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Who runs LINE, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest instant messaging alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
Measured from LINE’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit LINE01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs LINE
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More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
Wikidata: instant messaging and social networking service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What LINE tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
9 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to LINE
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to LINE, thumbs down if it isn’t.
18 of the 60 sites closest to LINE match.
- 01
WhatsApp | Secure and Reliable Free Private Messaging and Calling
Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.
Very close - 02
Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
Very close - 03
GroupMe | Group chat app
Group text messaging to every phone. The easy way to connect with all the groups in your life, big and small.
Very close - 04
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Very close - 05
The Official VK Messenger
Communication is what VK Messenger was made for. You’ll find all your VK friends already here. Add people from your phone’s contact list, and start calling and messaging all in one convenient app. Exclusive features and useful improvements come with every update.
Very close - 06
Threema – Secure Communication For Individuals and Companies
The secure instant messenger from Switzerland. GDPR-compliant messaging for individuals and organizations that value privacy, security and data protection.
Very close - 07
Download Hinge, the dating app designed to be deleted | Hinge
Hinge is built on the belief that anyone looking for love should be able to find it. It’s also built on an acclaimed Nobel-Prize-winning algorithm, so we can succeed in getting you out on promising dates, not keeping you on the app.
Very close - 08
Brevo: Email & SMS Marketing, CRM & Automation Platform
Brevo is the most intuitive all-in-one customer engagement platform: email and SMS marketing, automation, CRM, live chat, and transactional email. Try it free.
Very close - 09
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Very close - 10
Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
Very close - 11
Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
Simple, scalable and reliable. Hosted realtime APIs loved by developers and trusted by giants. Build live dashboards, notifications, geotracking, chat and more.
Very close - 12
Pay Friends | Payments App | Venmo
Welcome to Venmo! Manage your account balance, send/receive money, split bills, pay friends, and stay connected with your network all in one place.
Very close - 13
AI-Powered Omnichannel Customer Engagement Platform | SaleSmartly
Trusted by 300,000+ businesses. Unify WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram & more in a shared inbox with AI agents, CRM & automation to capture, convert & retain customers.
Very close - 14
Meitu Inc.
Meitu Inc. is an AI-driven technology company with "beauty" as its core ideal. Dedicated to developing world-class imaging products, we make image, video, and design creation straightforward and efficient.
Very close - 15
BAND – The App For Groups
Where Leaders Communicate Better
Very close - 16
Locket - Best friends first
Add your friends to your Home Screen, share weekly recaps, and keep your people close. Locket is for best friends first.
Very close - 17
Feeld: The Dating App for Open-Minded Individuals
Feeld connects open-minded people exploring love, desire, and alternative relationships in a safe, inclusive space.
Very close - 18
The AI Customer Support Platform for Every Business - Crisp
Crisp is the ultimate all-in-one AI-powered multichannel messaging platform that helps businesses connect instantly with their customers or leads who are waiting for support. With its quickly evolving set of tools, Crisp is leading businesses through the AI-driven revolution by using conversations to unlock hypergrowth.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles LINE’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones LINE uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what LINE adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to LINE’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: gNJnR-oy5h-wwGaR2SqMpaH7rd4Cqqnp1vjMJclcOe-o06mLYQTMHw==
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/swiper@11/swiper-bundle.min.js
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Ri-G6bf49-iTkhhxR6TAWnk0_yfslPvcvsQrPa8Usvc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=35wnsqkba1tqtxca6q5xlxrxcul4qd
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on line.me 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on line.me 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Atlassian · not on line.me 6/20
- Zendesk · not on line.me 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on line.me 6/20
- nginx · not on line.me 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on line.me 5/20
- OpenAI · not on line.me 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on line.me 4/20
- HubSpot · not on line.me 4/20
- Stripe · not on line.me 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on line.me 4/20
- Apple Business · not on line.me 4/20
- SendGrid · not on line.me 4/20