Instead of seeing the popularity of both messengers Have a look at the features of HIKE AND WHATSAPP. Hike has better features than whatsapp in terms of calling and file sharing and regional stickers which is only available in Hike. In newly updated version of whatsapp, it also provides file sharing like doc,pdf etc. Now both messengers are working on video calling. Hike has more better features such as security, we can free messages to unused users and also provides stickers and emotions and we can share 100 MB file at a time and we can also free offline messages to the hike users but in whatsapp we cant send the offline messages and free messages to the available users. Even though whatsapp is more popular than hike. what is the reason behind it? why hike has lesser users than whatsapp? Have look over here......!!!!
IMPORTANT FEATURES :
| App | Free | SMS | Move SD | Privacy | SSL | File Size | Notify | Stickers | Earn Balance | Global | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lifetime | Only Users | no | Poor | No | Up to 16 MB | Average | No | Never | Yes | 60 | |
| Hike | Lifetime | Also non User | Yes | Strong | Yes | Up to 100 Mb | Better | Yes | Yes | No | 80 |
whatsapp as 1billion active users whereas hike as 100million users. The reason is when whatsapp is acquired by the facebook MARK ZUCKENBERG the number users are greatly increased because whatsapp is dominating the facebook and also impressed by the facebook users so the owner of facebook mark zuckenberg had acquired this whatsapp for 19 billions USD. After that whatsapp is linked with many top rated mobiles for marketing and making in built app in all the mobiles so that the number of users are increased . The reason is simple but the earnings are more and also dominating many other messengers like hike.
People are now addicted to whatsapp so that no other messengers are likely to be used any other messengers. Hike is providing games and some shopping coupons and many more but the users are less because hike works only in india and it is an indian application and if hike is going to available in the whole world this would be the best instant messenger. In feb 2016, the whatsapp users are almost equal to hike users.