Beeper: Every Chat in One App

What Beeper is and who it suits

Beeper is a messaging app that pulls conversations from other chat services into one inbox, so you do not need a separate app for each. It is aimed at people who message across several networks at once, such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Slack, and want their contacts in one place.

The listing says you can connect up to five accounts for free. Beyond the basic setup, everything below works the way the listing describes it, and each connected service keeps its own account.

Connecting chat apps and multiple accounts

Beeper supports up to 15 chat services, named in the listing as WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Google Chat, Google Messages, Google Voice, Line, LinkedIn, Signal, Slack, Telegram, Tumblr, Viber and X (Twitter). You can connect more than one account for the same service, for example a personal and a business WhatsApp, and see both in the same inbox.

Searching messages across every chat app

Search runs across all connected services at once, rather than inside one app at a time. Results can be narrowed by person, by app, or by content type: images, video, links and files. That makes it possible to find a shared photo or a link sent months ago without opening each service.

Organizing and quieting conversations

Chats from different apps with the same person can be merged into one conversation. Labels such as friends, work and family group conversations, and custom notification settings are there to cut down on interruptions. The listing describes the goal as a single inbox instead of one inbox per app.

Using it on phone, tablet, computer and foldable

Beeper runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Linux and Chromebook, and the listing says everything stays in sync across them. A reply started on a computer can be finished later on a phone. On foldables and tablets the layout shows the chat list and the open conversation side by side.