🆚 QQ vs. Signal
- 📈 QQ is much more popular than Signal.
- 🌎 QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States.
- 🌍 Signal is more popular in Germany, Ukraine, and Italy.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
QQType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
Tencent QQ is a Chinese instant messaging software platform.
It supports text, voice, and video chat, file transfers, and group messaging, allows users to create customizable avatars, integrates social networking features through QQ Zone, and includes additional services such as games, music, and online shopping.
Signal is an open-source, privacy-focused messaging app for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls.
Headquarters
Shenzhen, China
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The QQ instant messaging app is 73 times more popular than Signal.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States, while Signal is more popular in Germany, Ukraine, and Italy.
China
Hong Kong
United States
Cambodia
Netherlands
Germany
Philippines
Taiwan
Singapore
Ukraine
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
QQ is more popular than Signal in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Portal Sites
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tencent company profile🗃️ About This Data
- 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.