🆚 WeChat vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than WeChat.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia.
- 🌍 WeChat is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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About
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.
WhatsApp is a cross-platform instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta that enables private messaging, media sharing, and internet-based voice and video communication.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, and make voice and video calls including group calls. It also 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 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 Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in South Africa 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.
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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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.