WeChat 微信 / Weixin
More info
- Creator
- Tencent (Allen Zhang)
- Released
- Type
- Superapp
- Website
- wechat.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
China's everything app — messaging, payments, taxis, doctor bookings, an in-app "mini-program" app store. 1.3+ billion users.
Started as a WhatsApp clone, became "the OS for Chinese life". WeChat Pay + Alipay dominate the cashless market in China. Heavily censored (searching for sensitive terms can wipe conversations remotely). The international version is partially separated — Chinese accounts can't switch to the HK/global edition. The canonical example of the "superapp" concept Musk wants to copy with X.