diff --git a/net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin/Manifest b/net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin/Manifest
index 797f52ec5c1b..b94dea916b77 100644
--- a/net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin/Manifest
+++ b/net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 DIST whatsapp-desktop-bin-amd64-0.5.2.deb 79421814 BLAKE2B db9a2c29b1fc02a265f42d87c3582917bdbbeb99debf09a0e4ba97446b962483f6b6c06f36c1bbae826142085f9445b895f16c98e1f1d847f8730cd81889ace8 SHA512 4b5fecfeea2eebeadebacc96bcb217fe030f23a37b7979f3ea2444f5f7bccada3d126512853ad431b997c7b46ca8d86e396143c8dd36ffdc6a0beb542b77b41e
+DIST whatsapp-desktop-bin-amd64-0.5.3.deb 78887644 BLAKE2B 00395ada7c540abecaff4b3dcea806a3d12127367182ec4bdcafcbbf6e9213839650ea930faaa6acb2d022939b3027d49efe3b067204db3d663e84dbb39b2b4a SHA512 2ccd0570e67c5f8f02d8958a555a41944adc5d5f3d4ef566db6ecc104bac814a965fd90670812b01ebd165131fb180e19815e4849958b8981da0ca98b9d64d6b
 DIST whatsapp-desktop-bin-x86-0.5.2.deb 68963072 BLAKE2B fb03f73e489369a5911cc5bf44595227cdc6de7a3c08a89dae8077c940a8a59b99829fc59885f276efa4829e43e94ad2ad5abd8373f673461753d07500f3f327 SHA512 f388a7db11b84de6283501057a28b42aaa4834582ed6e389c8d0ffff20146f890842e266cca40cd2ac71c4eae6d9f43eb2a794c5d4db4f1b435a93fcf7c25b83
+DIST whatsapp-desktop-bin-x86-0.5.3.deb 68521752 BLAKE2B 56f471948536aff101c2433ef058bbe6a7f5fd4f7b5277c541e7558354cd7ae41cf802042eb8b7378c0ea3a95302e01145f390e1ecccdf4b0b64c725d707ea9c SHA512 215d6d524d87090c7bff2c5dfb93ee70a2aa34824e4de80b7356840578d1431e5d7c8a4953b594803ab8ac83adf15a36fd59d01295c62f6bd6c892299cfab112
diff --git a/net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin/whatsapp-desktop-bin-0.5.3.ebuild b/net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin/whatsapp-desktop-bin-0.5.3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aab4ed5ad97b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-im/whatsapp-desktop-bin/whatsapp-desktop-bin-0.5.3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+# Copyright 2019-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+CHROMIUM_LANGS="
+	am ar bg bn ca cs da de el en-GB en-US es es-419 et fa fi fil fr gu he hi
+	hr hu id it ja kn ko lt lv ml mr ms nb nl pl pt-BR pt-PT ro ru sk sl sr sv
+	sw ta te th tr uk vi zh-CN zh-TW
+"
+
+inherit chromium-2 desktop unpacker xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="Unofficial electron-based wrapper around WhatsApp Web"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/oOthkOo/whatsapp-desktop"
+SRC_URI="
+	amd64? ( https://github.com/oOthkOo/whatsapp-desktop/releases/download/v${PV}/whatsapp-linux-x64.deb -> ${PN}-amd64-${PV}.deb )
+	x86? ( https://github.com/oOthkOo/whatsapp-desktop/releases/download/v${PV}/whatsapp-linux-ia32.deb -> ${PN}-x86-${PV}.deb )
+"
+S="${WORKDIR}"
+
+# Electron bundles a bunch of things
+LICENSE="
+	MIT BSD BSD-2 BSD-4 AFL-2.1 Apache-2.0 Ms-PL GPL-2 GPL-3 LGPL-2.1 APSL-2
+	unRAR OFL-1.1 CC-BY-SA-3.0 MPL-2.0 android public-domain all-rights-reserved
+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="-* ~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RESTRICT="bindist mirror"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=app-accessibility/at-spi2-core-2.46.0:2
+	dev-libs/expat
+	dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator
+	dev-libs/nspr
+	dev-libs/nss
+	media-fonts/noto-emoji
+	media-libs/alsa-lib
+	media-libs/mesa
+	net-print/cups
+	sys-libs/glibc
+	x11-libs/cairo
+	x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3
+	x11-libs/libdrm
+	x11-libs/libnotify
+	x11-libs/libxcb
+	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
+	x11-libs/libX11
+	x11-libs/libXcomposite
+	x11-libs/libXcursor
+	x11-libs/libXdamage
+	x11-libs/libXext
+	x11-libs/libXfixes
+	x11-libs/libXi
+	x11-libs/libXrandr
+	x11-libs/libXrender
+	x11-libs/libXtst
+	x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
+	x11-libs/pango
+"
+
+QA_PREBUILT="opt/whatsapp-desktop/*"
+
+pkg_pretend() {
+	chromium_suid_sandbox_check_kernel_config
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	# cleanup languages
+	pushd "opt/whatsapp-desktop/locales" || die
+	chromium_remove_language_paks
+	popd || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	chromium_suid_sandbox_check_kernel_config
+	default
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	for size in {64,128}; do
+		doicon -s ${size} "usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/whatsapp.png"
+	done
+
+	domenu usr/share/applications/whatsapp.desktop
+
+	local DESTDIR="/opt/whatsapp-desktop"
+	dosym "../../usr/lib64/libayatana-appindicator3.so" "${DESTDIR}/libappindicator3.so"
+
+	pushd "opt/whatsapp-desktop" || die
+
+	exeinto "${DESTDIR}"
+	doexe chrome-sandbox WhatsApp *.so*
+
+	exeinto "${DESTDIR}/swiftshader"
+	doexe swiftshader/*.so*
+
+	insinto "${DESTDIR}"
+	doins *.pak *.bin *.json *.dat
+	insopts -m0755
+	doins -r locales resources
+
+	# Chrome-sandbox requires the setuid bit to be specifically set.
+	# see https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/17972
+	fperms 4755 "${DESTDIR}"/chrome-sandbox
+
+	dosym "${DESTDIR}"/WhatsApp /opt/bin/WhatsApp
+	popd || die
+}