# Volt

> Volt is an AI-powered WhatsApp client for professionals who manage high volumes of WhatsApp messages daily. Often described as Slack for WhatsApp. Native desktop apps for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows, plus a Chrome extension for WhatsApp Web. Free and paid plans — see Pricing.

Volt adds productivity tools, keyboard shortcuts, and AI features on top of WhatsApp to help users save up to 4 hours a week. Some features operate locally, while optional Volt Cloud features securely process and store the data needed to provide them. Volt earns revenue from subscriptions — not advertising or selling user data.

## Product

- [Home](https://voltchat.com): Landing page with feature overview, testimonials, and free download
- [Pricing](https://voltchat.com/pricing): Plans and feature comparison — Individual ($9.99/month) and Teams (custom pricing)

## Platforms

- macOS: Native desktop app — Apple Silicon and Intel
- Windows: Native desktop app
- Chrome extension: For WhatsApp Web (Chromium-based browsers)

## Features

- Lists: Organize contacts into custom lists with emoji icons and keyboard navigation
- Scheduled messages: Compose messages now and schedule them to send at a future date and time
- Audio transcription: Automatic multilingual transcription of voice messages — text is ready when you open the chat
- Audio summaries: AI-generated summaries for longer voice messages so you get the key points instantly
- Keyboard shortcuts: Full keyboard-driven navigation — move between chats, react, reply, forward, pin, and star without touching the mouse; per-message shortcuts and Cmd+/ (Mac) or Ctrl+/ (Windows) for the shortcut reference
- Unread filter: One-click filter to see only your pending conversations
- Broadcasts: Send personalized messages to a list or privately to every member of a WhatsApp group — multiple messages, media, variables, and delivery progress tracking
- Silenced inbox: Schedule focus hours to mute distractions during work, and silence work chats on weekends
- File preview: Open PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents inline without downloading or switching apps
- Privacy Mode: Hide sensitive chats while screen sharing — peek on hover, hide again automatically, or turn off with one click
- Group history when adding members: Optionally share up to 100 messages of context when you add someone to a group, instead of sending screenshots

## Blog

- [All posts](https://voltchat.com/blog): Product updates, feature deep-dives, and engineering articles

### Releases

- [One Place for All Your Volt Integrations](https://voltchat.com/blog/volt-app-store): Volt's integrations are now in a single App Store. One entry point to discover, connect, and manage every app.
- [Building Volt's Onboarding, Twice](https://voltchat.com/blog/volt-onboarding): Volt had no product onboarding for most of its life. We built it, found out it wasn't working, and rebuilt it. Here's what changed and why.
- [Introducing Volt Cloud](https://voltchat.com/blog/introducing-volt-cloud): Volt Cloud is the always-on connectivity layer that powers Send Later, Claude, ChatGPT, and MCP. One QR scan from your phone, and Volt keeps working even when your PC is off.
- [Volt Is Now on Windows](https://voltchat.com/blog/volt-windows-release): Volt is now available on Windows. The full desktop experience, previously macOS-only, is here for Windows users.
- [Start a Meeting from Any Chat](https://voltchat.com/blog/meet-zoom-integration): Just type /zoom or /meet and an instant meeting is created. You can send it in the conversation, without leaving the app.
- [Broadcast Improvements: More Ways to WhatsApp Your Contacts at Once](https://voltchat.com/blog/broadcast-improvements): Volt Broadcasts now let you message everyone in a list or privately reach every member of a WhatsApp group — with multiple messages, media, and real-time progress tracking.
- [Privacy Mode: Hide WhatsApp Chats While You Share Your Screen](https://voltchat.com/blog/privacy-mode): Privacy Mode helps you hide sensitive WhatsApp chats when sharing your screen. You can peek on hover, hide again automatically, and toggle everything off with one click.
- [Volt Is Now Available as a Chrome Extension](https://voltchat.com/blog/volt-chrome-extension): Volt is now available as a Chrome extension. All the features you know from the desktop app, running directly inside WhatsApp Web.
- [No more screenshots when you add someone to a group](https://voltchat.com/blog/share-group-history-when-adding-members): When you add someone to a WhatsApp group in Volt, you can now share up to 100 messages of history so they have context from day one. No screenshots needed.
- [Zendesk tickets, straight from WhatsApp](https://voltchat.com/blog/zendesk-integration): You can now create and manage Zendesk tickets directly from WhatsApp conversations in Volt. No tab switching, no copy-pasting.
- [Message shortcuts: every action, one key away](https://voltchat.com/blog/message-shortcuts): Volt now has keyboard shortcuts for every message action. React, reply, forward, pin, star, and more without ever touching the mouse.
- [Instant audio transcripts and summaries](https://voltchat.com/blog/instant-audio-transcripts): Volt now transcribes voice messages automatically. When you open a chat, the text is already waiting for you. And if the audio is too long, an automatic summary is used instead.
- [You can now add icons to your lists!](https://voltchat.com/blog/add-icons-to-lists): Add icons to list launch!
- [Experimenting with broadcasts](https://voltchat.com/blog/experimenting-with-broadcasts): When Migue built a quick tool to notify updates for our event, his Instagram DMs blew up. That moment revealed a blind spot: by focusing too narrowly on product-market fit, Volt had been ignoring new user needs. We vibe-coded a rapid prototype and discovered how much time we could save people on WhatsApp.
- [Introducing Navigation Shortcuts for WhatsApp](https://voltchat.com/blog/navigation-shortcuts): Navigate inside WhatsApp chats with just your keyboard — reply, react, forward, and open media faster than ever. Volt’s newest shortcut update brings full message navigation to your fingertips.
- [Open WhatsApp Documents Instantly with Volt’s File Native Opener](https://voltchat.com/blog/file-opener): Stop switching apps just to open WhatsApp documents! With File Native Opener, Volt lets you preview PDFs, spreadsheets, and more—right inside the app. No downloads, no distractions—just seamless file access.
- [Take Control of Your WhatsApp with Silenced Inbox](https://voltchat.com/blog/silenced): Stay focused when it matters and unplug when you need to! Volt’s new Silenced feature lets you mute distractions during work hours and silence work chats on weekends. Take full control of your inbox and manage your time better.
- [Introducing Audio Summaries and Transcripts: Say Bye to Painful Audios!](https://voltchat.com/blog/audio): Skip the hassle of long WhatsApp voice messages! Volt now transcribes and summarizes audios in all languages, so you can read instead of listen. Instantly get key points, auto-translations, and full transcriptions—saving you time and keeping your chats efficient. 🚀
- [Volt’s Smart Lists: WhatsApp, Organized](https://voltchat.com/blog/lists): Tired of a cluttered WhatsApp? 📲 With Volt’s Smart Lists, you can effortlessly organize your chats, group contacts into categories, and switch between conversations with powerful shortcuts. Stay focused, work smarter, and bring order to your messages in seconds.
- [Introducing Send Later for WhatsApp](https://voltchat.com/blog/send-later): Volt Beta 1.2 introduces Send Later, a new feature that lets you schedule your WhatsApp messages in advance. Whether you’re following up with clients or sending birthday wishes, you can now ensure messages go out exactly when you need them—effortlessly and on your schedule.

