🆚 Max vs. QQ
- 📈 QQ is much more popular than Max.
- 🌎 QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States.
- 🌍 Max is more popular in Russia and Belarus.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
Max is an instant messaging app from Russia, integrated into the country's national IT ecosystem.
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.
Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Shenzhen, China
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Instant Messaging › Rank #14
Instant Messaging › Rank #7
Social Media › Rank #40
Social Media › Rank #20
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The QQ instant messaging app is 8 times more popular than Max.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States, while Max is more popular in Russia and Belarus.
China
Russia
Hong Kong
United States
Cambodia
Netherlands
Taiwan
Philippines
Singapore
South Africa
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Russia in the Social Media 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
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
QQ is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and blogs and wiki, while Max is more commonly used on education and reference, general news, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Business
Education/Reference
General News
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Portal Sites
Online Shopping
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.