🆚 KakaoTalk vs. Viber

📈 Viber is twice as popular as KakaoTalk.
🌍 Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
🌍 KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea, Japan, and Canada.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

KakaoTalk

Viber

Type

Instant messaging app

About

KakaoTalk is a Korean instant messenger for chats and real-time voice and video calls.

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.

Headquarters

Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea

Tokyo, Japan

Website

kakaocorp.com #1,049

viber.com #1,179

Pricing

Free ✔️

Phone callsWorld (unlimited mins)$5.99/month
USA (unlimited mins)$1.99/month
UK (100 mins)$1.99/month
Germany (100 mins)$1.99/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Viber 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.

Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, while KakaoTalk is more popular in Korea, Japan, and Canada.

Ukraine

Korea

Russia

Belarus

Greece

Serbia

Bulgaria

Moldova

Vietnam

United States

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Instant Messaging category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Japan 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.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Viber is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while KakaoTalk is more commonly used on government and military sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

General News

Travel

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Health

Fashion/Beauty

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#3,071

#3,722

#4,077

#4,655

#5,393

Name

Rank

#1,587

#1,715

#2,115

#2,397

#2,537