP service by Tencent that can make free video and voice calls no matter where you are.
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What is WeChat?
WeChat is a complete mobile communication and private social networking app. Free, cross-platform, and full-featured, WeChat is the best way to keep in touch with everyone you care about.
Features WECHAT OUT CALLS: Make calls to landlines and mobile around the globe at low rates (in certain regions only). • MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING: Send video, image, text, and voice messages. • GROUP CHAT & CALLS: Create group chats with up to 500 people and group video calls up to 9 people. • FREE VOICE & VIDEO CALLS: High-quality free calls to anywhere in the world. • STICKER GALLERY: Hundreds of free, fun, animated stickers to express your feelings from some of your favorite cartoons and movies. • MOMENTS: Share your best moments on your personal photo stream. • BETTER PRIVACY: WeChat gives you the highest level of control over your privacy. It's the only messaging app to be certified by TRUSTe. • MEET NEW FRIENDS: Use “Friend Radar”, “People Nearby” and “Shake” to meet others. • REALTIME LOCATION: Instead of having to tell others where you are, just use real-time location sharing. • LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Localized in 20 different languages and can translate messages to any language. • AND MORE: Desktop app, custom wallpapers, custom notifications, and Official Accounts.
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Supported Languages
- English
- Arabic
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
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- 4.06 avg rating
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- Group Chat
- Game
- Social Network
- share-location
- Smartphone Messaging
- meet-people
- Nearby Chat
- group-call
- Photo Sharing
- Chat
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WeiHua Liu Upvoted a comment on WeChat**No privacy **at all. Never trust any of them.
Actually WeChat is very problematic application for those who are living outside of China. Especially Americans, Malaysians and South Africans are hardly register to the app because of security check process. The application may require you to register with assistant registration. For an assistant registration, you will need a friend and your friend needs to own a WeChat Wallet, his account should be 1 year-old at the least and he shouldn't have activated an account for a year. For an American or European having such a friend is almost impossible. People are facing this problem too much. Since I am owner of a unofficial troubleshooting website about WeChat, we were getting almost 100 questions about verifying account daily. I assume almost 1000 people are facing with this problem everyday and it makes almost 400.000 users yearly. Most of those people who face with this error are quit using the app. We also got many complaints about WeChat support about the same issue, some of application users reported that they haven't got any response for this problem about months. They should certainly remove this verification mode if WeChat wants to be international. (I am sure they want it with investments on WeChat Go, WeChat South Africa, etc.)
The other problem with the application is verification code. It is highly likely that some GSM operators has been blocked some Chinese services and people can't able to receive these verification codes. WeChat haven't fix this problems for years. This problem exists almost about 6 years and couldn't fix yet.
There are also many known bugs with WeChat Sake, WeChat People Nearby features of the application. There are also many downsides and cons of the app.
However WeChat is one of the most fun messenger applications that you will have in your phone. There are many good features. You can make new friends who are already seeking friends with shaking their phone. WeChat has focused on publishing new features so much. However they should focus on fix verification system first because their current style doesn't make any sense at the moment. They should also fix those bugs anymore. People are tired of complaining about those.
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Everyone use WeChat in China. And it can do everything.
**No privacy **at all. Never trust any of them.
There is absolutely no reason to use this app unless you have many friends in China, or do business/live in China.
It is a bloated memory hog, and it is based in China where the government has full control over the data.
If you care about your privacy, do not use this.
Additionally, China passed a law a few years ago that says they can imprison anyone who speaks out against the government, anywhere in the world. It is theoretically targeted towards its own citizen dissidents, but I would be wary.
The app has become bloated year by year by bundling non-messaging related features and plug-ins into the app which makes the app size not just heavier and larger, but also slowing down the phone and a sore eyes for those who prefer just a simple messaging app.
WeChat can do everything. That means WeChat is too bloated.
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The main problem is politics, it's been accused for censoring political problems in China like human rights abuse. Other than that, WeChat is one of the best app I've used, and has great features that no other app has like "Message in a bottle" which you put message in a bottle and someone can fish and open it. Ignore most of these 1 star review, they are people who are too political and are biased. Rate this as "Not Helpful" all you want but no one's going to change my opinion. [Edited by Q_Q, August 19]
I like WeChat and I use it regularly. My only complain is with regard to the chat stickers that we usually end up paying! If only all those emoticons were for free. One of my friends recently suggested me Photo4tune which is also available for download on Playstore. One thing good about Photo4tune is their event creation feature apart from the emoticons and chat stickers.