Messenger

58 of 100 · reviews
4.7of 5 · store
12,846,594ratings on the App Store
445reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A messenger built on the Facebook network with good call and video quality. The main flaw is duplicate and delayed notifications, and a persistent Meta AI that cannot be turned off.

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What people use it for

Facebook users who want to call and message in one place

What reviews praise

Video calls work cleanly and stably, connecting people across the world with no noticeable lag.

What reviews complain about

Read-message notifications repeat hours later, making it impossible to know what is actually new.

What users experience

4 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

The app is very useful for long-term conversations. But in the past few months, I've been getting notifications for "new" messages up to 24 hours after I've read them. Just now I got a notification for a message that I read over an hour ago.

Please bring back "Write with Meta AI" and keep it in Messenger. I used it daily for drafting messages, fixing tone, and brainstorming replies. It made Messenger way more useful. Removing it hurts the experience.

Meta AI suggestions are intrusive. Please add an option to disable or totally opt-out of Meta AI.

Why do you need to make me install another stupid app just to see the messages from facebook? You can say "because it is focused on messaging and makes it more organized" but when I want to watch a reel my wife sent me, I gotta open it again because it closes the whole thing