🆚 Discord vs. Messenger
- 📈 Messenger is twice as popular as Discord.
- 🌍 Messenger is more popular in Vietnam, Korea, and Thailand.
- 🌎 Discord is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany.
Discord
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About
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform that allows users to communicate via text chat, voice, and video.
It organizes users into persistent communities called servers containing categorized text and voice channels, supports role-based permissions for access control, includes bots through a public API, allows direct and group messaging, and offers features such as threads and screen sharing.
Messenger, formerly known as 
Facebook Messenger, is an instant messaging service developed by Meta, available on Android, iOS, and web platforms.
It supports one-on-one and group voice and video calls, offers optional end-to-end encryption for secret conversations, allows users to generate stickers with AI using text prompts, and provides business integrations through bots and automated replies.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hungary in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Greece in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Instant Messaging category.
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- 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.