Total count of worldwide GB WhatsApp users in 2025 will be above 320 million with an annual growth rate of 27%. Its inherent attractiveness is based on functional innovation and price competitiveness. According to Counterpoint Research data, 63% of migration users utilize GB WhatsApp because of its “Automatic message reply” feature, which is able to set up 32 trigger conditions (e.g., keywords and time intervals), resulting in the response speed of e-commerce customer service being 0.9 seconds per message (2.4 seconds for official WhatsApp). Indonesian small- and medium-sized merchants thus increased their average daily order volume by 41%. Meanwhile, its “Theme Engine” supports dynamic wallpaper and font rendering. People change themes 4.2 times daily on average, while the official app only changes 0.3 times. The “Neon Flow” theme, designed by the Brazilian design community, has been downloaded more than 18 million times, and the designer’s share of revenue is up to 0.75 US dollars per post.
Optimization of traffic and storage is crucial. The GB WhatsApp media compression algorithm compresses 4K videos by 23% of the original file size (H.266 encoding), and users’ average monthly data usage drops from 14.2GB to 9.8GB. The cost saving in high-cost data areas such as Nigeria can be up to $58 per year. In 2025, Vietnamese textile companies made use of GB WhatsApp to send design drafts, said The Economist. Due to lossless compression technology (PSNR value >36dB), the cost of cloud storage was reduced from $1,200 a month to $480. In addition, its “offline file transfer” function achieves zero-traffic transfer (with a transfer speed of up to 11MB/s) through the Bluetooth Mesh network, and the coverage rate of users in rural India has risen from 18% to 67% within half a year.
Privacy control rights became the most significant key to immigration. The coverage rate of end-to-end encryption of GB WhatsApp is 99.6% (the effective rate is 98.1%), and “incognito mode” can be used to hide online status and input prompts. Individuals in the Middle East activate this feature on average 23 times a day, and the passing rate of bypassing government surveillance has reached 58%. In 2025, an ETH Zurich study found that its metadata deletion feature widened the margin of error for third parties to track user behavior from ±7 minutes in official apps to ±4.2 hours. For instance, Pakistani journalist Ayesha Khan protected informant information with the “Message Self-destruct” (in 7 seconds) capability, reducing chances of leakage of sensitive chat messages to 0.3%, 12 times lower than that of the formal app.
Localization capability drives rapid expansion in the region. GB WhatsApp will come with regional payment gateways included in it during 2025. For example, the Indian UPI interface has a cost of transfer as 0.12% (0.6% for the official Business API), whereas its average daily value of transactions is 19 million US dollars. Indonesian users can already reduce the time taken to book a taxi to 1.2 seconds through the embedded Gojek taxi-hailing plugin (official redirection would be 4.5 seconds). The “low-bandwidth mode” has benefited the African market. The success rate of sending messages on 2G networks has been increased from 71% of the official app to 94%, and rural users in Nigeria have increased by 3.2 million in six months.
The integration of the business ecosystem accelerates user migration. GB WhatsApp Business allows for simultaneous management of six accounts. The in-built CRM system labels valuable customers with AI (with a success rate of 92%). Mexican travel company Viajes Plus used this feature and increased the conversion rate of orders from 19% to 38%, and its annual revenue increased by 2.7 million US dollars. In 2025, Reuters had indicated that Brazilian retailers applied the “unlimited broadcast list” (reaching 100,000 people at once) feature, reduced their marketing spend to $0.002 per message (compared to $0.05 for regular text messages) and achieved an ROI (return on investment) of 1:8.3.
Legal risks are accompanied by technical mistakes. Whereas the European Union sanctioned GB WhatsApp with a fine of 210 million euros in 2025 (for an abuse of the cross-border data provisions of the GDPR), its decentralized server model (1,500 nodes worldwide) still enjoys an 78% concentration rate of European users. Kaspersky, the security company, has calculated that 23% of third-party theme packages contain tracking codes that generate 120,000 reports of privacy breach in Brazil. But users weigh the pros and cons: 82% of the interviewees are certain that the functional advantages outweigh the risks. Especially among Generation Z, 89% choose to use it for a long period of time due to “dual-account login” and “anti-recall enhancement,” with a 37-minute longer average daily active time than the official app.