🆚 Pocket Button vs. Skype

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Legacy technology
Legacy technology

About

The Pocket Button allowed users to save content to Pocket, a social bookmarking service that shut down in 2025.

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.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Phone calls
World (unlimited mins)$16.79/month
USA (unlimited mins)$3.59/month
UK (30 mins)$1.79/month
Germany (100 mins)$3.59/month

Categories

Legacy › Rank #51
Legacy › Rank #15

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Skype legacy technology is 17 times more popular than Pocket Button.
Total websites

Market share

Legacy

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia, while Pocket Button is more popular in Japan.
Thailand
China
Russia
Japan
United States
India
Vietnam
Ukraine
Italy
Cambodia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Skype is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising, while Pocket Button is more commonly used on pornography sites.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Real Estate
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,539
log-lio.com
#11,313
#39,552
#43,129
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Name
Rank
maxwinexch.com
#5,308
mketqua.net
#11,049
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See also

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