### Tech

- [Why We Paused the Linear Integration](https://voltchat.com/blog/linear-integration-post-mortem): We designed and started building a Linear integration for Volt, then put it on hold. Here's what the feature was, why we stopped, and what we learned.
- [Volt MCP: Connect WhatsApp Into Any AI](https://voltchat.com/blog/volt-mcp): Volt MCP gives developers a simple API to connect WhatsApp to their Claude or ChatGPT profile.
- [How WhatsApp is evolving privacy from phones to usernames?](https://voltchat.com/blog/how-whatsapp-is-evolving-privacy-from-phones-to-usernames): A look at how WhatsApp has evolved its privacy model over the years, from no encryption to end-to-end security and the shift toward usernames.
- [Adapting WhatsApp Lists to bring Icons to Volt users](https://voltchat.com/blog/adapting-whatsapp-lists-to-bring-icons-to-volt-users): You can now personalize your lists in Volt with emojis. A small UX idea that led us deep into Unicode land. From invisible characters to hidden binary encoding, we found a way to keep lists expressive when active and clean when archived.
- [Escaping dependency hell with the Tarjan Algorithm](https://voltchat.com/blog/dependency-hell): We fought circular dependency chaos with hacks—until Mati found WhatsApp’s hidden fix: the Tarjan Algorithm. Clean, reliable, and fun to build on.
- [From Timestamp Manipulation to Custom Comparators: A Performance Story](https://voltchat.com/blog/custom-comparators): While building chat ordering for WhatsApp chats in Volt, we had to choose between manipulating chat data or implementing a custom comparator. I explain how we moved away from an expensive timestamp-based approach and adopted a comparator that preserved data integrity, simplified restoration, and improved performance by 50x.

### Team

- [What We Built at Volt's First Internal Hackathon](https://voltchat.com/blog/volt-internal-hackathon): The Volt team ran its first internal hackathon. Five projects came out of it: 

- Clippy an AI sidekick for WhatsApp
- WhipIt a Claude Code control center for working on Volt issues across the 3 repos that ship the product.
- WDS a design system preview with WhatsApp native components
- AI Inbox an automatic label system for WhatsApp Chats
- Pepe Roni a E2E Playwright Testing System, 

- [My memories of El Bolsón (first team retreat!)](https://voltchat.com/blog/my-memories-of-el-bolson-first-team-retreat): The Volt team went to El Bolsón, Patagonia, for their first retreat. Trekking, getting lost, and holding meetings by the lake.

### Design

- [No, we don't read your messages. Here's why.](https://voltchat.com/blog/privacy): Volt processes your WhatsApp messages locally on your computer. No Volt server ever sees your chats, no human on our team can access them, and our AI providers operate under zero data retention policies.
- [How We Evolved Our Scheduled WhatsApp Design](https://voltchat.com/blog/how-we-evolved-our-scheduled-whatsapp-design): We share how our scheduled messages feature evolved through 6 iterations, until we finally found the one that just works!
- [Why we are building Volt](https://voltchat.com/blog/why): Introducing Volt, the fastest WhatsApp client designed to boost your productivity. With features like keyboard shortcuts, organized chats, tasks, and message scheduling, Volt aims to make your WhatsApp experience less chaotic and more efficient. Join our beta program and take control of your conversations!
- [How We Manage Product Design](https://voltchat.com/blog/shape-up): At Volt, we shape and define the most important ideas before diving into development. We keep a single source of truth for incoming feedback, then break down each project into tasks and closely track progress. It’s all about staying focused on what matters, communicating effectively, and delivering real value in every release.

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://voltchat.com/legal/privacy): How Volt handles account, WhatsApp, Volt Cloud, and MCP data
- [Terms of Service](https://voltchat.com/legal/terms): Terms governing use of the Volt platform
- [Refund Policy](https://voltchat.com/legal/refund): Refund and cancellation details for Volt subscriptions

## Optional

- [Login](https://voltchat.com/login): User sign-in page
- [Download](https://voltchat.com/download): Download Volt and start for free