🆚 Line vs. Pixiv
- 📈 Line is much more popular than Pixiv.
- 🌍 Line is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Pixiv is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LineType
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.
Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Instant Messaging › Rank #4
Social Media › Rank #10
Social Media › Rank #63
Design Portfolios › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Line instant messaging app is 96 times more popular than Pixiv.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Line is more popular than Pixiv in all countries.
Japan
Thailand
Taiwan
United States
Indonesia
Singapore
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
Vietnam
China
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Design Portfolios category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Design Portfolios category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Social Media category.
- ⬆️ 63rd 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 Pixiv in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Fashion/Beauty
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Internet Services
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.