🆚 Max vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Max.
- 🌍 WhatsApp is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Max is particularly popular in Russia.
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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.
WhatsApp is a cross-platform instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta that enables private messaging, media sharing, and internet-based voice and video communication.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, and make voice and video calls including group calls. It also supports end-to-end encryption and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Russia 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.
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- 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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