🆚 Mastodon vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Mastodon.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia.
- 🌍 Mastodon is more popular in Japan, Sweden, and Isle of Man.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
WhatsAppType
Social media platform
Instant messaging app
About
Mastodon is a decentralized social network running on independent servers and powered by 
Mastodon open-source software.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Menlo Park, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
WhatsApp Business, US rate per conversation
Free version ✔️1,000 free service conversations/month
Marketing$0.025
Authentication$0.0135
Utility$0.004
Service$0
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The WhatsApp instant messaging app is 20 times more popular than Mastodon.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia, while Mastodon is more popular in Japan, Sweden, and Isle of Man.
Brazil
India
Russia
Spain
Turkey
Indonesia
Italy
Thailand
United States
Argentina
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Sweden in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Belgium in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Ireland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in France in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
WhatsApp is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Mastodon is more commonly used on technical, business forums sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta 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.