🆚 Snapchat vs. WeChat
- 📈 WeChat is three times more popular than Snapchat.
- 🌍 WeChat is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands.
- 🌎 Snapchat is more popular in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.
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About
Snapchat is a messaging and social networking app that lets users send photos and videos ("Snaps") that disappear after being viewed by default.
It supports temporary Snaps, 24-hour Stories, augmented reality filters and lenses, a Snap Map for location sharing, private chats with voice and video calls, and a Memories archive with optional PIN protection.
WeChat (or Weixin in Chinese) is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app that has evolved into a super-app combining communication, commerce, and everyday services.
It supports text, voice, and video messaging, group chats, public accounts, and the Moments social feed, includes an integrated digital wallet and payments through WeChat Pay, and hosts mini-programs and third-party services within its ecosystem.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Kuwait in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Qatar in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 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 Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
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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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.