A real local API
Documented REST on localhost:3456, with scoped API keys and an OpenAPI spec.
Self-hosted WhatsApp automation
Automate WhatsApp from your machine. Not someone else's cloud.
A self-hosted automation server with the strongest anti-ban engine in its class and a full local API. Run it as a desktop app or headless on your own VPS. No Meta approval, no per-message fees — nothing leaves your machine.
Free forever · No credit card · 1 account, 200 messages/day
LIVE RISK SCORE
per min
9 / 30
per hour
42 / 100
per day
288 / 500
Sending
● Warmed
Jitter ±15%
Win · macOS · Linux
100% local — your data stays on your machine
No Meta approval
8-layer anti-ban
Honest about risk
Ownership
Stop renting access to your own WhatsApp.
Cloud WhatsApp tools put your customers’ conversations on servers you don’t control, then charge you by the message to talk to your own contacts. SocialMate flips that. It runs as a server on your computer — the database, the sessions, the media, all of it lives in a folder you own, encrypted at rest. There’s no “us” in the middle. Nothing to read, sell, or leak, because your data never leaves the machine.
Cloud tools
$0.005–0.08 per message
Your messages leave your device for a server you don’t control — and you pay to talk to your own contacts.
SocialMate
$0 per message · one flat license
Everything stays inside your machine — local SQLite, encrypted at rest, AES-256.
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Your data, full stop. Local SQLite, AES-256 at rest. No cloud storage, no sub-processor, no data-processing agreement to sign.
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No per-message meter. A flat license instead of $0.005–0.08 every time you say “your order shipped.”
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No gatekeeper. Scan a QR code and send. No Facebook Business verification, no WABA, no approval queue.
Anti-ban by design
The strongest anti-ban engine in its class.
Most tools ship a random delay and call it “anti-ban.” SocialMate runs every single message through an 8-layer pipeline — and shows you the risk in a live cockpit, so you’re never flying blind.
- 1 Rate limiter Human-speed caps per minute, hour, and day, with burst control.
- 2 Multi-stage delays Every send waits through a think pause, length-scaled typing, and a minimum gap — each ±randomized, so nothing is robotic. Pick Safe, Balanced, or Fast per account.
- 3 Session warmer New numbers ramp up gradually over ~72 hours, not 0-to-flood.
- 4 Risk calculator A live 8-factor score — including cold-outreach detection — that gradually slows sends as risk rises, then eases back automatically as risk recovers.
- 5 Duplicate-content guard Blocks sending the same text or image to many contacts — the #1 ban trigger. On by default; override only in High-Volume Mode.
- 6 Pause manager Global and per-account pauses, quiet hours, and automatic cooling that lifts itself the moment your risk recovers.
- 7 Real typing & read receipts Sends a genuine “typing…” (or “recording…” for voice notes) scaled to the message, and reads a chat before replying — recipients see a person, not a bot.
- 8 Permanent device fingerprints Each account gets one real, unique device identity that never changes.
And it’s all visible: a radial risk gauge, live rate meters, 8 factor bars, and a “Pause all sends” panic button one click away in your system tray.
No tool is 100% ban-proof — anyone who promises that is lying to you. SocialMate’s job is to make your account the safest it can be, and to show you exactly where it stands.
Native residential IP
Same network as your phone. Not a datacenter in another country.
A WhatsApp linked device connects straight to WhatsApp’s servers, so your connection’s IP is visible to WhatsApp. Because SocialMate runs on your own computer — ideally the same home network as the phone that owns the account — that IP is an ordinary residential connection: the same network picture WhatsApp already associates with your number. That’s structurally different from a shared datacenter IP fanning out messages from another country.
Every other tool sells you a residential proxy to look like a real user. You don’t need one — on your own machine, you already are the residential user.
Cloud tools
- Datacenter IP
- Known hosting ranges
- Higher detection risk
SocialMate on your machine
- Your residential IP
- Same as your phone
- Lower detection risk
Running headless on a VPS uses a datacenter IP instead — so for a safety-critical number, keep it on the desktop app at home, or route the VPS account through your own residential/mobile proxy (Pro). No tool can guarantee against account bans; SocialMate reduces risk, it does not eliminate it.
The whole app
One window. The entire operation.
Accounts, anti-ban, queue, API and archive — one local app, no tabs to juggle. Scroll to take the tour.
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One command center
Every connected number, its health and your live risk score the moment you open the app.
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See your risk, live
An 8-layer engine scores every send onto a real-time gauge — and a panic button pauses everything in one click.
