🆚 Signal vs. Telegram
- 📈 Telegram is much more popular than Signal.
- 🌍 Telegram is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Signal is particularly popular in Germany.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
TelegramType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
Signal is an open-source, privacy-focused messaging app for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls.
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy.
It provides voice and video calls, unlimited cloud storage for regular chats and media across devices, end-to-end encryption for Secret Chats, supports groups and channels with up to 200,000 members, and allows bots and mini-apps to extend functionality.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️
Telegram PremiumVaries by country, $2.49-$4.99/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Telegram instant messaging app is 638 times more popular than Signal.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Telegram is more popular than Signal in all countries.
Russia
Ukraine
Iran
Thailand
United States
Italy
India
Germany
Belarus
Spain
Awards
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Telegram is more popular than Signal in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Finance/Banking
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Messenger
Line
Matrix
Discord
Viber
Max🗃️ 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 3,524,018 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.