🆚 Max vs. Signal
- 📈 Max is much more popular than Signal.
- 🌍 Max is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Belize.
- 🌎 Signal is more popular in Germany, Ukraine, and the United States.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
Max is a Russian instant messaging platform integrated into the country's national digital ecosystem.
The platform supports text and voice messaging, group chats, file sharing, and integration with government services through the Gosuslugi portal, and is being developed as a domestic replacement for foreign messaging apps such as Telegram and
WhatsApp.
Signal is an open-source, privacy-focused messaging app for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls.
Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Max instant messaging app is 31 times more popular than Signal.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Max is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Belize, while Signal is more popular in Germany, Ukraine, and the United States.
Russia
Germany
Ukraine
Belarus
United States
Netherlands
Pakistan
United Kingdom
Belize
France
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Max is more popular than Signal in all market segments.
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Business
Education/Reference
General News
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Public Information
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
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 3,827,339 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.