WeChat is a powerful social media platform that enables users to connect with people from all over the world. With WeChat, users can send messages, share photos and videos, make voice and video calls, and even play games with friends. WeChat
Weixin is an instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. WeChat is the international version registered with international phone numbers. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 with over 1 billion monthly active users. WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a super-app because of its wide range of functions. WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing. It has been described as having "an almost indispensable part of life in China".