How to use WhatsApp on your PC/ laptop without Bluestacks Using Pidgin

Ever wished to use WhatsApp from your computer? That too without using BlueStacks or any other emulators and virtual machines? Here is a quick and easy method that is completely free, reliable and friendly on your computer resources.

• WhatsApp registration tool, WART, from http://davidgf.net/nightly/whatsapp-purple/win32/

• Get Pidgin from pidgin.im/download

OR

• Get portable version of Pidgin, so that you can take it with you on your pen drive, from portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable

• Get WhatsApp-Purple latest binary from davidgf.net/nightly/whatsapp-purple

1. Run WART and give your phone number with country code.

1. Example: 61 is the country code for Australia (http://countrycode.org/)

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1. Leave the password field blank and click on Request Code button.

1. You will get a SMS/call from WhatsApp shortly with a code.

1. Type the code in the WART tool and click on Confirm Code button. It will give you a password, copy it to a text file.

1. Install Pidgin but do not run it. If it launched automatically, use Ctrl + Q to quit it or Buddies -> Quit.

1. Copy the last-whatsapp.dll file into plugins directory within your Pidgin installation (Pidgin Portable/Apps/plugins or C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Pidgin\plugins).
   

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1. Launch Pidgin.

1. Click on Add button if Pidgin launches the user account setup wizard automatically. If not, click on Accounts > Manage Accounts > Add.

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1. In Basic tab, Login Options section, Select WhatsApp as the protocol. Your phone number with country code as user name Give the password you got from WART in step 4.

1. Click on Add button.

Click on Buddies > New Instant Message > Give your friend's phone number with country code > Click on OK button.

Click on Buddies > Add Buddy > Give your friend's phone number with country code and provide other details > Click on Add button.

What you need:

Here is how you can use WhatsApp running on your computer:

To give an instant message:
To add a buddy:

PS: If you are Linux/ Mac user, you can also enjoy WhatsApp. Steps are almost same, just go through the instructions

Note

Whatsapp allows only one client for an account at any instant of time. So if you are using an account on desktop, you will not be able to use that account from Whatsapp on your phone. If you want to use that account from your phone, you will have to re-register from your phone on Whatsapp.