Link | Skype | Google Hangouts | LINE | Kik Messenger | Viber | BlackBerry Messenger | Telegram | Bistri | Bria | forfone | Fring | KakaoTalk | Movicha | Nimbuzz | ooVoo | PingMe | Scydo | Talkbox | Tango | Threema | VoipBuster | Voxer | ||
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Website | whatsapp.com | skype.com | google.com/... | line.me | kik.com | viber.com | bbm.com | telegram.org | bistri.com | facebook.com | counterpath.com/... | forfone.com | fring.com | kakao.com/... | movicha.com | nimbuzz.com | oovoo.com | pingme.net | scydo.com | talkboxapp.com | tango.me | threema.ch | voipbuster.com | voxer.com |
Worldwide User | 800 million | 560 million | 500 milion | 400 million | 100 million | 600 million | 115 mil registered, 85 mil active users | 100 million | 1.35 billion(Aug 2014) | 57 Millions | 50 mil | 23 million | 15 milion | |||||||||||
Location | USA | USA | USA | Japan | Canada | Japan | Canada | Russia | France | USA | USA | South Corea | India | Swizerland | ||||||||||
Last update | Mar. 19th 2020 1:47:47 AM | Mar. 13th 2020 2:00:41 AM | Mar. 23rd 2020 10:24:29 AM | Jan. 22nd 2017 5:03:25 PM | Mar. 13th 2017 5:35:50 PM | Jan. 23rd 2017 3:55:10 PM | Nov. 10th 2014 5:58:45 PM | Mar. 19th 2020 1:47:47 AM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 8th 2022 6:18:04 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Jul. 6th 2016 3:10:36 PM | Nov. 15th 2014 12:27:22 AM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Mar. 13th 2017 5:35:50 PM | Feb. 2nd 2016 9:07:29 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM | Sep. 17th 2014 2:31:01 PM |
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IM Style Chat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Facebook messenger | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | |||
Make phone calls | Yes 0.99 USD/year | Yes Based on subscription plans | Yes | Yes Free | Yes Based on subscription plans | Yes In-app voice call over mobile data or wifi | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes USD 0.048/min mobile 0.020 landline | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||||||
Caller ID | No | Yes Paid feature | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | - n/a | ||||||||||||
Free phone calls | Yes | Yes 25 user limit | Yes between US, Canada, Puerto Rico | Yes | Yes | Yes In-app voice call over mobile data or wifi | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Free, except to landline | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||
Make video calls | No | Yes up to 25 people | Yes up to 10 people | Yes | Yes | Yes BlackBerry only, coming to iOS, Android, Windows Phone soon | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ||||||
SMS Delivery | Yes | Yes Paid feature ($ varies per country) | Yes on Android | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||||
MMS | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||||
Group Chat | Yes max 100 users | Yes 300 people | Yes 150 people | Yes 50 | Yes max 15 users | Yes up to 50 per group | Yes max 5000 users | Yes up to 4 per group | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes limit 8 user | No | Yes | No | ||||||
Free international calls | Yes Free calls to specific countries (local numbers) with subscription service | Yes | Yes | Yes via wifi | - some countries, germany, spain, italy, UK, Switzerland | Yes paid | Yes Free, except to landline | No | - some countries | |||||||||||||||
Group calls | No | Yes up to 25 people | Yes 10 users | Yes max 8 users | No | No | Yes Free group video call up to 4 users | No | Yes | Yes | Yes 3 to 5 friends can participate in a Group Call at the same time. | Yes Free group video calls with up to 12 people | No | |||||||||||
Payment methods | Yes free | Yes Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Ukash, Skrill, Maestro, Paybycash,sofortbanking, one-off bank transfer, Diners, paysafe card, JCB | Yes free | No Calling others through phone provider | Yes free | No | Yes in-App, paypal, credit card | Yes Paypal, Credit Card, CashU | Yes Visa, Mastercard | Yes VISA,MasterCard, AMEX, Discover | ||||||||||||||
Favorites | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes You can register favorite friends so that you can easily locate them in Friends menu. | Yes | Yes Groups | No | No | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Phone Contact Integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||||||||
FB Contact Integration | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes msn,yahoo,google talk,AIM,Myspace ICQ & Hyves | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
Other Contact Integration | No, address book only | Facebook, Email (outlook contacts), rediff, mail.ru, Yandex, Libero, Rambler, mail.com, 163.com, Wirtualna Polska, Daum,Interia, Indiatimes, 126.com, FastMail contacts | Integrated web browser | Google, Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP | Microsoft Outlook® emails and contacts | Yahoo, ICQ, Aim, Hangouts, SIP (voip) | Yahoo, Hangouts ,Aim , ICQ, SIP/voip providers | Skype, email (Outlook contacts), instant messengers, social networks | Phone contacts, SMS, email, Twitter, PingMe network | |||||||||||||||
Status Setting | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes Online, Busy, Away, Invisible | Yes | No | ||||||||||||
Invite Friends | No need to send sms from cellular | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes by sms or share link for download app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
