Rakuten Viber
Rakuten Viber is a desktop messaging and calling app for Mac that syncs with your mobile Viber account for chats, voice calls, and video calls.
What is Rakuten Viber?
Rakuten Viber is a social communication app for Mac that helps people send messages, make voice and video calls, and stay in touch across personal and group conversations. The desktop app is designed to work alongside Viber on a mobile phone, with chats synced between devices after setup. Common uses include one-to-one messaging, group chats, voice calls, video calls, and sharing photos, videos, stickers, and other conversation content from a larger screen. Viber also supports communities and other social messaging features that extend beyond simple text chat. On Mac, it fits users who want to continue mobile conversations at their desk without switching constantly between phone and computer. The app is published by Viber Media SARL.
Key features
- Send and receive one-to-one and group messages
- Make voice and video calls from your Mac
- Sync chats with your mobile Viber account
- Share photos, videos, and other conversation content
- Join and participate in group chats and communities
- Use stickers, GIFs, and expressive chat tools
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This is a legitimate messaging app, and its network access, notifications, camera access, microphone access, and contact-related permissions are consistent with calling and messaging features. Viber for Desktop depends on an active Viber account on a mobile phone for activation and syncing. As with any communication app, review the conversations and contacts connected to the account, and grant camera or microphone access only if you want to use calling features on this Mac.
Recommendation: Keep Rakuten Viber if you use Viber for messaging or calls on this Mac, especially if you want your desktop and phone conversations to stay in sync. If you no longer use the service, removing the app is reasonable and will stop desktop notifications, calls, and synced chat access on this device.
Common paths
/Applications/Viber.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.viber.osx
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/ViberPC
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.viber.osx.plist
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