⚡ Instant Messaging Apps in Chile

Instant messaging apps allow users to communicate in real time via text, voice, and video, often with group chats, file sharing, and end-to-end encryption.

Chile is a South American country with a population of around 20 million people.

According to our statistics, instant messaging apps are detected on 18.2% of websites from Chile.

Statistics based on 9K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top instant messaging apps on websites in Chile in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is WhatsApp, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 95.6% share.
It is followed by Telegram with 2.7% and Messenger with 2.3%.

WhatsApp 95.6%
Telegram 2.7%
Messenger 2.3%
Discord 0.7%
Zoom 0.3%
Slack 0.2%
IRC 0.1%
Rocket.Chat 0.1%
QQ 0.06%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top apps that are more popular in Chile than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. Discord ^(-1)
5. Zoom ^(-7)
6. Slack ^(-7)
7. IRC ^(-13)
8. Rocket.Chat ^(-14)

✨ Best Instant Messaging Apps

Below is a more detailed list of 9 instant messaging apps used on sites from Chile, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WhatsApp Menlo Park, California, United States An instant messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Meta. Free	95.6%
2	Telegram Dubai, United Arab Emirates A cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy. Free$$$	2.7%
3	Messenger Menlo Park, California, United States An instant messaging service developed by Meta, available on Android, iOS, and web platforms. Free	2.3%
4	Discord San Francisco, California, United States An instant messaging and VoIP social platform that allows users to communicate via text chat, voice, and video. Free$2.99+	0.7%
5	Zoom San Jose, California, United States A cloud-based communications platform that enables video meetings, audio conferencing, phone calls, and team chat across devices. Free$15.99+/user/month	0.3%
6	Slack San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based team communication platform for businesses, currently owned by Salesforce. Free$8.75+/month	0.2%
7	IRC A text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others. Free	0.1%
8	Rocket.Chat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source communication platform designed for organizations with high security, privacy, and data sovereignty requirements that supports real-time chat, voice, and video across web, desktop, and mobile clients. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
9	QQ Shenzhen, China A Chinese instant messaging software platform. Free	0.06%

👉 See Also

🌎 Instant Messaging in other countries

🗃️ 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 9,555 websites from Chile.
We currently track the presence of 26 instant messaging apps across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from Chile.
Statistics were last calculated on May 1, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.