Altus
Altus is an Electron-based WhatsApp client with themes and multiple account support, available for Windows, Mac and Linux!
Features
Altus uses the GitHub-produced Electron framework to wrap around WhatsApp Web and add extra features to it.
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Multiple Account Support: As of v2.0, you can use multiple WhatsApp accounts simultaneously!
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Native notification support for all of the platforms. Clicking the notification opens that specific chat!
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Online Indicator: Shows an indicator at the bottom-left corner of the chats that are online!
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Dark mode for when you need to chill out your eyes in the night (or even in the day)
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Custom Theme Support: Write your own CSS theme for WhatsApp or use the in-built Theme Customizer to create a new one just by picking colors!
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Available for most desktop platforms including Windows (7 or above), Linux and MacOS.
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Tray icon so you can minimize the app completely and still receive notifications.
Feature Requests
In order to submit a feature request, create a new issue with the label enhancement
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Please make sure that you provide a helpful description of your feature request. If possible, try implementing the feature yourself by forking this repository and then creating a pull request.
Screenshots
First Start
Default Theme
"Dark Plus" Theme
Acknowledgements
Below is the list of the dependencies that helped me greatly to create this app.
Dark-Whatsapp (vednoc/dark-whatsapp) - used as the base for the dark theme. A really cool project, you should definitely check it out!
Inter rsms/inter - The font used in Altus.
electron-store (sindresorhus/electron-store) - used to store information of settings, tabs and themes
Contributors
Below is the list of contributors who have contributed to Altus by creating a feature or helping fix an issue.
Melvin-Abraham - Helped fix issues #55, #53
Dylan McDougall - PR #10 (Added feature - Confirmation Dialog on close)
Dafnik - PR #5 (Helped fix issue #4)
Marcelo Zapatta - PR #77 (Fixed #23 by adding tray icon support on Linux)
Maicol Battistini - PR #153 (Added Italian translation)
Hugo Rocha de Moura - PR #185 (Added Portuguese(pt) translation)