🆚 Pocket Button vs. Skype
- 📈 Skype is much more popular than Pocket Button.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia.
- 🌍 Pocket Button is more popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Pocket Button
SkypeType
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
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
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Legacy 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.
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
Entertainment
Real Estate
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.