Status feed | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
Custom Chat Area | Yes Background/ Font/ Sound | No | Yes Background | Yes Background/ Font/ Sound | Yes Background/ Font/ Sound | Yes Wallpaper | Yes Background/ Font/ Sound | Yes | Yes | Yes Font, emoticons | Yes | Yes | Yes Background/ Font/ Sound | |||||||||||
File transfer | No | Yes | No | - only some file formats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Photo based contact | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Facebook profile picture | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
History | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
Premium features | - | Yes eBBM Suite for enterprise | Yes Enterprise Features | Yes photo and location sharing, landline dialing (forout) | Yes | Yes NimbuzzOut | Yes ooVoo PRO | |||||||||||||||||
Exporting and Importing Friends List | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Languages | lot | Multilanguage | depends on platform | Multilanguage | Afrikaans; Azerbaijani; Indonesian; Malay; Javanese; Cebuano; Bosnian; Catalan; Czech; Welsh; Danish; German; Estonian; English (UK); English (US); Spanish; Spanish (Spain); Basque; Filipino; French (Canada); French (France); Frisian; Galician; Guarani; Croatian; Icelandic; Italian; Swahili; Kurdish (Kurmanji); Latvian; Lithuanian; Hungarian; Dutch; Dutch (Belgian); Norsk (Bokmal); Norwegian (Nynorsk); Uzbek; Polish; Portuguese (Brasil); Portuguese (Portugal); Romanian; Albanian; Slovak; Slovenian; Finnish; Swedish; Vietnamese; Turkish; Greek; Bulgarian; Kazakh; МаMacedonian; Mongolian; Russian; Serbian; Тajik; Ukrainian; Georgian; Armenian; Hebrew; Urdu; Arabic; Persian; Nepali; Marathi; Hindi; Bengali; Punjabi; Gujarati; Tamil; Telugu; Kannada; Malayalam; Sinhalese; Thai; Korean; Traditional Chinese (Taiwan); Simplified Chinese (China); Traditional Chinese(Hong Kong); Japanese; Japanese (Kansai) | french, german, italian, spanish, russian, english | English, Spanish, Japanese, Thai, Indonesian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Korean | PC, MOBILE, MAC - English, Spanish, French, German. Italian, Portuguese, Russian,Chinese-Simplified _______ PC ONLY - Hebrew, Arabic __________ MOBILE & MAC ONLY- Turkish, Japanese, Chinese-Traditional, Korean | ||||||||||||||||
Other features | BBM Channels, Stickers, BBM Shop, Glympse, Dropbox Integration | Share desktop, record video calls, upload recorded video calls to youtube | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sharing Features | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Share photo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
Share video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 16MB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
Share voice message | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Share file | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
Share contact | Yes | Yes | Yes PIN, QR Code, NFC | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
Share Location | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reliability | 3.5/5 2 ratings | 3.2/5 6 ratings | no rating | no rating | no rating | 4.3/5 3 ratings | 5.0/5 2 ratings | 5.0/5 1 rating | 4.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | 3.0/5 2 ratings | no rating | 1.0/5 1 rating | 5.0/5 2 ratings | no rating | 4.3/5 3 ratings | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating |
Operating System | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Desktop Windows | No | Yes | No | Yes + Win8 App | No | Yes + Win8 App | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
macOS | Yes | Yes | Yes with web browser | Yes | No | Yes Mac/OSX | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
Android | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes >= 4.0 | Yes | Yes | |||
iPhone/iPad | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Blackberry OS | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | - text only | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||
Symbian | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
Windows Mobile | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
Web Client | No | - Skype chat is integrated with OneDrive web client | - only Chrome app | No | No | No | - BBM Channel management and access only | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Social Networks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
@Skype | @viber | @BBM | @telegram | @bistri | @CounterPath | @forfone | @fring | @kakaotalk | @nimbuzz | @oovoovideo | @PingMe | @scydo | @TalkBoxApp | |||||||||||
facebook.com/... | facebook.com/... | facebook.com | facebook.com/... | |||||||||||||||||||||
Website | whatsapp.com | skype.com | google.com/... | line.me | kik.com | viber.com | bbm.com | telegram.org | bistri.com | facebook.com | counterpath.com/... | forfone.com | fring.com | kakao.com/... | movicha.com | nimbuzz.com | oovoo.com | pingme.net | scydo.com | talkboxapp.com | tango.me | threema.ch | voipbuster.com | voxer.com |
Registration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Without phone number | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
Email + Password | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | - | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
Share account on multiple devices | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Other | BlackBerry ID | Google+ |