🆚 Max vs. Viber
- 📈 Viber is five times more popular than Max.
- 🌍 Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Belarus, and Greece.
- 🌍 Max is more popular in Russia.
Max
ViberType
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.
Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and calling application owned by Rakuten.
It supports text, voice, and video messaging, one-on-one and group calls, end-to-end encryption by default, group chats with up to 250 participants, communities with unlimited members, disappearing messages, custom stickers and GIFs, and low-cost calls to phone numbers through Viber Out.
Headquarters
viber.comPricing
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Serbia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Bulgaria in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Rakuten 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 3,524,018 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.