Before Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status, Snapchat was the only solution if you wanted to securely send disappearing images and videos to someone else. Nine years after its founding, the platform is still used regularly by teens and young adults, and currently has around 240 million daily active users worldwide.

Like every social media platform, Snapchat is actively used on iOS and Android devices, but did you know that you can use it on your Mac as well? In the following post, we will discuss how to install Snapchat on your Mac and what you should pay attention to before doing so. Let’s get started.

No. Snapchat is not officially available for Mac devices and is therefore not available for download from the Mac App Store. And if you've somehow found your way to this post, that might be exactly why. At the moment, Snapchat is only available as an app on iOS and Android in their respective app stores.

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