Facebook is working on a native Messenger application for Mac

If an image was worth more than a thousand words, we would already have confirmation that Facebook will soon present a native application for Mac of its messenger application, however this is not always the case and many times image leaks like the one we show you later in this post are nothing more than trial or pre-alpha versions of projects that are later canceled and do not continue their development.

However, according to the TechCrunch website, Facebook has every intention of launching this messenger desktop application, thanks to this website it has been possible to filter an image blurwhich supposedly shows a Facebook employee using the Messenger client on Mac, that is, a native application instead of having to use it from the browser.

If we stick to the leaked image that you can see just above, the application seems to have a navigation tab bar at the bottom left with different options that coincide with those already seen in the version for mobile platforms on iOS. Among these options we find the categories of Recents, Groups, Contacts and Settings. According to TechCrunch these options are not found in the unofficial Messenger apps, so the idea of ​​not being a third-party version is more established.

The company's goal is probably to create an "independent" experience of Facebook as a messaging client, as it happened on iOS back in 2011. However, unlike when Messenger was completely separated from the main Facebook application in 2014 On the desktop, the platform can continue to be available via the web together with the desktop application. Supposedly this app would come to compete with the already launched Google, WeChat, Line, Kik, and KakaoTalk.

In March 2012 Facebook announced their Windows Messenger application and confirmed that they were working on a Mac version that has not yet seen the light, more recently they created a webchat version of this application, but it has not been until now where we have been able to glimpse a dedicated application on Mac.