14 DAY TRIAL // Software engineer Daniel Büchele has created a desktop client for Facebook Messenger, allowing Mac users to chat with their Facebook friends more efficiently and more conveniently.
In the developer’s own words, the main benefit about Goofy (strange name for a Facebook Messenger client!) is that you “never lose your chat window among all the other open browser windows and get notified about new messages.” Büchele adds, “I wrote this App because it helps me to better use Facebook Messenger. So why shouldn't you have it, too?”
Goofy has a built-in notification system as well as Dock badges, just like a traditional instant messaging app. It has all the chat features offered by Facebook’s original web-based tool, including stickers, group chats, search and more.
Büchele admits that developing Goofy wasn’t exactly rocket science. He merely transported the web tool into a standalone binary using some additional JavaScript and CSS to spruce it up a bit.
The app supports Facebook At Work, the social network’s new business-oriented collaboration feature. To instantly connect to your company’s subdomain, simply rename the application from Goofy.app to Goofy-yourcompany.app and it will automatically connect to the corresponding subdomain. You can even run several instances of the app side by side, to do carry out both work-related chats, and personal chats, without them bumping too much into each other.