🆚 Messenger vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is five times more popular than Messenger.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia.
- 🌍 Messenger is more popular in Vietnam, Korea, and Poland.
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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.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
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Popularity
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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 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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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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.