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Last week, Facebook proclaimed that it had noninheritable  electronic communication tool WhatsApp for $16 billion. The acquisition signalled the definitive failure of Facebook’s own traveller app, further because the social media giant’s encroach upon territories it might solely conquer by shopping for its “rivals” out. So, for this time period, here area unit 3 alternative apps (all free) like WhatsApp that you just will look out for.

Line
For the untrained  eye, Line is WhatsApp. however the a lot of you utilize it, you realise that Line is WhatsApp that’s been thought through unto a grander kind. aside from rental you chat together with your friends in an exceedingly distraction free atmosphere (and conjointly privately mode), Line incorporates a slew of alternative wonderful options that — unobtrusively — build your electronic communication expertise a lot of spirited.

There is a fashionable sort of stuff you'll purchase from inside the app — like Line stickers, that appear a hot market — and sell to alternative friends. you'll conjointly purchase themes.

If you register the app on your phone together with your email ID, you'll log in to Line from your computer or raincoat and access electronic communication services from the cloud, visit chat logs, and maintain your friends list.

Kik
Kik doesn’t need your number for you to induce involved together with your friends. Instead, merely install the app and add friends with their email IDs or alternative contact info, like their Open IDs. offered for iOS, Android, Blackberry (on that it had been launched in 2009) and Windows Phone eight, Kik conjointly comes with a inherent browser to access net apps. Imagine having the ability to faucet into a Soundcloud song that you just will hear together with your buddies...

Tango
Tango is really a closeted social network masquerading as a electronic communication app. It offers constant practicality as WhatsApp (and conjointly has includes Line’s ability to access your messages from a desktop browser), on the other hand it goes a step ahead and offers voice calls, video calls, in-app purchases, games, and photo-sharing.

It doesn’t finish there. If you’re in an exceedingly place wherever Spotify the music-streaming platform is active, you'll share songs and discuss them together with your friends from inside the app itself owing to some bully integration. Moreover, Tango conjointly helps you create new friends by suggesting folks near  with similar interests as you.

It’s offered for all platforms except Blackberry.