🆚 Signal vs. Zalo

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Signal
Zalo

Type

Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app

About

Signal is an open-source, privacy-focused messaging app for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls.

Zalo is a Vietnamese mobile instant messenger and social media service.

It provides text messaging with images, voice and video calls, status posts, and file sharing, friend discovery by phone number or QR code, reminders and group chats, and integrates mobile payments via ZaloPay and business tools like Official Accounts and Mini Apps.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Website

signal.org #13,401
zalo.me #1,339

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ✔️ Basic
Advanced 99,000 VND/month
Premium 399,000 VND/month

Categories

Instant Messaging › Rank #23
Instant Messaging › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Zalo 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.

Zalo is more popular in Vietnam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Singapore, while Signal is more popular in Germany, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
Vietnam
U.S. Virgin Islands
Singapore
United States
Germany
Ukraine
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
Japan
Korea

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Zalo is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and education and reference, while Signal is more commonly used on personal pages sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#3,666
#28,742
#30,333
#39,579
#46,795
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Name
Rank
#1,339
#2,444
#3,001
#3,212
#3,276
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See also

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