vs Comparison

Messenger vs WhatsApp

Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.

Messenger

m.me is Meta's short-link domain for Facebook Messenger, opening chats with people, Facebook Pages and businesses in the Messenger app or web client.

WhatsApp

Free mobile and desktop app for end-to-end encrypted text, voice and video messaging and calling, group chats, and status updates, plus WhatsApp Business tools for companies to communicate with customers.

Company
Part of facebook.com
Part of whatsapp.net
Registered in
Unknown
Unknown
Online since
Unknown
Unknown
Audience
Top 10K
Top 100
Trackers on the homepage
Ad trackers
None
None
Cookie banner
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Prices
No pricing page found
No pricing page found
Last price change
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–
Privacy policy changes
0
0
Terms changes
0
0
Open positions
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.