⚡ Instant Messaging Apps in Finland

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.

Finland is a Northern European country with a population of around 5.6 million people.

According to our statistics, instant messaging apps are detected on 2.8% of websites from Finland.

Statistics based on 19K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WhatsApp with an impressive share of 33.2%, followed by Telegram with 31.7% and Discord with 22%.

WhatsApp 33.2%
Telegram 31.7%
Discord 22%
Messenger 8.6%
Matrix 2.8%
Snapchat 2.6%
Slack 2.6%
Microsoft Teams 1.7%
Zoom 1.5%
Viber 0.9%
IRC 0.6%
WeChat 0.4%
RingCentral 0.4%
Rocket.Chat 0.2%
Line 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Discord ^(-2)
5. Matrix ^(-11)
6. Snapchat ^(-5)
7. Slack ^(-7)
8. Microsoft Teams ^(-7)
9. Zoom ^(-4)
11. IRC ^(-9)
13. RingCentral ^(-6)
14. Rocket.Chat ^(-8)
16. Gitter ^(-2)

✨ Best Instant Messaging Apps

Below is a more detailed list of 17 instant messaging apps used on sites from Finland, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WhatsApp Menlo Park, California, United States A cross-platform instant messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Meta that enables private messaging, media sharing, and internet-based voice and video communication. Free	33.2%
2	Telegram Dubai, United Arab Emirates A cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy. Free$$$	31.7%
3	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+	22%
4	Messenger Menlo Park, California, United States An instant messaging service developed by Meta, available on Android, iOS, and web platforms. Free	8.6%
5	Matrix London, United Kingdom A set of open APIs for open-federated Instant Messaging, Voice over IP and Internet of Things communication. Free	2.8%
6	Snapchat Santa Monica, California, United States A messaging and social networking app that lets users send photos and videos ("Snaps") that disappear after being viewed by default. Free	2.6%
7	Slack San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based team communication platform for businesses, currently owned by Salesforce. Free$8.75+/month	2.6%
8	Microsoft Teams Redmond, Washington, United States A proprietary business collaboration platform built for hybrid work, offering chat, video conferencing, file storage, and application integration. Free$9.99+/month	1.7%
9	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	1.5%
10	Viber Tokyo, Japan A free, cross-platform instant messaging and calling application owned by Rakuten. Free	0.9%
11	IRC A text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others. Free	0.6%
12	WeChat Shenzhen, China A Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app that has evolved into a super-app combining communication, commerce, and everyday services. Free	0.4%
13	RingCentral Belmont, California, United States A business communications platform that includes contact center and AI-powered phone, video, event management, and automation solutions. $20+/user/month	0.4%
14	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$$$	0.2%
15	Line Tokyo, Japan A Japanese instant messaging and social networking app often described as a super-app because it integrates services such as a digital wallet, news feed, digital comics, media streaming, and shopping. Free	0.2%
16	Gitter London, United Kingdom An open-source chat and networking platform for software developers based on the Matrix protocol. Free	0.2%
17	XMPP Parker, Colorado, United States A set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, and collaboration.	0.2%

👉 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 19,568 websites from Finland.
We currently track the presence of 26 instant messaging apps across the web.
Of these, 17 were detected on websites from Finland.
Statistics were last calculated on June 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.