🆚 Messenger vs. Skype
- 📈 Messenger is twice as popular as Skype.
- 🌎 Messenger is more popular in Vietnam, the United States, and Korea.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia.
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About
Messenger, formerly known as 
Facebook Messenger, is an instant messaging service developed by Meta, available on Android, iOS, and web platforms.
It supports one-on-one and group voice and video calls, offers optional end-to-end encryption for secret conversations, allows users to generate stickers with AI using text prompts, and provides business integrations through bots and automated replies.
Skype was a communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of 
Microsoft Teams.
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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
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hungary in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Greece in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Legacy 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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- 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.