Asia’s biggest consumer platforms aren’t single products. WeChat, Grab, Gojek, Kakao and Naver bundle messaging, payments, transport, food, commerce and financial services into one app, and Sea Group runs e-commerce, gaming and a digital bank under one roof. How they make money, and where they compete, explains much of the region’s digital economy.
This hub brings together Digital in Asia’s profiles and comparisons of Asia’s super apps and platform companies, from Southeast Asia to China, Korea and Vietnam.
How super apps work
- Asia’s Super Apps: The Business Models Behind WeChat, Grab and Gojek
How do super apps like WeChat, Grab, and Alipay serve 3.5 billion users? The business model, flywheel economics, and four-layer revenue stack explained. - How Grab and Sea Group Are Building AI-Powered Super Apps
Grab and Sea Group are embedding AI across ride-hailing, e-commerce, fintech, and food delivery to serve 700 million Southeast Asian consumers. Inside the AI strategies of SEA's two dominant super-app platforms.
Southeast Asia
- Grab’s Business Model: How SEA’s Super App Makes Money
Grab business model: how SEA's super app turned mobility, deliveries, and financial services into $873M Q3 2025 revenue. Inside the unit economics. - GoJek’s Ecosystem: Indonesia’s Original Super App
Gojek ecosystem: Indonesia's original super app holds ~20% mobility share, runs 20+ services on the GoTo platform. Inside the stack. - Grab vs GoJek vs Be: A 2026 Comparison of Southeast Asia’s Super App Leaders
Grab GoJek Be: who wins SEA's super app war? Grab leads with 200M MAUs and $873M Q3 revenue. Inside the three-way contest. - Inside Sea Group: Ecommerce, Gaming, Payments and AI
Sea Group closed 2025 with $22.94B revenue, $9.2B Monee loan book, and a Google AI partnership. Inside Shopee, Garena, Monee. - VNG Corporation: Inside Vietnam’s Gaming, Messaging and Fintech Ecosystem
VNG holds an estimated 55% of Vietnam's gaming market — up from 24.5% in 2020. The real story of Vietnam's domestic champion, fact-checked.
China
- Tencent: $603B Tech Giant Connecting 1.4B Users
Tencent tech giant: $603B market cap, 1.4B WeChat users, and a gaming + fintech + AI stack defining Chinese digital. - ByteDance’s Global Business: TikTok, Douyin, Commerce and AI
ByteDance Beijing: $550B private valuation after Feb 2026 General Atlantic stake sale. $186B FY24 revenue and TikTok's US restructure. - Qwen AI: Alibaba’s Android-of-AI Ecosystem Play
Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's family of large language models — and, by the numbers that matter for an ecosystem, the most consequential open-source AI family in the world. As of …
Korea
- Kakao Super App: How a Chat App Became Korea’s OS
Kakao super app: how KakaoTalk's 49M users power banking, mobility, gaming and content — and why Naver vs Kakao defines Korean digital. - Naver: How Korea’s Search Giant Built a Platform Empire
Naver platform empire: how Korea's search giant turned 23 trillion won Q4 2025 payments into a fintech, e-commerce and content stack. - Naver vs Kakao: A 2026 Comparison of Korea’s Two Digital Platform Empires
Naver Kakao: Korea's two digital empires compared. $17B vs $5B payment volumes. Inside the rivalry. - What is Toss? How a Simple App Built Korea’s 30 Million-User Fintech Platform
Toss fintech: Viva Republica turned a P2P payments app into Korea's 30M-user financial super app, eyeing a $10-15B IPO. - Coupang Logistics: How Korea’s Amazon Built Same-Day
Coupang logistics: how Korea's Amazon built same-day delivery to 99% of South Korea with 100+ fulfilment centres and $5B in capex.