🆚 KakaoTalk vs. Max
- 📈 Max is slightly more popular than KakaoTalk.
- 🌍 Max is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Belize.
- 🌎 KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea, Japan, and the United States.
KakaoTalk
MaxType
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.
Max is a Russian instant messaging platform integrated into the country's national digital ecosystem.
The platform supports text and voice messaging, group chats, file sharing, and integration with government services through the Gosuslugi portal, and is being developed as a domestic replacement for foreign messaging apps such as 
Telegram and 
WhatsApp.
Headquarters
kakaocorp.comPricing
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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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
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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.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
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