🆚 Messenger vs. Snapchat
- 📈 Messenger is much more popular than Snapchat.
- 🌎 Messenger is more popular in Vietnam, the United States, and Korea.
- 🌍 Snapchat is more popular in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
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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.
Snapchat is a messaging and social networking app that lets users send photos and videos ("Snaps") that disappear after being viewed by default.
It supports temporary Snaps, 24-hour Stories, augmented reality filters and lenses, a Snap Map for location sharing, private chats with voice and video calls, and a Memories archive with optional PIN protection.
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Popularity by country
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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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Kuwait in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Qatar in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Arab Emirates 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.