With the growing popularity of mobile social networking, I have created a list of 10 leading social apps globally. These apps are in fierce competition with the main social sites already!

The picture here is a bit different if I look at the brand names. WhatsApp and Messenger are in a close race for the top spot. But both of theses most popular social media apps are owned by Facebook so the competition may not be as fierce as between completely separate companies. Then there’s a lot of Asian apps and then on the sixth spot is Instagram, again owned by Facebook.

WhatsApp added another 100 million monthly active users reaching 1.3 billion and leaving Facebook Messenger behind with 1.2 billion monthly active users. Both of these mobile platforms are owned by Facebook.

Social Networking App

Monthly Active Users

Messenger (owned by Facebook) 1,300,000,000
WhatsApp (owned by Facebook ) 1,300,000,000
WeChat 938,000,000
QQ Chat 861,000,000
Instagram (owned by Facebook) 800,000,000
QZone 652,000,000
Viber 249,000,000
LINE 218,000,000
Snapchat 200,000,000
YY 122,000,000

WeChat took the 3rd position as it passed QQ with more than 70 million monthly active users as QQ continues to slide.

Social networking apps are going to grow even bigger as people adopt them into their everyday lives. Here we have listed the mobile-first social media platforms. But the Facebook mobile app would dominate this list with 1.2+ billion monthly active users. As smartphones’ adoption continues, the share of the desktop use of social media platforms will fall .

For list of social media apps that are smaller check List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users from Wikipedia.

hopefully this info is good :)