🆚 QQ vs. Viber

📈 Viber is noticeably more popular than QQ.
🌍 Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
🌍 QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Cambodia.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Viber

Type

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.

Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and calling application owned by Rakuten.

It supports text, voice, and video messaging, one-on-one and group calls, end-to-end encryption by default, group chats with up to 250 participants, communities with unlimited members, disappearing messages, custom stickers and GIFs, and low-cost calls to phone numbers through Viber Out.

Headquarters

Shenzhen, China

Tokyo, Japan

Website

im.qq.com

viber.com #1,179

Pricing

Free ✔️

Free ✔️ + $$$

Phone calls World (unlimited mins) $5.99/month
USA (unlimited mins) $1.99/month
UK (100 mins) $1.99/month
Germany (100 mins) $1.99/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Viber instant messaging app is 1.9 times more popular than QQ.

Total websites

Market share

Instant Messaging

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, while QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Cambodia.

Ukraine

China

Russia

Belarus

Hong Kong

Bulgaria

Greece

Serbia

Moldova

Vietnam

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
🥉 Third 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.

🥇 Most popular in Bulgaria in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Instant Messaging category.
🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
🥈 Second most popular in Serbia in the Instant Messaging category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Viber is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, online shopping, and Internet services, while QQ is more commonly used on business, forum, bulletin boards, and games sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

General News

Travel

Education/Reference

Health

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#6,729

#20,704

#25,698

#49,428

#59,357

Name

Rank

#1,587

#1,669

#1,715

#2,115

#2,397