top messaging platforms that everyone must be using in 2025
Where as, so as people get in touch with their friends and families who rather a distance from them, people use messaging platforms.
These messaging platforms require an internet connection so as to access them on either application stores, websites or some of them coming pre-installed in some smartphone brands.
best messaging apps 2025.
- Facebook Messenger
- Telegram
Whatsapp is a free messaging platform owned by Meta.
It was launched in February 2009, about 16 years ago by Whatsapp Inc.. It was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately 19.3 billion.
The main aim is to offer free messaging, instant messaging, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
Whatsapp is used by users to send text and voice messages. To share media for-example, photos, music, videos, documents and stickers. Other alternatives are sharing locations, polls and events. It offers fast voice and video calls across any network and amazing status update options.
Available for:
- Android Get it on Play Store
- IOS Get it on App Store
- Windows Get it on Microsoft Store
- MacOS Download for Mac
Not only the above, Whatsapp has developed a unique AI that helps to simplify chatting, you can chat with someone with a different language where you need to translate the messages using the AI, and more so to generate images and stickers that can be used in chats. The fascinating AI is available on both the web and in-app is MetaAI (META ai).
Whatsapp personal messages are always end-to-end encrypted, so no one out of the chat can access those messages, eventhough the Police’s surveilance department.
Whatsapp is group enabled where you can create groups and chat with your friends and families. Whatsapp groups can be organised in communities where each can have a different topic but many groups in it, all managed by same admin.
Moreso, channels where followers will get updates on whatever you post in the channel but can’t reply to them unless they are admins.
The last amazing feature in chats is where you can lock your chats and just type your passcode in search bar so as those chats can be accessed. Messages in chats also come with an option of view once, if enabled, the specific media can only be viewed once when its sent, and neither can it be screenshot.
Top countries that use Whatsapp the most.
- India- Over 400 million accounts registered
- Brazil- Over 100 million accounts registered
- Indonesia- Over 80 million downloads
Countries that don’t use Whatsapp.
- China: Whatsapp is blocked so as to support native WeChat.
- North Korea: Internet access is heavily restricted hence Whatsapp can’t be accessed.
Facebook Messenger
It offers instant messaging with VoIP.
Facebook Messenger is used to send messages, exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio, and some other files, more so, reactions to messages and interacting with bots i.e Meta.ai. More so, it offers fast voice and video calling and playing games. Messages in a conversation are end to end encrypted.
Rather some countries can’t access it without a vpn connection.
Telegram
It was originally launched for IOS on 14 August, 2013 and on Android on 20 October, 2013.
It’s currently available for:
- Android Get from Play Store
- IOS Get from App Store
- MacOS Get from Mac App Store
- Windows Download for windows
- Linux Download for Linux
- Web-browser web.telegram.org and another alternative web.
It was founded in March of 2013, about 12 years ago By:
- Nikolai Durov
- Pavel Durov (current CEO)
It provides it’s users with ability to send Instant Messages, share media and files e.g photos, music, videos, location and contacts.
More so, has private voice and video calls with public live streams in groups and channels.
The software also has a built-in wallet where crypto can be kept. More so, a market place to buy and sell crypto using p2p. The wallet is very secure more so, while using telegram’s TON coins.
Telegram has also introduced in-app reactions besides the known emojis, what we call Telegram Stars. These telegram stars are worth a certain amount of money and can be withdrawn or exchanged into crypto.
More so, Telegram is enabled with gifts sharing that are worth some amount of money if exchanged into crypto and later withdrawn.
- 810 active million users in China
- 120 active million users in Malaysia
- 10 active million users in India
- 9.5 active million users in Russia
- 5.5 active million users in Japan
It was first released in 2011, by Tencent.
Subscribers of WeChat are provided with the following: Instant Messaging, Voice Messaging, Sharing of media i.e Photos, locations, Music, Broadcast Messaging/Streaming, Video games, Online video gaming, online payments,
Available for:
- IOS Get from App Store
- Android Get from Play Store
- Windows Get from Microsoft Store
- MacOS Get from Mac App Store
- Web (
WeChat.com
/weixin.qq.com)
WeChat is considered not only a messaging app but, super-social media application where you can also find friends, as like Facebook.
But, messages of WeChat are not hundred percent end-to-end encrypted. They can be accessed by the Chinese government through surveilance systems by policies.
Best in each category
- In instant messaging (whatsapp & telegram)
- Secured messages (whatsapp and telegram)
- Finding friends (WeChat)
- Transactions e.g sending money (WeChat and telegram)
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