🆚 ASKfm vs. Skype
- 📈 Skype is much more popular than ASKfm.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ ASKfm is particularly popular in Vietnam.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ASKfm
SkypeType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
ASKfm was a question and answer social networking site that was shut down at the end of 2024.
Skype was a communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of 
Microsoft Teams.
Headquarters
Riga, Latvia
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ + $$$
Phone calls
World (unlimited mins) $16.79/month
USA (unlimited mins) $3.59/month
UK (30 mins) $1.79/month
Germany (100 mins) $3.59/month
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Skype legacy technology is 195 times more popular than ASKfm.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Skype is more popular than ASKfm in all countries.
Thailand
Russia
China
Vietnam
India
United States
Ukraine
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Belarus in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Ukraine in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Skype is more popular than ASKfm in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Games
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.