Jamie– do not nudge (please nudge)
Sam– See you tomorrow.
Alex– brb, making tea ☕
Video
Call
Send file
Activities
Nudge
Wink
Voice clipAutomatic, from your first hello.
Normal chats need no security setup. Keys are remembered on first use; compare numbers or emoji for an optional independent identity check.
Encrypted chats. Encrypted calls.NEWA familiar
A familiar
hello.
Your people. All day long.
With privacy built for today.
The MSN Messenger feeling you missed, with automatic encrypted chat and private one-to-one video and voice calls. A proper ring. A bigger picture. A real hello.
A real Windows app. A little piece of the old internet.
Unsigned beta · Read before installing
Maya has just signed in.
ADL Messenger
You, again.Available Back where we belong. 💙
Encryption Active
Encryption Active
+Find a contact or chat… ⌕↗⚙All friends ⌄Manage lists
⌄ Friends (2/3)
Maya★– this song. on repeat. ♫1
Jamie– do not nudge (please nudge)
Sam– See you tomorrow.
⌄ Family (1/1)
Alex– brb, making tea ☕
› Work (0/2)
A familiar hello.ASIA DESIGN LAB · MESSENGER Maya — ADL Messenger
Mayathis song. on repeat. ♫
Encryption activeSecurity & verify devicesYou’re right where you left off.
Interactive preview · v0.5.14 · Messages stay in this page.
Available for a comebackPersonal messagesSeparate chat windowsNudges. Obviously.That little tray icon
ENCRYPTED VIDEO CALLS · ENCRYPTED VOICE CALLS
See their face.
Hear that familiar voice.
Some catch-ups deserve more than a message.
Click Video or Call and bring your people closer. Your one-to-one voice and video are encrypted between the two calling devices. Incoming calls ring in an ADL popup that stays while the call is waiting.
Automatic encryptionFull-screen video720p capture target
Get Messenger. Make that call. Video adapts to your camera and connection. Echo cancellation and noise reduction are requested. Quality and latency vary; a stable connection and headphones can help.
THAT LITTLE MOMENT. BACK AGAIN.
You’ll know when
it’s your people.
Calls, messages and new friends.
Familiar Windows popups, made for ADL.
A call worth picking up.
An incoming voice or video call rings with its own desktop popup. Answer, decline or silence the ring.
A familiar face says hello.
New friend requests arrive with an ADL chime. Accept your friend, decline, or come back later.
Never miss that little hello.
A new-message popup brings your conversation back with one click. You choose your sound and alert settings.
Desktop alert captures from ADL Messenger 0.5.10, with a fictional contact. Call alerts stay while the invitation is waiting; ordinary message alerts are brief. Alert and sound preferences apply.
THE COMEBACK. WITH SOMETHING NEW.
That familiar hello.
Now end-to-end encrypted.
Encryption starts automatically after sign-in. Your messages and files are encrypted on your PC before upload, with keys shared to enrolled participant devices. No activation switches.
How your conversations are protected A private helloYOUR PCYOUR FRIEND
What the message relay stores•••• •••• •••• ••••Encrypted content. Your device holds the keys.
Encryption active · Encrypted conversation Illustration
Photos and files, protected too.
Attachments are encrypted before upload. Their names and decryption details stay inside the protected message.
Your keys. Your recovery.
Save an encrypted key backup with a separate passphrase. A password reset cannot recover lost message keys.
The current version automatically prepares your device and new or older chats after normal sign-in. First-use trust relies on the authenticated ADL device directory; optional comparison adds independent assurance. Changed known keys are blocked. Earlier plaintext history, game moves, profiles and delivery metadata remain outside this protection. No independent security audit has been completed.
Devices & key backupsIT WAS NEVER JUST A CHAT WINDOW.
It was your people.
In your little corner of the internet.
Miss the contact list, the personal messages and the small green dot? ADL Messenger brings that MSN-era desktop chat feeling to a new, independent service. Just your friends, their status, and a window of your own.
You missed this.
So did we.
So did we.
Looking for MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger today? Meet ADL Messenger
11:48 PM11:49 PMSomeone is writing a message…
THE OLD FEELING. YOUR NEW MESSENGER.
All the little things
you remember.
Classic instant messaging for Windows.
