π Threema vs. Zalo
- π Zalo is much more popular than Threema.
- π Zalo is more popular in Vietnam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Singapore.
- π Threema is more popular in Germany and Switzerland.
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About
Threema is a commercial, cross-platform instant messaging app focused on privacy and security.
It uses end-to-end encryption for messages, voice, video, group chats, and files, allows anonymous use without a phone number or email, and runs on Swiss-based servers with GDPR compliance and minimal metadata collection.
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.
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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
- π₯ Most popular in Vietnam in the Instant Messaging category.
- π₯ Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Instant Messaging category.
- β 7th most popular in Singapore in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
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ποΈ 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 3,653,460 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.