🆚 Line vs. Max
- 📈 Line is much more popular than Max.
- 🌍 Line is more popular in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan.
- 🌍 Max is more popular in Russia and Belarus.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Line
MaxType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
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.
Max is an instant messaging app from Russia, integrated into the country's national IT ecosystem.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Moscow, Russia
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Instant Messaging › Rank #4
Instant Messaging › Rank #14
Social Media › Rank #10
Social Media › Rank #40
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Line instant messaging app is 22 times more popular than Max.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Line is more popular in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan, while Max is more popular in Russia and Belarus.
Japan
Thailand
Taiwan
Russia
United States
Indonesia
Singapore
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
Korea
Awards
- 🥇 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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Line is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and education and reference, while Max is more commonly used on general news and public information sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
General News
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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LY Corporation company profile
VK 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.