🆚 Max vs. Messenger
- 📈 Messenger is much more popular than Max.
- 🌎 Messenger is more popular in Vietnam, the United States, and Korea.
- 🌍 Max is more popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Max
MessengerType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
Max is an instant messaging app from Russia, integrated into the country's national IT ecosystem.
Messenger, formerly known as Facebook Messenger, is an instant messaging service developed by Meta, available on Android, iOS, and web platforms.
It supports one-on-one and group voice and video calls, offers optional end-to-end encryption for secret conversations, allows users to generate stickers with AI using text prompts, and provides business integrations through bots and automated replies.
Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Menlo Park, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Messenger instant messaging app is 23 times more popular than Max.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Messenger is more popular in Vietnam, the United States, and Korea, while Max is more popular in Russia.
Vietnam
United States
Korea
Thailand
Russia
Poland
Taiwan
Ukraine
Australia
United Kingdom
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hungary in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Greece in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Messenger is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Max is more commonly used on general news, public information, and portal sites sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
General News
Health
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.