Privacy-friendly alternatives to Snapchat
The social media messaging sites closest to Snapchat, with the fewest trackers first: what each homepage loads before you accept cookies. Snapchat itself loads 1 tracker.
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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American video-sharing and social networking service
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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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.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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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.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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Tango Live - Live Stream & Video Chat
Tango is your free video chat and live streaming platform to meet new people, stream live, and connect in real time, anytime. Join now and start chatting.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Uses third-party embeds. Compare with Snapchat →
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LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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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.
Uses third-party embeds. Compare with Snapchat →
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WeChat - Connects with over 1 billion users | Chats · Calls · Life Services
WeChat is a social communication app serving over 1 billion users, supporting free chat, HD voice and video calls, Moments, and mobile payments, making communication and life more convenient.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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Telegram Messenger
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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photo sharing website
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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Farcaster
A decentralized social network
Uses privacy-friendly analytics, third-party embeds. Compare with Snapchat →
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Dailymotion
video streaming site
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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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!
Uses third-party embeds. Compare with Snapchat →
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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.
No trackers, ad pixels or embeds on its homepage. Compare with Snapchat →
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TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Uses marketing and email tracking. Compare with Snapchat →
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Chosen from the Snapchat alternatives whose homepages we could read, closest first among those with the same number of trackers. A tag manager counts as a tracker: it loads more after you consent.