To keep data consumption low, the app does not allow voice and video calling, message-based money transfer and the ability to send GIFs. Users will also be able to send links to videos and websites via text. The features offered by the newly-launched app include the ability to send and receive text, photos, emojis, and stickers. Designed to work without a hitch on smartphones that are either old or entry-level, the application requires less processing power as well as memory.īecause it comes without the usual frills, the Messenger Lite app works on slow Internet networks, which is a common problem users face in India. For the icon, the colors of the normal Messenger logo have been reversed - it's a blue bolt on a white background (same as Facebook Lite).According to a Facebook official, the app takes up less than 17 MB, which is around one-tenth the weight of the standard Facebook Messenger app. The Lite app comes in at 10MB and includes all the core Messenger features - text, photo and video messaging are all there, as are stickers. It gives WhatsApp some competition there, albeit within Facebook as the internet giant operates both, and gives consumers other options if they want to message someone who isn't on WhatsApp. A lot of emerging markets use WhatsApp, which takes very little data and is a smaller app than Messenger, but this is a good thing to happen.
Of course, using Messenger Lite doesn't stop anyone from messaging friends - it's completely inter-operable with the regular version of Messenger. As a follow-up, Messenger Lite is now available, meaning phones in countries where data is thin on the ground and people with small amounts of storage can use Messenger as well. Facebook Lite was released early last year, and it's pretty good - it takes up less space than the regular Facebook app and consumes much less data.
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