🆚 KakaoTalk vs. QQ
- 📈 QQ is twice as popular as KakaoTalk.
- 🌎 QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States.
- 🌍 KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea, Japan, and Australia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
KakaoTalk
QQType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
KakaoTalk is a Korean instant messenger for chats and real-time voice and video calls.
Tencent QQ is a Chinese instant messaging software platform.
It supports text, voice, and video chat, file transfers, and group messaging, allows users to create customizable avatars, integrates social networking features through QQ Zone, and includes additional services such as games, music, and online shopping.
Headquarters
Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea
Shenzhen, China
kakaocorp.comPricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The QQ instant messaging app is 2.4 times more popular than KakaoTalk.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States, while KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea, Japan, and Australia.
China
Korea
Hong Kong
United States
Japan
Cambodia
Netherlands
Singapore
Taiwan
Philippines
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
QQ is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and education and reference, while KakaoTalk is more commonly used on online shopping, general news, and fashion and beauty sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Forum/Bulletin Boards
General News
Fashion/Beauty
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tencent 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.