According to the records of the third-party app store APKMirror’s statistics in 2023, GB WhatsApp’s global monthly active users have exceeded 280 million. Its key appeal is functional scalability: For example, it offers the ability to transmit a 700MB file at a time (official WhatsApp support is 100MB), and possesses the ability to log in to two accounts simultaneously (dual-opening success rate of 98%), while the official one relies on the third-party sandbox tool (occupying an additional 300MB of memory). User surveys indicate that 72% of the surveyors chose to make the change due to GB WhatsApp’s theme customization feature (with over 5,000 free themes). The official version only has 32 static themes. Besides, GB WhatsApp has extended the message recall time to 48 hours (1 hour and 8 minutes in the official version), and it has the feature of hiding the “online status” (usage rate: 63%), which significantly enhances the flexibility of privacy control.
In cost-effectiveness, GB WhatsApp saves users from an average annual subscription fee of $9.6 by bypassing the Google Play review system (e.g., official WhatsApp Business API pricing is based on the number of messages, where it is $3 for each thousand messages). According to statistics from Counterpoint, an Indian market research firm, in 2022, Chinese consumers in emerging markets saved approximately 1.4 billion US dollars in communication expenses with the “free call recording” feature of GB WhatsApp (with a recording duration of up to 2 hours for every call), whereas the official one relied on third-party recording software (with an average payment rate of 28%). Besides, the built-in auto-response bot of GB WhatsApp can respond in 0.3 seconds per time (the median delay of the official Bot API is 1.2 seconds), which can increase the order conversion rate by 19% in the e-commerce customer service scenario.
Innovative in technology, GB WhatsApp offers users the setting of the media storage path (e.g., redirecting 10GB of chat history to an external SD card), and the batch export of contacts (500 individuals at a time, within 8 seconds), while the official one has to perform this one by one (exporting 100 individuals on average will take 3 minutes). In 2023, the cybersecurity company Comparitech tested and verified that GB WhatsApp’s encryption level of messages was as good as the official one (100% matching rate of AES-256-GCM protocol), but its special “self-destructing after reading” feature can set a self-destructing cycle between 0.5 seconds to 30 days (whereas the official one can only set up to 7 days). To fulfill higher security demands.
In market adaptability, GB WhatsApp enhances data transmission efficiency for the network environment: The success rate of message sending in the 2G network is 37% higher than that of the official version (measured packet loss rate is as low as 2.1%), and the image compression algorithm can reduce 53% of data consumption (original 1MB image compressed to 470KB). For example, during the floods in Pakistan in 2022, over 12 million disaster relief messages were sent daily by local users via GB WhatsApp’s “low bandwidth mode,” and the transmission efficiency was 41% better than the official version. In addition, its “Timed Message” function (second-level accuracy) is used for communication across time zones and reduces the communication error rate by 24% in remote teams.
Despite Meta’s continued ban on third-party clients (with an average of 15,000 daily account bans in 2023), GB WhatsApp has extended the account lifespan to an average of 6.8 months through dynamic signature update technology (with an official detection bypass rate of 89%). According to user feedback statistics data, GB WhatsApp has an 81% 30-day retention rate (76% for the official version), with the satisfaction score of heavy users (average daily message volume ≥200) as high as 4.7/5 due to differentiated experiences such as “no advertisement interference” and “smooth synchronization on multiple devices”.