{"id":40499,"date":"2013-05-02T00:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=40499"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:28:34","slug":"line-messenger-has-more-than-150-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/line-messenger-has-more-than-150-million-users\/","title":{"rendered":"LINE messenger has more than 150 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"LINE messenger has more than 150 million users\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/line-messenger-has-more-than-150-million-users\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40503\" title=\"line messenger icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/line-icon.png\" alt=\"line messenger icon\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><a title=\"line Naver\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/naver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LINE<\/a>, the popular multi-platform messaging app, has broken 150 million users. Earlier this year, the company was excited to announce they had over 100 million users. Four months later, they have added 50 million users, proving that people love cute animal stickers.<\/p>\n<p>This growth isn&#8217;t too surprising as apps like <a title=\"snapchat\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/snapchat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapchat<\/a>, Facebook Messenger, and Whatsapp are quickly becoming the preferred method of communication. For the first time ever, chat apps like LINE are <a title=\"chat apps leave texting in the dust\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2418340,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surpassing texting<\/a>. Messaging apps like LINE offer distinct advantages over texting like no character limits, easy multimedia sharing, and read receipts.<\/p>\n<p>While LINE is prospering in Asia, it&#8217;s up against tough competition in the United States with <a title=\"facebook messenger\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/facebook-messenger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger<\/a> (who recently added <a title=\"Facebook updates Messenger for Android, brings cute bunny stickers\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-updates-messenger-for-android-brings-cute-bunny-stickers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stickers<\/a> themselves), <a title=\"Viber\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/viber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viber<\/a>, and <a title=\"Whatsapp\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whatsapp<\/a>. LINE has a very strong ecosystem with apps for <a title=\"LINE for android\" href=\"http:\/\/line.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, <a title=\"Line for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/line.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a>, <a title=\"LINE for blackberry\" href=\"http:\/\/line.en.softonic.com\/blackberry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackberry<\/a>, <a title=\"Windows Phone LINE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/line\/a18daaa9-9a1c-4064-91dd-794644cd88e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Phone<\/a>, <a title=\"LINE for PC\" href=\"http:\/\/line.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PC<\/a>, <a title=\"LINE for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/line.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a>, and <a title=\"LINE for windows 8 windows RT\" href=\"http:\/\/line-windows-8.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 8\/RT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40505\" title=\"LINE messenger growth\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/line-graph.jpg\" alt=\"LINE messenger growth\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/line-graph.jpg 921w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/line-graph-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Line japan\" href=\"http:\/\/linecorp.com\/press\/2013\/0501551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LINE Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LINE, the popular multi-platform messaging app, has broken 150 million users. Earlier this year, the company was excited to announce they had over 100 million users. Four months later, they have added 50 million users, proving that people love cute animal stickers. This growth isn&#8217;t too surprising as apps like Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, and Whatsapp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/line-messenger-has-more-than-150-million-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LINE messenger has more than 150 million users&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":40505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-40499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333000,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions\/333000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}