🆚 Viber vs. WeChat
- 📈 WeChat is slightly more popular than Viber.
- 🌎 WeChat is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States.
- 🌍 Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
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About
Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and calling application owned by Rakuten.
It supports text, voice, and video messaging, one-on-one and group calls, end-to-end encryption by default, group chats with up to 250 participants, communities with unlimited members, disappearing messages, custom stickers and GIFs, and low-cost calls to phone numbers through Viber Out.
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
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 Serbia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Bulgaria 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
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.