Franz for Mac
Chat app for Slack, HipChat, Skype and others.
Free
In English
Version 5.10.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Franz overview
Franz is a free messaging app/former Emperor of Austria and combines chat and messaging services into one application. He currently supports Slack, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, Skype, and Grape.
Franz allows you to add every service several times. This makes Franz the perfect tool to manage multiple business and private accounts at the same time. You can even use Facebook Messenger with five different accounts at once if some inexplicable reason urges you to do so.
This software has additional functionality that can be purchased on this page
What’s new in version 5.10.0
Bug Fixes
- Fix automatic spellcheck language detection (099f46d)
- Fix crash when Todos view is not initialized (0a35ffa)
- Fix issue where service can't be initialized when spellchecking language is not set (c089cd7)
- Remove screen id from share screen dialogue (b49117c)
Features
- Update electron to 22.3.18 (dae2d03)
Franz for Mac
Free
In English
Version 5.10.0
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Aug 1 2022
Version: 5.9.2
It works really well for consolidating all the apps that I use into 1; which is convenient. My only complaint, and a big complaint, with Franz is that it uses a lot of RAM and energy compared to if I just had all of the individual apps open.
For example when I just have chrome tabs open for my email accounts, slack, and discord open then significantly less RAM is being utilized compared to when I have all of those things in Franz which isn't a dealbreaker since systems have enough RAM for that.
The deal breaker for me is the energy utilization. I tend to work away from an outlet a bit and when Franz is open on my M1 MacBook Pro my battery life becomes 2 hours instead of 14-16 hours. It just DRAINS the battery compared to having chrome tabs open and the other apps open that I use it for.
TLDR; if you have this app on a computer that will always be plugged into a wall it's great but if you need to run off a laptop battery you may want to think twice before purchasing that subscription.
Feb 2 2021
Version: 5.6.1
love this application, however 2 concerns with glitches in google voice and slack. google voice doesn't push notifications anymore and always has to be reloaded to update, and slack constantly disconnects and has to be forced reconnected. hope these things get resolved in next update
Jan 24 2019
Version: 5.0.0-beta.18.903
I don't do subscription software. I would pay a lot for Franz, but I won't keep paying for it forever. I saw an alternative to this not too long ago, but I dismissed it because I already had Franz. Now that Franz gone subscription, I'd love someone to post what the alternative was!
Dec 24 2018
Version: 5.0.0-beta.18.903
NOT free, you have to pay in order to make it work !! Liars !!!
Aug 23 2018
Version: 5.0.0-beta.18.903
Love this app. It's my go-to to use Whatsapp on the desktop.
