Indian-based social media apps have seen a rise in the country and worldwide, after the prohibition of the usage of TikTok and some other Chinese apps in India. The Prime Minister of the country has been asking the citizens to shift their usage to Indian-based apps to work towards what we envision as an "Atma Nirbhar Bharat" which is the vision of the PM to make India a self-reliant nation.
Here are some of the best Indian based Social media apps which you can use.
Popular Social Media Apps Made in India
Popular Social Media Apps Made in India
Here are 9 best Indian social media app people can use.
Sharechat
ShareChat is an Indian Social Media app. It is a social networking service and the headquarters is situated in Bangalore, India. Mohalla Tech Pvt. Ltd is the parent company and they were the ones who developed the app. Its initial release was during the month of October 2015. ShareChat is available in the GooglePlay and also for iOS users. You can use Share Chat in 15 different languages.
The company was started by Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh, and Farid Ahsan, who were graduates of IIT Kanpur. This Mobile Application has around 160 Million monthly active users.
ShareChat offers features that include private messaging. You can even tag people in videos using this platform. This platform also allows you to share social content with other unknown users such as videos, jokes, songs, and other language-based content.
ShareChat’s parent company Mohalla tech has acquired some social media companies. Transversal is a tech-owned short video platform, Elanic which is a Bengaluru-based online fashion marketplace, Member which is a meme discovery and sharing platform, and Circle Internet which is a hyperlocal information platform. All the above platforms were acquired for undisclosed amounts.
Koo
The app was earlier known as Ku Koo Ku. It was founded by Aprameya Radhakrishna who is the current CEO of the application and Mayank Bidawatka. In August 2020, the app won the Government of India's Atmanirbhar App Innovation Challenge.
The app won the Aatmanirbhar App Challenge, which was organised by the Indian government to foster local innovation. While Koo has many of the same capabilities as Twitter, it also lets users publish in Indian languages other than Hindi.
One of Koo's selling advantages is that it is available in numerous Indian languages. "To connect with Indians in Indian languages," it says on its website. Koo can be used on a computer (website) or on a mobile device (app). It's available in the Google Play and Apple App Stores, and users may sign up with their phone number. Currently, English, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi, and Telegu are supported by Koo. Support for Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Malayalam, Punjabi, and Assamese is also in the pipeline, according to their website. A user can write up to 400 characters of text, which is higher than Twitter's limit of 280 characters. All multimedia functions, including audio and video recording, are likewise supported by Koo.
Chingari
Chingari is an Indian-based short-video platform. It was launched in the year 2018 in the month of November. It is a video-sharing and social networking service where the users can create short videos.
Chingari lets its users create videos that provide features to lip-sync, dance, voice-over movie dialogues, etc. The ban of TikTok has led this app to gain a lot of popularity in India.
Josh
Josh is an Indian-based short video platform It was launched in the year 2020 in September by Dailyhunt. Dailyhunt is an Indian content and daily news application which is located in Bangalore, India. It provides content in 14 Indian languages. It was founded by Umesh Kulkarni and Chandrashekar Sohoni who were ex-Nokia employees. It was released initially in the year 2010.
The short video platform, Josh has short videos which are trending and viral that you can share with your followers. The app lets you create your unique videos. The App has videos on dance, music, comedy, jokes and pranks. It also has videos on various challenges, pets, cooking.
The Mobile application has an easy-to-use Josh beauty camera with real-time filters, face stickers, special effects, makeup camera, emojis. Etc. You can even create Duet videos on Josh. You can share the videos on WhatsApp or Facebook and you can set it as your status.
Josh is India’s number 1 Short videos app. The launch of this platform is considered to be the next step by Dailyhunt to release more apps in the future.
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Flik
Flik is a social media app that is trying to change the experience of chatting by making it much more enjoyable. The app provides a feature that is a mixture of a social media app and a dating app. It was founded by Bahadursinh Jadeja and launched on the year 10th of September 2019. The parent company of this mobile application is Loopytime Pvt. Ltd.
