WhatsApp is an excellent mobile messaging app that was released in 2009. It became popular very quickly. Due to its increasing popularity, Facebook bought WhatsApp’s mobile messaging service on February 19, 2014, for $19 billion. Approximately more than 1 million people sign up for WhatsApp every day. Its popularity is mainly because users use cellular numbers to send messages over an internet connection, avoiding text messaging fees.
You can send text messages, images, audio messages, videos, and user locations using the internet. This mobile messaging app is available on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Symbian, and Tizan Operating Systems. Whatsapp has not released any version of Windows PC yet, but you can still download it. All you need is an internet connection to send a message through WhatsApp.
You can download and install Whatsapp on your PC using the following methods.
- Run Whatsapp inside your Chrome browser using Google ARC Welder.
- Run Whatsapp without using BlueStacks.
- Run Whatsapp via BlueStacks.
First Method
If you are using Chrome browser, then you can use WhatsApp inside your Chrome browser. Google ARC Welder is very convenient in that you don’t need to open any other window for Android Apps. You can manage your task in one window using different Chrome browser tabs.
Click the link below for the step-by-step guide to running WhatsApp using Google ARC Welder.
Note: The guide above is for WhatsApp and general apps and games. However, you can run Whatsapp in Chrome by following the step-by-step guide.
Second Method
If you don’t want to run WhatsApp on any Android Emulator, you can use a PC application known as WhatsApp. It is a non-official Whatsapp client that runs on PCs.
The link below will guide you on how to download and install WhatsApp on a PC and then how to run WhatsApp on WhatsApp. Click on the link to follow the step-by-step guide.
Third Method
You can also download Whatsapp for Windows PC and run it via BlueStacks. Follow the given steps to download and install the mobile messaging app.
Requirements
The essential requirement for downloading BlueStacks is to have Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Mac installed on your PC. BlueStacks does not work with any of the other OSs.
Download BlueStacks App Player
You must have an Android Emulator installed to download any Android application on your PC. Android Emulators enable Android applications to run on Windows and Mac PCs. BlueStacks is one of the good Android Emulators. If you do not have BlueStacks installed on your PC, download it from the link below.
Once you have downloaded BlueStacks, complete the installation process.
Download Whatsapp
- Â If you don’t have an account on the Google Play Store, set up your account.
-  You will see a search bar at the top of the page. Type “Whatsapp” in the search bar and hit enter.
- Â Click on the WhatsApp link from the list of search results.
- Click on the Install button so that the installation process may start.
- After installation, you can find WhatsApp in the App Drawer.
- Open the App Drawer of BlueStacks.
- Here, you’ll see the Whatsapp icon.
- Now, click on it and complete the signup process.
Note: Whenever you want to run WhatsApp, you must first run BlueStacks.
Now, enjoy communicating with your friends and family through WhatsApp. If you have any problems downloading Whatsapp for Windows PC, let me know in the comments below.
