Top 3 best free messaging applications in Vietnam today

Thanks to these free messaging apps, we just need to connect to the network to chat with friends comfortably, without spending money on phone porridge. If you are in Vietnam, you must be using one of these 3 extremely popular messaging applications.

If the Line , Tango , Kakao Talk and Beetalk are gradually disappearing, the 'big three' in OTT village is becoming more and more popular. Almost everyone who owns a smartphone will also install one of the three, even the three applications, which are: Zalo, Facebook Messenger and Viber. Let's TipsMake.com learn about the top 3 popular messaging applications in Vietnam.

1. Zalo messaging application

Zalo PC | Zalo for iOS | Zalo for Android | Zalo for Mac | Zalo for Windows Phone

Zalo is a messaging, voice and video calling application that has beaten all other competitors to become the most popular OTT service in Vietnam. The strength of Zalo is Vietnamese application, understanding Vietnamese psychology and habits, thereby giving attractive features that are difficult to deny. Although not the earliest messaging application in Vietnam, Zalo has quickly gained market share and gradually dominated this market when there are tens of millions of regular users every month.

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Zalo Web interface

Outstanding points of Zalo:

1. Registration is extremely simple.
2. Full features of messaging, calling, video call.
3. The ability to retrieve sent messages helps you retrieve the message when you misspelled it.
4. Fun sticker set in Vietnamese, follow the event, the occasion is very lovely.
5. No need to declare any information without checking email to confirm, even if you lose your account, password, users only need the phone number to get back.
6. Ability to back up messages, create poll polls, support group chat and lots of other useful features to interact with friends.
7. In addition to having the full functionality of other applications, Zalo stands out for allowing users to own, using a personal diary page with instant sharing as a social networking site.
8. The ability to share information (files, images with HD quality) up to 20MB and can perform with multiple files at the same time help Zalo is the number one choice of civil servants, students or office circles.
9. Zalopage is becoming a popular online business trend, also attracting more users to this application.
10. The ability to record speech for up to 5 minutes with voice quality, when messaging is extremely stable even if only 3G is connected.
11. In addition, Zalo has many versions like Zalo PC for Windows, Mac, Linux and Zalo computers for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and even Zalo Web used in the browser, extremely convenient.

Disadvantages of Zalo:

1. There is no version for Java yet .
2. Not able to connect directly with social networking sites Facebook , Twitter .

Top 3 best free messaging applications in Vietnam today Picture 2 Versions of the Zalo messaging application

2. Facebook Messenger messaging application

Facebook Messenger | Facebook Messenger for Android | Facebook Messenger for iOS | Facebook Messenger for Windows 10

Messenger is separated from the Facebook chat feature and quickly became a chat tool loved by Vietnamese users. If you're walking around a large social network, it's not hard to see the chat screen images of this app shared. Facebook Messenger has emerged not only because of its "relying" Facebook, but the messaging application itself also offers interesting features that attract users. These two factors contributed to bringing Facebook Messenger to the second position in this ranking.

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Messenger interface on the web

The main advantage of Facebook Messenger:

1. Support group chat, private chat, video call, voice call, secret chat support.
2. You can send messages to people who are not on your friends list.
3. Share files easily, including photos, videos, document files, even applications
4. Free and extremely rich sticker warehouse.
5. Many custom colors, unique wallpapers.
6. Many fun games to play with friends while chatting.
7. Can store messages.
8. Available on popular web browsers and smartphone operating systems.

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Play EverWing game on Messenger

Disadvantages of Facebook Messenger:

1. There is no computer application.
2. Occasionally there is an error connecting or crashing the application on the phone
3. The message cannot be retrieved after sending.
4. Failed to retrieve Facebook messages if permanently deleted.

3. Viber messaging application

Download Viber | Viber for Android | Viber for iOS | Viber for Windows Phone | Viber for BlackBerry

Viber was once a direct competitor of Zalo. Popular in Vietnam around 2012. That is probably the 'golden' moment of this application, because no one does not know, no one does not use Viber , not only as a form of communication, but also Personal affirmation, by 2012 is the booming year of smart mobile devices and mobile applications on smartphones.

While Zalo just appeared, trying to understand the market and try to improve his service, Viber fell asleep on the victory, not much innovation and losing market share in Vietnam. Currently, Viber has been officially acquired by Rakuten , an Internet and e-commerce service company of Japan.

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Viber chat application interface

Advantages of Viber:

1. Fully featured messaging, voice call, video call, file sharing, contact, .
2. Support to delete messages even if it has been sent, help to recover messages in case of sending wrong.
3. Can create chat groups up to 40 people.
4. Sticker supports Vietnamese language.
5. Can play games.
6. Support for up to 60 different languages.
7. Sound filter works extremely well, helping users to listen and call with the best voice quality.
8. Viber can be called to other phone numbers even if they do not use this service.
9. Available on phones and PCs.
10. Support to create Public channels for organizations to interact with customers, users, fans.

Disadvantages of Viber:

1. Consume RAM on your computer and be quite heavy when installed on your phone.
2. Connection quality is not really good and stable.
3. To use Viber Out, users are forced to pay.
4. There are stickers that users have to pay to buy and use.

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Sticker of Viber messaging application

The above are the most popular messaging applications in Vietnam that most people use. Also you can catch other names like WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Google Hangout, . What about you? What messaging application are you using? Please share with us by commenting and sharing your experience below this article.

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