🆚 Reddit vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Reddit.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia.
- 🌍 Reddit is more popular in Vietnam, Isle of Man, and Saint Helena.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Reddit
WhatsAppType
Social media platform
Instant messaging app
About
Reddit is a social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network where content is promoted by members ("redditors") through voting.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Ad-supported
Reddit Premium$5.99/month
Free ✔️
WhatsApp Business, US rate per conversation
Free version ✔️1,000 free service conversations/month
Marketing$0.025
Authentication$0.0135
Utility$0.004
Service$0
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The WhatsApp instant messaging app is 15 times more popular than Reddit.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia, while Reddit is more popular in Vietnam, Isle of Man, and Saint Helena.
Brazil
India
Russia
Spain
Turkey
Indonesia
Italy
Thailand
United States
Argentina
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Iran in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in India in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the Philippines in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Romania in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
WhatsApp is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Reddit is more commonly used on games sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.