🆚 Line vs. Steam
- 📈 Line is much more popular than Steam.
- 🌍 Line is more popular in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan.
- 🌎 Steam is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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.
Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free version ❌
Steam Direct Product Submission Fee$100
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Line instant messaging app is 11 times more popular than Steam.
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 Steam is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Japan
Thailand
Taiwan
United States
Indonesia
Germany
Singapore
United Kingdom
France
Poland
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.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Poland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Finland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Japan in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Sweden in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Line is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and education and reference, while Steam is more commonly used on games sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Games
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
WhatsApp
Telegram
WeChat
KakaoTalk
Max
Facebook
Instagram
X
LinkedIn
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.