You can connect with new people using Flik. Flik helps you in finding friends and increasing your contact. It has an additional feature which is for dating and you can match with a like-minded person on the app. Flik can be considered a dating app as well.
Flik is one of the few mobile applications that provide features such as social media and dating in a single platform. The app can be used in Hindi. It provides features such as personal messaging, video calls and voice calls, audio messages, etc. If you would like to add live stories of the content Flik allows you to do that, flik helps you to share it with your friends.
Flik allows you to share files in any format such as pdf, ppt, word, mp3, excel, Apk, zip, and much more. Flik is rated for 18+. It has 10K+ downloads on the Play store. The app is available in the Play store and the size is 12 MB.
Moj
Moj app is a social media platform for video sharing and its parent company is ShareChat that is owned by Mohalla Tech Private Ltd. Moj was founded by Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh, and Farid Ahsan. It was found immediately after TikTok along with other Chinese apps was banned in India after the India-China situation in 2020.
MoJ began its journey from 29 June 2020 and in just two days 50 thousands downloads were made from the Google Play Store. The main features that it offers are special effects, emoticons to use on your videos and others. Different genres of videos can be made like comedy, education, dancing and acting. The duration of the videos can be of 15 seconds to 1 minute.
The app supports 15 languages and in January 2021, it has crossed 100 million downloads.In 20121, it generates $102 Million in revenue.
Mitron
Mitron is launched by Shivank Agarwal and Anish Khandelwal on Apirl 11, 2020. It is a video sharing app that provides you with the feature of creating, editing and sharing your videos. With just a size of 26 Mb it can easily get fit into your phone space without any problem.
The features that the offers include cool range of transition, special effects. Apart from that the users can edit their videos as per their requirement and there are various types of audio to choose from and can be used in your video. The app is free. The app offers more 15 categories for content. This app is very popular in the Indian Short video content ecosystem.
Leher
Leher is an India Social networking platform that provides rooms for audio and video discussion. It was founded in the year 2018 on the month of August by Atul Jaju and Vikas Malpani. It is a live discussing platform and any topic can be discussed here with your community and friends. You can also join the discussion of your favourite topic here.
It easier to interact with the audience and one can do live Q&A, polls comments and one can also sent direct message to the person they want to. The person who is hosting a discussion and invite other people of their choice in the discussion and can ask them to participate in it. Stickers and Emoji reactions are also offered to the users to make the discussion more fun
As of 2019, the value of Leher app is $3.8 Million. It is a competitor of the Clubhouse app.
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Kutumb
Kutumb was founded in the year 2020 by Abhishek Kejriwal and Mohit Sharma and is a social networking platform. Through this app, one can get connected with people from their communication and can share images, videos, news and other things. All of these can be done in your choice of regional languages.
During the time Covid's second, through the help of Kutumb app, many NGOs collected donations to help those who are the victims of Covid and its drastic effects.
Conclusion
There are a lot of other famous Indian-based Social Media Apps and we can find a lot more apps coming up in the future. Some apps like Houseparty a messaging platform, Trell which is similar to Pinterest, Helo and Vero social media platforms, and many more.
Every second, someone registers on one of these social media sites. If you haven't visited these websites yet, now is the time to do so. It has been downloaded over 12 million times since its formation. As of 2021, its valuation is $176 Million.
FAQ
What is the first Indian social media app?
Bharatam is India's first own Social Networking platform. It is a platform of the Indians, by the Indians, and for the Indians.
How many Indian apps are there in India?
There are more than 161,022 apps from Indian publishers on Google Play.
Which apps are banned in India?
Some apps that are banned in India are:
- TikTok
- Shareit
- Kwai
- UC Browser
- Baidu map
- Shein
- Clash of Kings
- DU battery saver
What are the Indian Social Media Apps?
Some popular Indian social media apps are:
- Sharechat
- Koo
- Chingari
- Josh
- Flik
- Moj
- Mitron
- Leher
- Kutumb