Download and use Whattsapp on your computer post by Anand Garg

WhatsApp is the most popular and free mobile messaging application. You can easily send multimedia

files and text messages over the internet using WhatsApp. It supports almost every mobile device today.

 BlackBerry devices, Nokia Series 40, Symbian OS, Android, iPhone and Windows Phone are all the 

devices that can run WhatsApp. In addition to basic messaging you can create groups and can send

messages to these groups. You can send unlimited number of text messages, images, videos and audio

files. This article will teach you how you can easily download and run WhatsApp on your Windows or

Macintosh machine.

NOTE Scroll to the bottom of the article for full tutorial.

The foremost thing you need to make it work is the Android Emulator. Android emulator is an application

 that runs Android OS on your computer. There are many Android emulators available on the web, but in

 this tutorial, we will be using BlueStacks.

1. Download And Install BlueStacks Download any Android Emulator which will allow you to run Android

OS on your PC. We will use BlueStacks for this tutorial. You can use YouWave too. BlueStacks is a free

application and gives you the exact Android experience. BlueStacks App Player supports Mac OSX, Windows

XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. You can download BlueStacks from this link.

2. Searching The WhatsApp Application

Launch the installed BlueStacks App Player from the Start Menu or the desktop icon. After BlueStacks is

launched, click the “Search” application and search for WhatsApp. The application will show no results as 

the application is not installed. Now below the search results, there will be a link to find the WhatsApp 

application on the Google Play Store. Click that link.

You can’t access the Google Play Store until you sign into your existing Google account or create a new 

one. This will then enable the AppStore and the App Sync functionality.

3. Installing WhatsApp In BlueStacksOnce you sign in to your Google account, you will be taken to the Play Store app. Now search for WhatsApp

here and install the application.

4. Verifying Your Phone Number

After installation, open WhatsApp. It will ask for your phone number and the country you are in. Type the 

phone number and choose your country and click the “OK” button. Now you will receive a message on

the phone number you provided and the application will wait for 5 minutes to receive it.

Since WhatsApp is not running on your phone, the process of verifying the phone number will fail, the 

application will ask you to request for a call instead and give you a box to type in the code. You can 

type the code which you received in the message and that will verify your phone number.

Now you can add your name and it will automatically sync all your groups and new messages to the

WhatsApp application.

5. Adding Contacts

Contacts can be easily added by tapping the three dots in the top-right of the application and then 

selecting “Contacts. This will then open the contacts app and then you can add the contacts as you 

normally do on any Android device.

6. Sending Multimedia Files

You can also send multimedia files like images, videos, audio, etc, using WhatsApp on your PC.

Just click the clip like button in the top-right of the application while typing a new message.

I hope you’ll find this tutorial useful. BlueStacks not only lets you run WhatsApp on your PC but allows

you to run any Android app.