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Send at scale, safely
Schedule, batch and send. Rate-limited sends queue and auto-retry instead of failing.
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A real API on localhost
REST + OpenAPI + signed webhooks with scoped keys — wire SocialMate into any stack.
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Everything, searchable
Full message history and media, full-text searchable on Pro, stored locally on your machine.
Developer platform
A real API that lives on your machine.
REST + OpenAPI, HMAC-signed webhooks, and a one-click public URL — all on localhost, no cloud in the middle.
35 webhooks
HMAC-signed, auto-retried, with delivery logs.
9 free · all 35 on Pro
Built-in Cloudflare Tunnel
One click for a public URL. No hosting, no ngrok.
Quick URL free · named URL on Pro
AI agents
Give your own AI a WhatsApp — in 10 answers.
SocialMate is the hands and the memory. Your model — in n8n, in Claude, anywhere — is the brain.
Agent Studio Free
A 10-step wizard turns a few answers about your business into a production system prompt, a ready-to-paste n8n workflow and a Claude/MCP config. No AI writes it — it fills in a hand-authored template, so it is instant, offline and identical every time.
n8n node + MCP server
Every WhatsApp operation is exposed as a tool your agent can call — natively in n8n, or over MCP in Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Same anti-ban gates; an agent can never bypass a limit.
Agent Memory Pro
Hand the agent the whole thread in one call, and let it save what it learns — a name, a preference, what a photo said. SocialMate stores what YOUR AI learned; it never generates it.
On Free the generated prompt says so, plainly: “you have no memory”.
Automation at scale
Send like a team — without the ban risk.
Queue, schedule and send across unlimited numbers, each with its own anti-ban shield watching every send.
Smart queue & scheduling Pro
Queue, batch, and schedule; rate-limited sends auto-retry instead of failing.
Multi-account Pro
One number free, unlimited on Pro — each with its own anti-ban shield.
High-Volume Mode Pro
Scale to up to 5,000 messages/day per account after 72h of warming — 25× Free, and the live risk meter watches every send.
Your data, your machine
Everything stays local — and searchable.
Full history, media and stats live in a folder you own, encrypted at rest. Nothing leaves the machine.
Local archive + search Pro
Every message, full-text searchable, on your machine. Messages are stored on every tier; the in-app archive and search are Pro.
Media vault
Auto-download, view, and prune images, video, docs, and voice notes.
Statistics cockpit
Activity heatmaps, top contacts, type breakdowns.
For developers
A WhatsApp API that lives on your machine.
No WABA. No approval. No per-message bill. Flip on the API server, create a key, and you’ve got a documented REST endpoint on localhost:3456 — with an OpenAPI spec, HMAC-signed webhooks, and a one-click Cloudflare Tunnel when you need the outside world to reach in.
- OpenAPI out of the box — /docs/openapi.json. Generate a client in any language.
- Webhooks for everything — 35 events, signed and retried, with delivery logs.
- Plugs into your stack — A native n8n node, plus Make, cron, or 20 lines of your own code over the local API.
$
curl -X POST http://localhost:3456/v1/accounts/$ID/messages \
-H "x-api-key: $KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{ "chatId": "15551234567", "text": "Your order #1024 shipped 📦" }'{
"data": {
"sent": true,
"messageId": "3EB0…",
"chatId": "15551234567",
"timestamp": 1717245600000,
"status": "sent"
}
}
Native n8n node
A native n8n node — and every operation is an AI-agent tool.
Install n8n-nodes-socialmate and automate WhatsApp visually — typed actions, a trigger that registers its own webhook, and account dropdowns scoped to your key. No hand-wired HTTP Request nodes, no secrets to juggle.
- AI agents with real memory. One Get AI Context call returns the whole conversation, role-mapped and token-windowed — drop the flaky n8n memory node.
- Anti-ban on every send. Rate limits, jitter and warming apply through the node too — a runaway workflow can’t burn your number.
- Self-hosted, both ends. n8n talks to your local server — no WABA, no per-message bill, no third party in the middle.
Automation · Pro Pro
Set it once. Let the queue do the rest.
Schedule messages for later, group them into batches, and send them to contacts who have opted in — all throttled by the anti-ban engine so you stay safe. Hit a rate limit or a risk pause? Pro’s smart queue holds the message and sends it automatically as soon as it is safe again, instead of throwing an error and dropping it.
- Scheduled sends — “deliver this at 9 a.m. tomorrow.”
