
Snapchat kickstarted photo sharing and has since branched out its platform into a fully-fledged social network The most popular messaging app in the world, with over five billion downloads and two billion active usersįacebook's own messaging app isn't too shabby either, reaching five billion downloads a year after WhatsApp WhatsApp is also the most downloaded messaging app of 20.


In Eastern Europe and Africa, Viber is competitive with WhatsApp for most downloads and usage.Įver since the early 2010s, Facebook has had a commanding lead over others in messaging. Line is the most popular messaging platform in Japan, KakaoTalk in South Korea and WeChat in China, although the latter is also due to China banning Facebook and WhatsApp. Country or region specific messaging apps have also performed well.
