Meet Wechat the new WhatsApp rival

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wechat-645x250Now with 450 million users, WhatsApp is, without a doubt, the leading messaging app. But now you may feel threatened by the great Chinese rival Wechat, which is the second most popular app. But this does not only rely on the SMS service, but also with video calls, among others.

WeChat is a free multiplatform application - available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Mac, Blackberry and Symbian - for exchanging text, voice, image and video messages. With him, all contacts talk to each other for free. There is also a great advantage in the app, it is integrated with Facebook.

HD and group video calls are some strong features of the application, which also functions as a social network. In addition, WeChat also has privacy functions such as storing messages in a safe place, leaving them offline. With this, you can read your friends' scraps even if they are not online.

The lead company for the app, Tencent, released some data today and among them is proof of the approach to WhatsApp. The combination of WeChat and Weixin (version of the app in China) reached 355 million users at the end of last year. This is equivalent to a 121% growth compared to last year, as highlighted by the The Next Web.

However, WeChat has been doing its work around the world, having doubled its share of the global market and earlier this year it went from 100 million downloads on Google Play internationally.

Now, anyone who is curious just to download, test and leave in the comments in your opinion which is the best SMS exchange app. Wechat  por WhatsApp?

Here are the download links (iOS, Android, Nokia, BlackBerry, Windows Phone)

Source: [The Next Web]

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