🆚 Flattr vs. Skype
- 📈 Skype is much more popular than Flattr.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Flattr is particularly popular in Germany.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Flattr
SkypeType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
Flattr was a micro-donation platform that shut down in November 2023.
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
Malmö, Sweden
Redmond, Washington, United States
Website
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 60 times more popular than Flattr.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Skype is more popular than Flattr in all countries.
Thailand
Russia
China
Vietnam
India
United States
Ukraine
Italy
Germany
United Kingdom
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 among sites focused on business, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising, while Flattr is more commonly used on technical, business forums and technical information sites.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.