Top 9 India-Made Social Media Apps

Following the ban on the use of TikTok and other Chinese applications in India, Indian-based social media apps have seen a surge in popularity both in India and abroad. The country's Prime Minister has been urging citizens to switch to Indian-based apps in order to help achieve what we call "Atma Nirbhar Bharat," the PM's ambition of making India self-sufficient.

ShareChat is a social media application that originated in India. The company's headquarters are in Bangalore, India, and it's a social networking service. The app was developed by Mohalla Tech Pvt. Ltd, the parent company. In the month of October 2015, it was first released. ShareChat is available for Android and iOS users at the GooglePlay store. In 15 different languages, you can utilize Share Chat.

Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh, and Farid Ahsan, all of whom attended IIT Kanpur, founded the company. Around 160 million people utilize this mobile application each month.

Private messaging is one of the functions of ShareChat. This platform also allows you to tag persons in videos. You can also share social content with strangers, such as videos, jokes, music, and other language-based stuff, through this platform.

Mohalla tech, ShareChat's parent business, has made some social media acquisitions. Elanic, a Bengaluru-based online fashion bazaar, Member, a meme discovery and sharing network, and Circle Internet, a hyperlocal information portal, are among the tech-owned short video platforms. All of the platforms mentioned above were purchased for an undisclosed sum.

Ku Koo Ku was the app's previous name. Aprameya Radhakrishna, the application's current CEO, and Mayank Bidawatka co-founded it. The app won the Atmanirbhar App Innovation Challenge of the Indian government in August 2020.

The app won the Aatmanirbhar App Challenge, a competition sponsored by the Indian government to encourage indigenous innovation. While Koo shares many of Twitter's features, it also allows users to publish in languages other than Hindi.

The fact that Koo is available in a variety of Indian languages is one of its selling points. Its website states that it aims to "engage with Indians in Indian languages." Koo is a web-based application that may be used on a PC or a mobile device (app). Users may sign up using their phone number, and it's available in the Google Play and Apple App Stores. Koo now supports the following languages: English, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi, and Telegu. According to their website, they are working on adding support for Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Malayalam, Punjabi, and Assamese. A user can type up to 400 characters of text, which is more than the 280-character limit on Twitter. Koo also supports all multimedia features, such as audio and video recording.

The short-video platform Chingari is based in India. In November of 2018, it was released. It's a video-sharing and social networking service that allows users to make short videos.

Chingari allows users to produce films with elements such as lip-syncing, dancing, and voice-over movie dialogues, among other things. TikTok has gained a lot of popularity in India as a result of its ban.

Josh is a short video platform with a focus on India. Dailyhunt released it in September of the year 2020. Dailyhunt is a Bangalore-based content and news app. It has 14 Indian languages with the material. It was started by two ex-Nokia workers, Umesh Kulkarni and Chandrashekar Sohoni. In 2010, it was first released.

Josh, a short video platform, provides popular and viral short videos that you can share with your social media followers. You can make your own videos with the app. Videos about dancing, music, humor, jokes, and pranks are available in the app. Videos on various challenges, pets, and cookery are also available.

Josh beauty camera with real-time filters, face stickers, special effects, makeup camera, emojis, and other features are available in the mobile application. Josh also allows you to make duet videos. You can use the videos to update your status on WhatsApp or Facebook.

Josh is the most popular app in India for short films. Dailyhunt views the launch of this platform as the first step toward the release of further apps in the future.

Flik is social media software that aims to make conversing a more engaging experience. The app has a function that is a cross between social media and dating apps. It was started on September 10th, 2019 by Bahadursinh Jadeja. Loopytime Pvt. Ltd. is the parent company behind this mobile app.

Flik allows you to make new friends. Flik aids in the discovery of new acquaintances and the expansion of your network. It also offers a dating aspect, where you can match with someone who shares your interests using the app. Flik can also be thought of as a dating app.

Flik is one of the few mobile apps that combine social media and dating functionality into a single app. In Hindi, the app is available. Personal messaging, video and voice conversations and audio messages are just a few of the options available. Flik allows you to add live tales to your content and helps you share it with your friends.

You may exchange files in any format, including pdf, ppt, word, mp3, excel, Apk, zip, and more, with Flik. Flik is a film that is only suitable for people aged 18 and up. It has since had over 10,000 downloads on Google Play. The software is 12 MB in size and is accessible on Google Play.

ShareChat, which is owned by Mohalla Tech Private Ltd, is the parent business of Moj app, a social media platform for video sharing. Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh, and Farid Ahsan started Moj in the year 2000. It was discovered shortly after TikTok and other Chinese apps were blocked in India following the 2020 India-China conflict.

MoJ began its adventure on June 29, 2020, and within two days, the Google Play Store had received 50 thousand downloads. Special effects, emoticons to utilize in your movies, and other elements are among the most prominent. Comedy, education, dancing, and acting are all examples of video genres that can be developed. The videos might range from 15 seconds to one minute in length.

The app is available in 15 languages and has over 100 million downloads as of January 20, 2021. It brings in $102 million in income in the year 2012.

Shivank Agarwal and Anish Khandelwal are set to debut Mitron on April 11, 2020. It's a video-sharing program that lets you make, edit, and share videos. It can simply fit into your phone space thanks to its small size of 26 Mb.

A great range of transitions and unique effects are among the options available. Aside from that, users can edit their films to their hearts' content, and there are many different sorts of audio to choose from and incorporate into their videos. It's a free app. More than 15 types of information are available in the app. In India's short video content ecosystem, this app is immensely popular.

Leher is a social networking site in India that offers audio and video chat rooms. Atul Jaju and Vikas Malpani co-founded the company in August of 2018. It's a real-time discussion platform where you and your friends may discuss any issue. You can also participate in a discussion about a topic that interests you.

It's easier to communicate with the audience because you can do live Q&A, surveys, and send direct messages to the people you want to reach out to. The host of a discussion can invite and invite others to engage in the debate.

 Users can also get stickers and Emoji reactions to make the conversation more entertaining.

Leher's app is worth $3.8 million as of 2019. It's a rival to Clubhouse.

Kutumb is a social networking website that was developed in 2020 by Abhishek Kejriwal and Mohit Sharma. This program allows users to communicate with others and exchange photographs, videos, news, and other content. All of this can be done in the regional language of your choice.

During the second Covid outbreak, numerous NGOs used the Kutumb app to gather money to aid those who had been affected by the virus and its severe consequences.

There are numerous additional well-known Indian-based social media apps, with many more on the way. Some apps include Houseparty, a messaging network, