🆚 Instagram vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 Instagram is much more popular than WhatsApp.
- 🌎 Instagram is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 WhatsApp is more popular in Russia, Thailand, and China.
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About
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social media platform owned by Meta Platforms.
It allows users to post photos and short videos with built-in filters and effects, share disappearing Stories and Reels, send direct messages, and use hashtags and geotags for content discovery.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Chile in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta 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.