Difference Between WhatsApp and Viber
Viber and WhatsApp are both are instant messaging apps with variety of features. Let's see a differential analysis of the two.
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| Founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of Yahoo! | Founded by Israeli and Belarusian partners Talmon Marco, Igor Magazinnik, Sani Maroli and Ofer Smocha, with Marco as its CEO. |
| Owned by Facebook Inc. | Owned by Viber Media. |
| WhatsApp is available for smartphones (Windows Phone, Android, Symbian, iOS, Blackberry OS, and Tizen), and can also be accessed on the web. | Viber is available for desktop(Windows, OS X, Unix-like, Bada, and Linux), smartphones (Windows Phone, Android, Symbian, iOS, and Blackberry OS), but cannot be accessed on the web. |
| There is a subscription free for WhatsApp of $1 after one year. | Viber is free without any subscription. However, Viber provides premium icons for users, which have to be paid for. |
| WhatsApp is built on the Erlang programming language. | Written in C/C++/Python (desktop, using SIP and Qt frameworks), Objective-C (iOS), and Java (Android). |
| Available in 32 Languages. | Available in 30 languages. |
| WhatsApp's user base is more. | Viber has less users compared to WhatsApp. |