🆚 Line vs. Meetup

Type

Instant messaging app
Social media platform

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.

Meetup is a social media platform for organizing in-person and virtual events and connecting people who share interests, hobbies, or professions.

It supports event discovery by category, keyword, or map, AI-personalized event recommendations, public group ratings and reviews, direct messaging, QR code check-in, and payment collection through Stripe.

Headquarters

Tokyo, Japan
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
For members
Free version ✔️ Ad-supported
Meetup+ $10/month
For organizers
Standard $29.99+/month
PRO $55+/group/month

Categories

Instant Messaging › Rank #3
Social Media › Rank #10
Social Media › Rank #41

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Line instant messaging app is 23 times more popular than Meetup.
Total websites

Market share

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 Meetup is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Japan
Thailand
Taiwan
United States
China
Indonesia
Singapore
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Line is more popular than Meetup in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Health
Internet Services

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
netkeiba.com
#249
dlsite.com
#409
#1,189
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Name
Rank
#10,444
#14,442
#15,609
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See also

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