- Scheduled batches — queue personalised sends to opted-in contacts without hammering the API by hand.
- Priority ordering — urgent messages like OTPs and confirmations jump ahead of routine queued sends.
- Auto-retry & auto-resume — blocked sends queue and resend themselves once risk recovers.
For messaging contacts who have consented to hear from you. You are responsible for compliance with applicable anti-spam and data-protection laws.
Order #1024 — shipping update
09:00
Scheduled
Sending…
Sent ✓
Weekly digest — 312 contacts
10:30
Scheduled
Sending…
Sent ✓
Appointment reminder — A. Khan
14:15
Scheduled
Sending…
Sent ✓
Invoice #88 — PDF
17:45
Scheduled
Sending…
Sent ✓
Every conversation, searchable — and only on your machine.
SocialMate keeps a full local archive of your messages and media, with instant full-text search. Find what a contact said three months ago in milliseconds. Auto-download and auto-prune media so the archive stays useful and bounded. Nothing syncs to a cloud, because there isn’t one. Full history and search are part of Pro; Free runs as a live feed.
Acme Corp
Here’s the invoice PDF for order #1024 —
Mar 14
A. Khan
Can you resend the invoice from last month?
Feb 02
Studio Nine
Thanks! The invoice looks correct.
Jan 19
Bright Labs
Lunch on Friday?
Jan 06
From download to first message in under a minute.
1
Install
Download for Windows, macOS, or Linux. It auto-updates from here on.
2
Scan the QR
Link your WhatsApp the same way you link a laptop. No verification, no forms.
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You’re live
Send, schedule, or wire up the API. The anti-ban engine is already protecting you.
Why teams pick SocialMate over the cloud.
| Cloud WhatsApp tools | Official Cloud API | SocialMate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | Their servers | Meta’s servers | Your machine |
| Setup time | Minutes (but they hold your data) | Days (verification + WABA) | Minutes (QR scan) |
| Meta business approval | Sometimes | Required | Not needed |
| Cost model | Per seat / per message | Per conversation | Flat license |
| Anti-ban protection | Basic or none | N/A | 8-layer engine + live risk cockpit |
| Real developer API | Rarely | Heavyweight | Local REST + webhooks + OpenAPI + tunnel |
| Accounts | Limited / per-seat | Per WABA | Unlimited (Pro) |
Same power. None of the rent. All of the ownership.
Free is generous. Pro is unrestricted.
Start free, forever — no credit card. Upgrade only when you outgrow it. One license includes one device — add seats for more — and no per-message meter ever.
Free
$0 forever
Everything a solo number needs.
- 1 WhatsApp account
- 200 messages / day
- Full 8-layer anti-ban engine
- HTTP API — read + text send
- Quick Cloudflare tunnel
- 2 webhook endpoints (9 events)
No credit card. No trial clock.
Pro
$8.25 / month
Billed $99/year — save $21 (≈2 months free). Launch deal: 2nd year free.
$10 / month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
- Unlimited WhatsApp accounts
- Up to 5,000 messages / day per account — 25× Free
- Anti-ban engine + High-Volume Mode
- Full API — media, groups, smart queue
- Runs 24/7 unattended — auto-start + auto-reconnect
- Message history + AI-context API — give your automations memory
- Scheduling & batch queueing
- Named tunnel · unlimited webhooks (35 events)
- AI — coming soon included with Pro when it ships
Renews yearly · cancel anytime · or try Pro free for 7 days in the app — no card.
Annual billing saves 17% · or try Pro free for 7 days in the app — no card.
We’ll tell you the truth about ban risk.
SocialMate is an independent application. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to WhatsApp LLC or Meta Platforms, Inc. It’s a personal messaging tool for your own conversations — not a spam or broadcast platform: there’s no instant blast, every message is metered individually, identical broadcasts are blocked by default, and bulk sending is off unless you deliberately turn it on. Automating WhatsApp may still violate its Terms of Service, and no tool — including this one — is 100% ban-proof. That’s exactly why we built the strongest anti-ban engine we could, gave you a live risk cockpit, and recommend you don’t automate a number you can’t afford to lose. You use SocialMate at your own discretion and responsibility. We think that honesty is worth more than a fake guarantee.
Read the full disclaimer →Own your WhatsApp automation.
Free forever. Runs on your machine. Anti-ban from the first message.
No card · No Meta approval · Win · macOS · Linux
By downloading, you agree to the Terms of Use and Risk Disclaimer. Automating WhatsApp may violate its Terms of Service; use at your own discretion.