Back in March we announced the development of our browser-free, full-screen Desktop App for Windows. Well, the wait is over and the application is ready to download today!
Click here to get Webkinz Desktop App for Windows.
Once the download completes, run the installer and you’ll get the new app with an icon on your desktop. Our app automatically updates itself, so you’ll always have the latest and greatest version – no more downloads needed!
Again, this version is for Windows computers only, but we’re happy to announce that the Mac version is going very well and we expect it to be in release state much sooner than first planned! Stay tuned. Also, as a reminder, this application does require the Flash player to remain on your computer, but if you’re playing Webkinz on your PC now, you already have Flash and nothing needs to change.
Finally we’d like to put out a special thanks to all of the Webkinz players who helped us beta test our Desktop App. With your input we’ve created the best, most secure way to play Webkinz ever!
Have fun and let us know below what you think of the new app! We love reading your feedback.
GANZ
Have questions about the Webkinz Desktop App? Check out our earlier special report answering your questions here.
I cannot get into the Clubhouse with the app this morning. Anyone else having this problem? (It isn’t working on the browser edition either.)
WOW – I REALLY HATE that I can’t minimize it. Other than that, it works great.
I’d love to download it but my parents won’t let me download anything on the family computer and my personal laptop is being held by my sister (hers broke) until the end of the school year
IMPORTANT!!! PERSONAL INFORMATION (Username and Password) REMAIN ON THE WINDOW THAT YOU LOG IN TO PLAY AFTER LOGGING OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNT. THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING. I know that we are not suppose to type in all capital letters but I feel that this is very important and needs to be fixed immediately. Thank you! :}
Please quit after playing. That will clear those fields.
I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE!!! Thank you so much this should have been done years ago. It is so nice not seeing the ads anymore, the continuous changing was always interfering with the game play especially while at the KVA, believe me I do not miss the ads. I love how quickly the game loads. This may not be important to many but I now know that I have adopted 293 pets now. I have not seen the total number of pets for quite awhile. I have only seen this on my account with hundreds of pets. Will we be able to see the total number of pets on all of our accounts again? :}
The only issue that I have noticed is the KinzChat is not turning on today. :(
Please add a windowed mode so that the taskbar remains visible as there are times when I need to access other programs on my computer as well as webkinz.
Being unable to access anything else is very offputting for activities like floaty-clickys as waiting for several minutes with nothing else to do isn’t any fun. Also, I collect foods and have a document on my computer listing what I have, it is very difficult to update this list when I cannot view both it and my webkinz window at the same time.
Could the horizontal lines from the background of ‘Today’s Activities’ be removed? They are very distracting.
When I tried to visit the clubhouse on the desktop app it loaded for ages before presenting me with a blank blue box that only had an ‘ok’ button. It did not load after clicking the ok button.
OK I got it to load . I ran the flash like it days still was WONKY ! I have an AUTOMATIC JAVA UPDATE and Flash but flash is updated in the Windoes 10 it says. MY UPDATE FOR JAVA is “Ninite easy fast takes seconds no messin around deleteing java and installing another updated this updates when you click the APP. ANYWAYS NO MORE TRADEING with your self !! Full screen and I like SPLIT SCREEN . This is like AMAZING WORLD ! OK THE 2000 PTS we really like getting this NEW SCREEN THATS ALL GONE !!! I won’t ge able to buy and send to non Deluxe people cause I will need points to just get my own !! THIS IS SAD :( !! WISH TOKENS load slow . MAP VIDEOS “do not load” . I PLAYED EVERYTHING 2:30 AM CLUBHOUSE WON’T LOAD maybe later . ZUM was there I WISH THEY SHORTENED THE HOUR OF PLAY that ould be so nice if it was faster. I have been sending things to main account for 2 years . SO GLAD I did and sent family stuff also . GONNA REALLY MISS not being to use 2 accounts on 1 laptop. but my laptop is getting old so I may just breakdown and get the 2d and use mail one just for trades saddly this ones 8 yrs old as is. QUESTION THIS IS GONNA sound real dumb ON WINDOWS where do we CLEAR HISTORY ??? THANKS for the help !! I was QUITE IMPRESSED the new APP works great and BRAVO in letting us change over NOW and now have the troubles changing over at the last minute . I HOPE this is the FINAL CHANGE RIGHT ?? It works good once I am in . “QUIT” is what we click to get out of the App I was not sure AT 1ST !!! Last time changing was like HEARDING CATS remember Sally how hard it was . THIS TIME you did your self proud . If you could help me in figuring the “CLEAR HISTORY” I think I will be fine . THANK YOU !!
NO ADS !! Clubhouse it let me watch videos but the 2000 points is gone I WILL miss that . Floatys in a few days DREAD doing 1 acct at a time I will be up for days at a time helping grandbabies !! I guess no rest for the wicked but after 5 or 6 days up all night getting floatys I get headaches bad !!
Hi ~tinygma! I saw that you needed help in clearing your history. On my computer, in the gray bar at the top of my screen, if I click and hold the arrow on the far left (the back arrow), it opens a window with my most recent browsing history. At the bottom of that drop down is an option to ‘Show full history’. Click that and your full history will come up. On the left side I select ‘Clear browsing data’. A settings tab will open with a pop-up window with three choices of what I can clear. Read and choose carefully. Then click the clear data button toward the bottom right. Depending on how full your browsing history is, you may need to give it a moment. I hope this gets posted, and that it is a help to you. Good luck!
Thank you Ganz/Webkinz team! I was very anxious about the first ‘click here’ as everything computer or technical I am always somehow able to mess it up! I only had one bobble. Everything is great!! I am so happy and grateful for the new desktop app! I don’t understand the word ‘windowed’? If anyone wants to explain, I will appreciate it. But, for my eyesight nowadays, the bigger the better! Thank you again and again!!
OK I TRIED it half loaded was full screen but with NO WAY TO EXIT except quit and would not load enough to play.
My “Ninite” JAVA and Flash helped I used it after the flash download . It quickly CHANGED WHATEVER OVER SO THINGS WORKED !! YIPPEE
The app seems to work well after I got past installing the flash player. I have 2 questions. Is there a way to store logins and passwords like I can with a browser? I help my nieces and nephews on their accounts, and I don’t want to type in that info on every account. Also, is there a way to minimize the screen? Sometimes I need to do a quick check on another screen, and I have to exit the entire app to check on something for a couple minutes. For instance, I keep track of who I send daisies to every night on a spreadsheet. In order to see who gets daisies tonight, I would have to know that before I sign in. If I did that for my nieces or nephew, I’d have to exit the entire app after asking for daisies on every account to check the spreadsheet for the next account. That’s a lot of work.