Difference Between WhatsApp and Viber
Viber and WhatsApp both are instant messaging apps with variety of features . Lets 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, Tizen ) and can also be accessed on web | Viber is available for desktop(Windows , OS X , Unix-like, Bada , Linux) , smartphones (Windows Phone , Android , Symbian , iOS ,Blackberry OS ) but cannot be accessed on web. |
| There is a subscription amount 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 Erlang programming language . | Written in C/C++/Python (desktop, using SIP and Qt frameworks), Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android). |
| Available in 32 Languages | Available in 30 languages . |
| WhatsApp's user base is more. | It has less users as compared to Whatsapp. |