🆚 Max vs. Zen
- 📈 Zen is noticeably more popular than Max.
- 🌍 Zen is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Max is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
MaxType
Instant messaging app
Social media platform
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.
Zen is a Russian blogging and media publishing platform.
Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Moscow, Russia
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Zen social media platform is 1.4 times more popular than Max.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Zen is more popular than Max in all countries.
Russia
Belarus
Kazakhstan
Germany
Netherlands
France
Ukraine
Canada
Lithuania
United States
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Belarus in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Zen is more popular among sites focused on general news, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Max is more commonly used on education and reference, health, and public information sites.
General News
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Education/Reference
Health
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Public Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Yandex 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.