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wptui is a keyboard-driven WhatsApp client for the terminal. It combines a Rust/Ratatui terminal interface with the Go whatsmeow library to provide Vim-inspired chat navigation, chat browsing and search, message sending and editing, replies, reactions, quoted-message inspection, clipboard text/image/file pasting, attachment captions, media downloads and previews, contact avatars, and desktop notifications. Accounts can be linked with a QR code or phone pairing code. The client stores its database, media, and session locally in ~/.local/share/wptui/ and exchanges data with WhatsApp servers for linking and synchronization. Image rendering uses libchafa; prebuilt binaries are provided for Linux x86_64 and macOS Apple Silicon, and the project can also be built from source with Rust, Go, and CGO.
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A WhatsApp client that runs entirely in a terminal. It provides Vim-style chat navigation, replies, reactions, image attachments, and inline media rendering, while keeping session and history in a local folder.
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