🆚 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 the United Kingdom.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ 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 56 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 the United Kingdom.
China
Hong Kong
United States
Cambodia
Netherlands
Germany
Ukraine
Taiwan
Philippines
Singapore
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Hong Kong in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
QQ is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and blogs and wiki, while Signal is more commonly used on personal pages sites.
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Games
Portal Sites
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 3,653,460 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.