🆚 IRC vs. Viber
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Viber is much more popular than IRC.
- 🌍 Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
- 🌍 IRC is more popular in France, Canada, and Switzerland.
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About
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others.
Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and calling application owned by Rakuten.
It supports text, voice, and video messaging, one-on-one and group calls, end-to-end encryption by default, group chats with up to 250 participants, communities with unlimited members, disappearing messages, custom stickers and GIFs, and low-cost calls to phone numbers through Viber Out.
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Awards
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Serbia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Bulgaria in the Instant Messaging category.
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