🆚 Telegram vs. Zen
- 📈 Telegram is much more popular than Zen.
- 🌍 Telegram is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Zen is particularly popular in Russia.
Telegram
ZenType
About
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.
Zen is a Russian blogging and media publishing platform originally created by 
Yandex and later acquired by 
VK.
It allows users to publish articles, videos, clips, and long-form posts, automatically curates content through personalized recommendation feeds, and includes monetization through advertising revenue sharing and subscriber donations.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.