🆚 KakaoTalk vs. Telegram
- 📈 Telegram is much more popular than KakaoTalk.
- 🌍 Telegram is more popular in Russia, Iran, and Ukraine.
- 🌍 KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
KakaoTalk
TelegramType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
KakaoTalk is a Korean instant messenger for chats and real-time voice and video calls.
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy.
It provides voice and video calls, unlimited cloud storage for regular chats and media across devices, end-to-end encryption for Secret Chats, supports groups and channels with up to 200,000 members, and allows bots and mini-apps to extend functionality.
Headquarters
Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
kakaocorp.comPricing
Free ✔️
Free version ✔️
Telegram PremiumVaries by country, $2.49-$4.99/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Telegram instant messaging app is 21 times more popular than KakaoTalk.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Telegram is more popular in Russia, Iran, and Ukraine, while KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea.
Russia
Iran
Ukraine
Thailand
Korea
United States
Italy
India
Germany
Belarus
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Telegram is more popular than KakaoTalk in all market segments.
Business
General News
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Finance/Banking
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Discord🗃️ 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.