Made our own, by Asia Design Lab.
YOUR PEOPLE. YOUR LISTS.Friends.
Family.
Your kind of people.
Family.
Your kind of people.
Compact status icons.
Private lists that sync to your devices.
01 / PROPER DESKTOP CHATYour chats have
Your chats have
a window of their own.
A contact list you can tuck away. Separate conversations. A familiar icon beside the clock that changes with your status and unread messages.
Say it with a status.
Or a slightly unnecessary nudge.
Contact cards with privacy controls. Your own emoticons, sound-enabled winks and nudges that shake the chat. Even your colours, background and favourite song.
Laptop here. PC there.
Still you.
Sign in on your laptop and PC. Each device prepares encryption automatically for future messages. Use an encrypted key backup to recover earlier protected history.
NEW · YOUR MESSENGER, YOUR LANGUAGE English, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. Choose your language during installation, or change it instantly in Settings. Your people. All day long.
NEW · PASTE A LITTLE MOMENT Screenshot? Photo? Copy it, press Ctrl+V in your chat and preview before sending. Your image travels as an end-to-end encrypted attachment, with a thumbnail for your friend.
NEW · A CONVERSATION WAITING Messages waiting for an offline friend? Send a thoughtful email reminder from their contact menu or chat. After 24 hours away, one reminder per friend’s inbox each day. Their messages stay private, and they can switch reminders off.
Also in the app Encrypted voice clips · Share a contact · Online chimes · Offline messages · Custom backgrounds
A LITTLE MORE YOU. EVERY HELLO.
Old-school charm.
Fresh ways to connect.
Your ADL Messenger.
Private conversations. Personal touches.
A little voice note.
A much bigger smile.
Record up to 15 seconds, listen back, then send. End-to-end encrypted, with playback right inside your chat.
Your card. Your colours.
Your kind of conversation.
Pick who sees your profile and updates, introduce a friend, play a wink or change your chat background. Listening status is yours to switch on.
Your support team.
One familiar hello away.
Add an ADL card to your website with real availability. Visitors open the Windows app or download it, sign in and start a separate encrypted support chat. Finish support when you are done; its history stays in Completed support.
Create your website support widgetOffline messages are queued for contacts with an existing secure device. Website support uses a Windows app and ADL account; it connects to one support account, with one-to-one calls. Support customers are separate from friends.
YOUR STATUS: READY TO COME BACK.
Your people.
Your Windows desktop.
Your Messenger.
That old Messenger feeling. Automatic encrypted chats, files, video and voice calls.
Download for Windowsv0.5.14 · Free beta · 64-bitRead the Terms, Software Licence and Privacy Policy before using ADL Messenger.
A friendly heads-up. ADL Messenger is currently an unsigned Windows beta. Read the release notes before installing. Use the installer for Windows contact links; the portable edition doesn’t register them. One-to-one calls target 720p video with requested echo cancellation and noise reduction. Quality, frame rate and latency depend on camera, microphone, computer and connection. Wider real-device testing continues.
A familiar hello.
A LITTLE BETTER, EVERY HELLO.
Recent releases.
The five newest releases. Download the latest version.
v0.5.14 LATEST BETA
Your people. All day long.
A familiar hello in six languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. Choose your language in setup or change it instantly in Settings.
Release notes & checksum +
- Your people. All day long. Our new tagline welcomes you in the installer, with ADL still proudly made by Asia Design Lab.
- Choose your language when the Windows installer starts. New installations use that choice on first launch.
- Change language at any time under Tools → Messenger options → General → Language, including before signing in.
- Menus, conversations, settings, account and encryption screens, calls, games and desktop alerts use the selected language without restarting Messenger.
- Your messages, display names, custom friend lists, passwords and encryption identities stay unchanged when switching languages.
- Language is a preference for this computer. Existing preferences survive upgrades; portable editions initially follow the Windows language when supported.
- Offline translation catalogs make it possible to add more languages in future versions.
Unsigned Windows beta. Publisher signing remains paused. Encryption has not had an independent security audit.
Windows installer SHA-256
d3e2e3c44163ecd36bcd4e774acc73cd94b59e81b2275b8bd4e013378576ab0eWindows installer ↓Portable edition ↗127 MB · 64-bit
v0.5.12
More room for your people.
