🆚 WhatsApp vs. Zalo
- 📈 WhatsApp is much more popular than Zalo.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Russia.
- 🌍 Zalo is more popular in Vietnam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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About
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.
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
- 🥇 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Singapore in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
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Meta company profile🗃️ 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.