r/GlobalTalk • u/High_Stream • Aug 13 '21
[Question] What are some popular apps that only people in your country/language use? Question
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u/saugoof Australia Aug 14 '21
Gumtree is probably more popular than ebay for auction sites in Australia.
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u/Frankthabunny Aug 14 '21
We have Gumtree in the UK but it isn’t an auction site, it’s similar to Facebook Marketplace
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u/Tatem1961 Japan Aug 14 '21
LINE is the most popular messaging app here.
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u/cozyhighway Indonesia Aug 14 '21
Line was the most popular messaging app years ago but it's slowly being replaced by WhatsApp here in Indonesia.
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u/live_traveler Aug 14 '21
We have Marktplaats here in the Netherlands, where people can sell their old stuff to other people. And we have Bol.com which is an online shopping site.
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u/sushikot 27d ago
Marktplaats is great for used furniture! You can furnish whole apartment there. The platform itself is owned by eBay.
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u/Lazzen Mexico Aug 13 '21
Mercado Libre is the Argentinean Ebay/Amazon of Latin America, even today while losing ground they remain strong in South America. They also changed their logo from this to this one with the onset of the pandemic.
Rappi is a Colombian food app similar to Uber Eats
Back in the old days Argentinean Taringa and Metroflog were widely used blogs by all latin american spanish speakers.
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u/MisterTeapot Aug 14 '21
In the Netherlands and Belgium we have Bol.com which is the Dutch Amazon and Marktplaats which is eBay
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u/Wild_Marker Argentina Aug 14 '21
I'm always impressed at how far our online stuff reaches. I suppose I shouldn't, we've always had one of the highest rates of people connected to the net in the region IIRC.
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u/TrainingNail Brazil Aug 14 '21
We have mercado livre in other country’s of LATAM so its not exclusive to Argentina
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u/Lazzen Mexico Aug 14 '21
I literally said it's common place in latin america, specifically south america
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u/TrainingNail Brazil Aug 15 '21
Yes I know, it’s just that that wasn’t the question. And it’s not related to language either. (I guess the company IS Argentinian though. That could have been specified in the comment for a better point)
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u/Bempf Aug 14 '21
We got willhaben in Austria, it's a marketplace like ebay. "Will haben" means "want to have".
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u/TrainingNail Brazil Aug 14 '21
iFood is Brazil’s doordash - works better than uber eats and other similar ones.
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u/sippher Aug 14 '21
Gojek;
It initially started as something like an Uber, but with motorcycles. Then it expanded to cars, taxis, limousines, big cars, and then to food ordering service, and then to a lot of services like massage, makeup, house-cleaning, house-moving, buying groceries, buying movie tickets, medical assistance, online shopping, and etc. It also has its own e-currency that works in a lot of physical vendors in malls & restaurants & gives a lot of discounts.
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u/ineednewheadphones Aug 14 '21
When I went to Indonesia it literally felt like this country wouldn't be able to function without Gojek. You can order just about anything there - food, transport, services
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u/popular_tiger India Aug 14 '21
In India we have a payments system called UPI (Unified Payments Interface) which is a form of mobile phone payments linked to your bank account and payments made with QR codes of phone numbers. Tons of fintech companies have apps for facilitating payments on this system, including Paytm, Google Pay, and PhonePe.
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u/Silver_Lotus Sweden Aug 14 '21
Swish! It's popular here because it's an agreement between banks that lets us consumers pay or transfer up to 15 000€ in an instant. The only thing you need is a "BankID" and the app "Swish".
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u/Whos_Sayin Turkey/USA Aug 15 '21
We have GittiGidiyor which is our eBay/Amazon.
There's ekşi sözlük which is a popular forum we site a little like Reddit but not really.
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u/SubArcticTundra Aug 14 '21
Here in the Czech Republic we have Seznam, which is a local competitor to Google that quite a lot of people use. (The name literally means 'list') http://seznam.cz http://mapy.cz