Just earlier this week, Facebook had announced Project Lightspeed for their mobile Messenger app, overhauling it to make it faster, smaller and simpler. Now, Facebook has begun testing a macOS client of the Messenger, available on the Mac App Store in a few countries like France, Australia, Poland, etc.
The macOS app of the messenger offers most of the same features as the mobile app like texting, sharing files, emoji support, voice and video chat along with group chats, voice video calls. For the dark-mode enthusiasts, Facebook has also added a dark theme that will go along with dark mode on the macOS.
Apple offers two methods for developers to code mobile apps into a macOS compatible which are known as Electron and Catalyst. Facebook’s Messenger has been built with Electron which is a popular way of coding web apps into macOS apps. A Facebook spokesperson stated that Messenger app for macOS is currently being tested in a few countries with no date for wide-rollout yet.