# crmne/zapfast

> A native WhatsApp desktop client written in Rust with egui, linking to your phone as a companion device without a browser engine. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows with low memory use and local encrypted chat storage.

- Magnitude: 2.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 2,438 total · +7 stars measured 2026-11-03, 11:25–13:54 UTC, ≈ 17 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2026-08-29 · Last push: 2026-11-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/crmne/zapfast · Homepage: https://zapfast.rocks/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/crmne/zapfast

## Useful for

- Link your phone via QR code and read chats on the desktop without opening WhatsApp Web
- Export locally saved chat history as text or a ZIP with downloaded attachments
- Link several WhatsApp numbers and switch between them in one window

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-03 (UTC), 11:25–13:54: 2431 → 2438 stars (+7). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +17 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending Rust today: #11, +34 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 282
- Issues and pull requests: 779
- Watchers: 13
- Average over the last week: 27 per day
- Usual pace: 35 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: v0.21.0 (2026-11-01)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: 55, 113, 60, 27, 24, 22, 21, 28, 38, 37, 46, 36, 23, 23, 13, 20, 36, 28, 44, 41, 28, 25, 14, 24, 20, 15, 20, 50, 43, 7

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Rust today: #11, +34 stars

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/crmne/spotifast.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-03 14:05 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.