🆚 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, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
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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 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.
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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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 9th 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 3,531,690 websites.
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