crmne/zapfast
ZapFast: a fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #1 among iOS repositories ranked this week; #77 of 182 repositories with measured growth this week (top 42%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 90 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #77 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 1, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, native WhatsApp client for Linux, macOS, and Windows using Rust and egui without a browser engine.
- Delivers a lightweight, resource-efficient desktop app with quick startup and low memory usage compared to WhatsApp Web.
- Use for accessing WhatsApp chats natively on desktop with multi-account support and encrypted local message storage.
- Use for developers seeking a privacy-focused WhatsApp client that keeps all data on the local machine without external servers.
- Use for users wanting a customizable interface with themes, keyboard shortcuts, and native notifications across major desktop OSes.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
WhatsApp, native and fast. A lightweight WhatsApp app for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
ZapFast is a WhatsApp client written in Rust with egui and fastframe, the framework behind a family of native desktop apps. It links to your phone as a companion device through whatsapp-rust and has no browser engine. In our Linux test it opens in under a second and uses about 200 MB of idle RAM, against 1.13 GB for WhatsApp Web. See the measurements.
The interface is available in English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+839 stars over 7 days across 6 snapshot days; best day +313 on Nov 6.
Forks
327+60
Open issues
137-5
Compared with peers in iOS
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 5.8K | +2.0K | 45 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.3K | +839 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| crmne/zapfast | 3.1K | +839 | 60 | 2 days ago |
| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| crmne/spotifast | 9.8K | +388 | 60 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 9.8K | +839 | 45 | — |
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