Compact classic contact controls, account settings in the menu, and beautifully rounded promotional banners.
Release notes +
- Add friend, contact search, Share my contact and Options now share one compact row, recovering about 55 pixels for the contact list.
- Account & devices moves to Tools and the dedicated settings window. Your Encryption Active indicator remains beside your profile.
- Full-width promotional artwork has smoothly curved corners and a slim sponsor/link strip. Active campaigns rotate automatically with a subtle change-only transition.
- Reduced-motion preferences disable animation. Paused, expired or signed-out campaigns clear immediately, and native link validation still asks before opening a promoted website.
- The website now features the active Admin-managed banners. Draft, paused, scheduled and expired campaigns are excluded.
- Includes automatic encryption, private synced friend lists, clipboard images and existing update popups.
Unsigned Windows beta. Publisher signing remains paused. Encryption has not had an independent security audit.
Release notes only
v0.5.10
Your people. A little closer together.
A compact contact list with coloured ADL status icons and private friend lists that sync between your computers.
Release notes +
- Compact single-line contact rows use small ADL icons: green Available, red Busy, amber Away and grey Offline. Personal messages, listening status, unread badges and favorite stars remain visible.
- Create private lists such as Family, Work and Gaming, rename them and move friends between them. Lists can remain empty while you organise your contacts.
- List membership and collapsed sections sync across your signed-in computers. Search temporarily opens matching lists without changing saved collapse choices.
- Deleting a list moves its friends back to Friends. It does not delete contacts, chats or friendships, and support conversations stay separate.
- Favorite contacts keep their list membership and can be shown with the Favorites filter. Existing groups migrate without changing messages or encryption records.
- Includes encrypted clipboard-image sharing, contextual promotional banners and the existing native update popup.
Unsigned Windows beta. Publisher signing remains paused. Encryption has not had an independent security audit.
Release notes only
v0.5.9
Paste a picture. Discover something new.
Paste clipboard images straight into encrypted chats, with a preview before sending. A small labelled banner introduces other apps and offers from the ADL team.
Release notes +
- Paste a screenshot or copied image into the message box with Ctrl+V, or use Conversation → Paste image from clipboard. Review the image and choose Send image or Cancel.
- Pasted images are normalized to PNG and sent through the existing end-to-end encrypted attachment pipeline. Your unfinished text stays in the message box, and recipients see an inline image thumbnail.
- Clipboard access happens only in response to an explicit paste. Local image previews expire after ten minutes and are cleared on cancellation, chat closure or sign-out. Images are limited to 10 MB and 32 megapixels.
- The lower contact-list banner can show a clearly labelled promotion with an image, short message and website link. The destination is shown before opening, and the normal ADL banner returns when no current campaign is available.
- Promotions are contextual and shared by everyone. Private chats, contacts and country are not used for ad targeting. No advertiser scripts or remote image trackers are loaded.
- The separate private Admin update adds campaign previews, schedules, priorities, publish/pause/archive controls and aggregate view/click counts. Existing automatic encryption, support conversations and synchronized unread tracking remain available.
Unsigned Windows beta. Publisher signing remains paused. Encryption has not had an independent security audit.
Release notes only
v0.5.8
Support, with a proper goodbye.
Website support now has its own conversations, a Finish support action and a completed-chat archive. Read messages stay read across your devices.
Release notes +
- Website support customers stay separate from friends and no longer increase your friend count or receive friendship permissions.
- Finish support removes the conversation from the active list and keeps its encrypted history in Completed support. Finished conversations cannot receive new messages, files or calls until explicitly reopened.
- Reopen support when needed, or send a normal friend request that the other person can accept. Blocking a customer is a separate action.
- Read tracking now follows the server message sequence, including hidden encrypted control events. Focused chats clear their unread badges across devices, and stale refreshes cannot restore an old badge.
- Earlier widget-created support conversations retain their room IDs, messages and encryption records when converted to support sessions. Genuine friendships remain separate.
- Includes automatic encryption-worker recovery, the redesigned Windows installer and encrypted one-to-one voice/video calls.
Unsigned Windows beta. Publisher signing remains pending. Encryption has not had an independent security audit.
Release notes only
Download the latest version for current features and fixes. Older entries are release notes only.
