🆚 KakaoTalk vs. Line
- 📈 Line is much more popular than KakaoTalk.
- 🌍 Line is more popular in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan.
- 🌍 KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea.
KakaoTalkType
About
KakaoTalk is a Korean messaging platform widely considered a super app, combining private and group chats, voice and video calls, communities, and other digital services.
It provides Open Chat for topic-based communities, voice call recording, a digital wallet for certificates and cards, and KakaoTalk Channels for business messaging, consultations, reservations, orders, and payments.
Line is a Japanese instant messaging and social networking app often described as a super-app because it integrates services such as a digital wallet, news feed, digital comics, media streaming, and shopping.
It supports voice and video calls, group chats with up to 500 participants, a Timeline social feed, 
Line Pay payments, hidden chats with self-deleting messages, and mini-apps.
Headquarters
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Thailand in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
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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.
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