About WeChat
WeChat is a free voice messaging and mobile text service. It allows you to keep in touch with your friends, no matter how far you are from each other! It is referred to as Weixin in China. This is a mobile messaging app from Tencent an internet company in China which was founded in 1998. It has become the most powerful smartphone app in China today and the fever is spreading fast to other countries.
In addition, it supports a large amount of different languages such as English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, amongst others. It is available for different platforms such as Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian.
This app has an intuitive and simple interface. When you hover over an icon in the interface, a detailed how to information message appears which helps you learn the functions of that particular icon.
Features
Free Messages
WeChat is a great alternative to other well-known apps that lets you send free messages to your contacts, such as WhatsApp or Line. It has ability to send free text messages and to add emotions to provide a more personal touch.
Do you want to make the most of this application from the moment you download it? Sending text messages with an app can be quite simple for you.
Live Chat
It offers the ability to do live chats with your friends and relatives. You just have to hold the button in the middle and start talking when the indicator light is green. This option only allows for one person to speak at a time. You can go back to the chat session at any moment when you want to finish the live chat.
Backup Chat History
We all know our mobile phones don’t last forever, and sometimes we have to buy a new one, thus losing all the information we had stored in the chat history. With WeChat latest version, this will never happen again! it includes the ability to back up your chat history and save it to your new smartphone.
Create a chat history backup to avoid losing important information when you buy a new phone. You can keep the backup history protected by setting a password. Remember: you will have just 7 days to restore the chat history or it will disappear.
Group Chat
The stand-out feature WeChat for Windows offers is the ability to create a group chat QR code. Although it can look like something really difficult. It means you can invite your friends to join a group chat using a QR code. This code is automatically created, and you just have to send it via email or save it to your phone. When your friend receives it, they just have to align the code within the given frame to be inside the group chat in a short moment!
Video Call
Do you want to see your friends in a live video? This is possible using the video call feature. You’ll find this capability in the window chat, called “Video Call”. When you receive a video call, you will see two large buttons on your phone screen. You can choose either Accept or Ignore. When you accept it (in the case you want to do so), you can switch between audio and video modes at any moment.
Find New Friends
Do you want to meet new friends? WeChat allows you to find your real friends or to meet new ones using its “Look around” and “Shake” features.
Look around: Meet friends near you who have installed WeChat…
The first one provides you a large list of people who have this application installed, who happen to be near you. On the other hand, it’s true that this option has some flaws, as it might usually show you people from China or even further away from your location, whilst you are searching for friends in Europe, for example.
Shake: Chat with friends who are connected online…
The “Shake” feature is more interesting because it allows you to find people who are shaking their mobiles at the same time you are doing so. You can then start a conversation with this new friend.
Installation & Usability
The installation process is very easy. After installation, you have to log in by inserting your phone number, username, and password. A confirmation code will be sent to your phone number to verify the number. Complete the verification process and start enjoying the app. You can also set up your WeChat account with Facebook.
The app offers three accounts; service account, subscription account, and enterprise account. You can use the accounts for multiple purposes such as pre-registering in hospitals, visa renewal, credit card service, and so on.
Work Fast
The app similar to other such apps works more reliably. You can share messages, photos, voice messages, images, and other multimedia content. You can organize groups and make audio/video calls up to 9 people at one time.
Quick Share
Other important services that you can get from downloading this app is the location sharing option, contacts sharing, games sharing and even sharing your moments. You can share your moments through WeChat directly to social platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Unlimited Stickers
The app offers a large variety of stickers, emojis, and GIFs. You can express your feelings via sending on-the-spot stickers.
Supports Multiple Languages
The app supports about 20 languages. With a single-click translate the messages and other content in your own language. Language is not a barrier with this app because you can simply translate the text into your own language.
Mini-programs
Mini-programs are an entertaining app in WeChat for PC. Install these programs and watch entertaining programs. You can promote your business through it. You can play Mini Games also as well as share your real-time location with your friends and family.