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Facebook alternatives: 10 similar apps

Facebook by Meta Platforms, Inc., Social Networking, has 28,255,368 ratings at 4.5 on the 🇺🇸 United States App Store. The 10 apps below are the ones Apple keeps returning on the first page for the 8 phrases Facebook's own listing is built from, Instagram most of all. Not a similarity model: the live search results, read today.

  1. 1

    Instagram

    29,465,973 ratings in US · shares 2 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #3 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1. Also on the page for "people" (#6).

  2. 2

    Messenger

    13,527,977 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #2 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

  3. 3

    TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE

    18,357,479 ratings in US · shares 2 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #4 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1. Also on the page for "where" (#22).

  4. 4

    Snapchat

    5,931,699 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #5 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

  5. 5

    YouTube

    48,909,984 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #6 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

  6. 6

    WhatsApp Messenger

    18,566,804 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #7 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

  7. 7

    Gmail - Email by Google

    2,437,009 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #8 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

  8. 8

    X

    11,013,588 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #9 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

  9. 9

    Threads

    2,221,803 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #10 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

  10. 10

    Google

    5,059,320 ratings in US · shares 1 of 8 search pages with Facebook

    Ranks #11 for "facebook", where Facebook sits at #1.

How this list is made

We split Facebook's name and description into the 8 phrases people would type (facebook, where, real, people, propel, curiosity, whether, thrifting), search each on the United States App Store today, and count which apps keep appearing in the first 25 results. An app that sits on many of the same pages, high up, is a real alternative in the only sense that matters on the store: people looking for one find the other. No embeddings, no paid placements, no affiliate links.

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