Viber Media
For global users seeking secure, cross-platform messaging and cost-effective international voice calling solutions.
Known forRakuten Viber Messenger
Rakuten Viber MessengerFor global users seeking secure, cross-platform messaging and cost-effective international voice calling solutions.
Rakuten Viber MessengerFacilitating global communication through secure messaging and international calling. Connecting users across devices with a focus on privacy and community.
Target audience
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Rakuten Viber Messenger
vVARY
2mo ago
Primary focus
Communication and social networking platforms
Scale
indie
Target audience
Global users seeking secure, cross-platform messaging and cost-effective international voice calling solutions.
Released 15 updates across 2 apps in the last 6 months, indicating a high-frequency maintenance and feature-rollout cycle.
2 apps analysed
Enjoy secure messaging & calling. Safe Messenger: group chats, calls, messages.
Viber Out utility provides a unique revenue stream
Enjoy secure messaging & calling. Safe Messenger: group chats, calls, messages.
Viber Out provides a direct, non-ad revenue stream
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Positive apps
1
Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
40/100
Avg sentiment score
Dominates the global secure messaging market with massive network effects and a near-identical feature set to Viber.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
This app directly competes for the same global communication user base by leveraging the ubiquity of the WhatsApp ecosystem to capture users seeking familiar, high-frequency messaging interfaces.
Leverages the massive Facebook social graph to provide a frictionless communication layer for existing social connections.
The gold standard for privacy-conscious users, offering a minimalist and highly secure communication alternative.
Telegram competes for power users who prioritize cloud-based synchronization and large-scale group management over traditional social messaging.
This app targets the creative and expressive side of social networking, overlapping with Viber's heavy reliance on sticker-based communication.
A comprehensive super-app that bundles messaging with payments, news, and digital services in key Asian markets.
Kik targets the younger demographic by prioritizing anonymous, username-based identity and public group discovery.
Provides a specialized communication solution often used in regions with restricted VoIP access.
Shares the 'Communities' audience, offering robust voice and text spaces for interest-based groups.
Focuses on high-quality video conferencing and professional collaboration within the Google Workspace ecosystem.
EventApp competes for the organizational use case within social networking, specifically targeting group coordination and event planning.
Designed for structured community management, offering tools like calendars and polls for organized groups.
Specializes in simplified group coordination, particularly effective for non-smartphone users via SMS integration.
This app occupies the niche sticker and greeting space that serves as a secondary utility for Viber's core messaging users.
This app provides auxiliary visual communication tools that enhance the messaging experience, similar to Viber's sticker ecosystem.
Dart Connect enters the space by focusing on high-performance file sharing and topic-based group organization.
A specialized tool that enhances the visual communication layer of major messaging apps through user-generated content.
This newcomer challenges the privacy-first messaging market by introducing ephemeral, ghost-account-based communication.
An emerging threat in the privacy space that removes the need for a phone number, addressing a key privacy limitation of Viber.
Rapidly evolving social text-based platform that is increasingly incorporating direct messaging features.
