🆚 Line vs. Meetup
- 📈 Line is much more popular than Meetup.
- 🌍 Line is more popular in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan.
- 🌎 Meetup is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
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 activities and meeting people in your local area.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
New York, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Line instant messaging app is 19 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, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Japan
Thailand
Taiwan
United States
Indonesia
Singapore
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Canada
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.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Switzerland in the Social Media category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in the Netherlands in the Social Media category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Poland in the Social Media category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
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
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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LY Corporation 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.