🆚 Foursquare vs. Skype
- 📈 Skype is much more popular than Foursquare.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia.
- 🌎 Foursquare is more popular in the United States, Belgium, and Montenegro.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SkypeType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
The Foursquare City Guide was a location-based social networking app that allowed users to discover and review local businesses and attractions. It was discontinued in 2025.
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
New York, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Website
Pricing
Free version ✔️Community user
EnterpriseCustom
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 12 times more popular than Foursquare.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia, while Foursquare is more popular in the United States, Belgium, and Montenegro.
Thailand
China
Russia
United States
India
Vietnam
Ukraine
Italy
Cambodia
United Kingdom
Awards
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Greece in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Vietnam in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Belgium in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in the Czech Republic in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia 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 Foursquare is more commonly used on restaurants sites.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Health
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Microsoft company profile🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.