Zalo
Zalo is a social messaging app for text, voice, and media conversations, with calling and community features for staying in touch.
What is Zalo?
Zalo is a social communication app that helps people send messages, make calls, and share photos, videos, and other content across conversations. It is commonly used for personal chat, group discussions, and keeping in contact with friends, family, classmates, or colleagues. The app supports one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video communication, and sharing from a mobile-first social platform workflow. On Apple platforms, users may also encounter it through the App Store listing tied to VNG ONLINE CO.,LTD. Zalo is especially relevant for users who communicate with Vietnamese contacts or communities, but its messaging features are useful more broadly for everyday communication.
Key features
- Send text messages in one-to-one and group chats
- Make voice and video calls
- Share photos, videos, and other media in conversations
- Use Siri support for app actions on supported Apple devices
- Adjust the interface with accessibility features such as VoiceOver and larger text
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Zalo is legitimate communication software, but like other messaging apps it can access contacts, user content, identifiers, and optional location-related features depending on how you use it. That access is normal for messaging, calling, and sharing features. Use the app only if you want its communication services, review its privacy settings, and be thoughtful about what you share in chats and groups.
Recommendation: Keep Zalo if you actively use it for messaging or calls. If you no longer use the service, you can remove it like other third-party apps, but you may lose local app data or sign-in convenience on that Mac.
Common paths
/Applications/Zalo.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.vng.zalo
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Zalo
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.vng.zalo.plist
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