YOU STILL KNOW HOW THIS GOES.
Three steps.
A thousand catch-ups.
- 01
Make yourself at home.
Install the Windows app, choose your Messenger ID and verify your email.
- 02
Find your people.
Copy your contact link or add a friend’s Messenger ID. They approve the request.
- 03
Sign in. Say hello.
Device and chat encryption start automatically. Set your status, send a message or start a private video call. Device comparison is optional.
A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING.
Before you sign in.
Which languages does ADL Messenger support?+
English, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. The Windows installer asks for your language. Change it at any time in Tools → Messenger options → General → Language, without restarting or signing out. Your messages and contact names stay as they are. More languages are planned.
Is ADL Messenger an MSN Messenger alternative?+
Yes. ADL Messenger is an independent MSN Messenger alternative by Asia Design Lab, inspired by the Windows Live Messenger 2009 era. It uses ADL accounts and servers, our own branding and artwork. It doesn’t connect to Microsoft’s retired Messenger network or import old Microsoft contact lists.
Is it a website or a real Windows app?+
It’s a real Windows desktop app, with a contact list, separate conversation windows and a notification-area icon beside the clock. This website is where you download it and find releases.
Can I use the same account on my laptop and PC?+
Yes. Install the latest version on each computer and sign in with the same ID or verified email. Contacts and read status are shared. Encryption starts automatically on each PC for future messages. Use a separate encrypted key backup to restore earlier protected history. Account & devices lets you sign out other computers.
Can I use my old Messenger account?+
You’ll need a new ADL Messenger account. Choose your ID in the Windows app and verify your email. If you’ve already made an ADL account, keep using it; you don’t need to create another account when upgrading.
What happens to my messages and privacy?+
Connections to the ADL service use HTTPS and secure WebSockets. Version 0.4.4 automatically prepares device and conversation encryption after ordinary sign-in, including file attachments. Keys are remembered on first use through the authenticated device directory. Comparing numbers or emoji with your friend is an optional extra identity check. Earlier history, shared game moves and delivery metadata remain visible to the service. Keep a separate encrypted key backup; password reset cannot recover message keys. The encryption integration has not received an independent security audit. Your recovery email is private and isn’t included in your public contact card.
Can I make encrypted video and voice calls?+
Yes. Start a one-to-one internet call with an ADL contact. Voice and video media use WebRTC DTLS-SRTP encryption, and call setup travels inside encrypted messages. Enlarge the video, fill the window or go full screen. Video capture targets 720p at 30 fps; echo cancellation and noise reduction are requested. Actual clarity and delay depend on both computers, devices and networks. These are app-to-app calls, not calls to ordinary telephone numbers.
Does it support conference calls?+
Calls currently connect two people. Group text chat is available; group voice/video conferences are not in this release.
Will Messenger tell me when an update is ready?+
Yes. Messenger checks shortly after launch and every 15 minutes while running. A dedicated ADL update popup appears even when Messenger is in the tray. Download the update or choose Remind me tomorrow; an update banner stays available in Messenger. You choose when to install. Existing 0.4.1–0.4.2 clients receive their update dialog when Messenger is visible or reopened. Install the latest release once to get the new desktop popup.
Why is Windows showing a publisher warning?+
The current beta is unsigned, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. Publisher signing remains on our launch checklist. If you don’t want to run an unsigned beta, wait for a signed release.
A LITTLE SPACE. A NEW DISCOVERY.
Something new.
Worth a hello.
Discover apps and businesses from the Messenger banner. A small introduction, from our corner of the internet to yours.
Want your business here? Let’s talk ↗Advertisements · Managed by the ADL team. Opens the advertiser’s website. No personalisation from your private chats.
Your people.
All day long.
The hello doesn’t stop here.
Meet other Messenger fans, share what you miss and help shape what comes next. Come say hello.
Find your people on Discord.
Join the ADL Messenger community for conversations, ideas, help and a little desktop-chat nostalgia.
Join our Discord server ↗ (opens in a new tab)A familiar face in your feed.
Follow ADL Messenger on Facebook for app news, new features and moments worth bringing back.
Follow us on Facebook ↗ (opens in a new tab)Discord and Facebook open on their own websites. Please keep account details and private chats out of public posts.