KakaoTalk

Pros

• Over 200 million users worldwide
• User base boasts a mostly Korean, Chinese, and Japanese user following
• Hundreds of stickers and anime packs
• Fully customizable ring tones, notifications, bell tones, chat group colors, and members
• Pairs with mobile and computer devices
• Ability to live chat one on one or in groups
• Recent updates have added live streaming feature for friends

Cons

• Some users are unable to display phone notifications on their computer

Kakao Talk is a free, international app available for most major operating systems on phones and computers. The app boasts a huge East Asian user base, including many users from Korea, China, and Japan.

The app is an easy to use, zero cost messenger that re-conceptualizes the standard chat app. Users can make chatting fun by using downloaded and prepackaged arrays of emoticons and sticker packs. More than 200 million users worldwide regularly use Kakao Talk to get in touch with their family and friends.

Conveniently, the app syncs chats with the users' mobile device, meaning that friends all over the world are never too far for a chat. Users can talk one on one, in a group, and at any time of day or night, without absolutely zero fees.

Users can easily keep their account secure using remote logout. By tapping the 'lock mode' on their mobile device, users can keep the associated Kakao app on their computer secure and vice versa.

The app rolls out with new features all the time: live talk, sharing personal live video streams, fun ring tones, and reply notifications have all been added recently. There are an endless number of ways that users can customize their Kakao app to work with their chatting and video calling habits, giving individual friends and chat groups their own ringtone noise.

Some users have trouble syncing their computer device data to their mobile Kakao talk information. When users receive a notification on their phone, the same notification on their computer sometimes shows up as "Unable to display notification". This error depends entirely on the users' operating system and how recently they've updated their computer. Unfortunately, Kakao Talk doesn't mesh well with some computer configurations and firewalls which may block certain notifications.

Pros

• Over 200 million users worldwide
• User base boasts a mostly Korean, Chinese, and Japanese user following
• Hundreds of stickers and anime packs
• Fully customizable ring tones, notifications, bell tones, chat group colors, and members
• Pairs with mobile and computer devices
• Ability to live chat one on one or in groups
• Recent updates have added live streaming feature for friends

Cons

• Some users are unable to display phone notifications on their computer