🆚 Line vs. QQ
- 📈 Line is three times more popular than QQ.
- 🌍 Line is more popular in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan.
- 🌍 QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Cambodia.
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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.
Tencent QQ is a Chinese instant messaging software platform.
It supports text, voice, and video chat, file transfers, and group messaging, allows users to create customizable avatars, integrates social networking features through QQ Zone, and includes additional services such as games, music, and online shopping.
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Market share
Popularity by country
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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.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
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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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.