5 standout features of the most popular messaging (IM) apps around

Good set of features.

Whatsapp has support for desktop as well (its 3rd party tho). You can download the chrome extension.

Viber in my experience is such a big scam. After signing up and putting $20 into the account for international calls, I quickly realized that the voice quality wasn't up to par and that i had constant disconnects, I called to cancel my account and was told that i could do that via the mobile app which I did but they refused to refund me the remaining $17 because it had been over 2 month since my last use of the App. All that and that I was bombarded with unwanted ads on my mobile app not to mention their horrible customer service, a pretty s**tty company overall.

I am looking for a good Yahoo messenger replacement (an app that can support Yahoo's messaging protocol), can someone point me to a good one? I am not looking to the usual suspects like IM+, FLiPSi

and Telegram is available for Android, iPhone/iPad, Widows Phone (the new Windows Mobile), it's available for OS X, PC and Linux... and most importatly it's web based too, so it's the most independent from them all, cuase you can use it on any browser.

i use gif message on messenger a lot, thats is very funny :)

BBM has more features than any other I'm there! You did not even mention "timed message" and others Wechat too has some mad features including video calling.

For me it is Whatsapp - Hangouts - Facebook.... Ubiquity and calls - Video and regular calls, desktop use - Floating heads on Android (plus all the contacts that I don't have a phone number)

I've been using telegram for about 4 month now. It's getting better and better with every new update. Maybe the best feature for me is accessing all my chats frow it's website when my phone's not around. You can access your account from any device, anywhere, and all your chats (except secret chats) will be instantly synced. And the worst thing would be lack of video/audio call.

I really like hike. It has few unique and useful features that no other messengers have.

Definitely Hike.... Use it..u will forget others. Stickers, offline messages, send any file up 100 mb, chat with out internet with hike direct. get embedded NEWS , latest scores Get coupons etc. I don't know why its not listed here.

This is my favourite apps in order Viber, Whatsapp, Hike, Facebook messenger, Telegram, BBM, Line, Wechat. find Hike and discover the glory of chatting, I just think hike is powerful but not as popular as some of these its just a metter of time before everyone starts adopting it.