🆚 Viber vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Viber.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia.
- 🌍 Viber is more popular in Ukraine, Belarus, and Serbia.
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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.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
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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 Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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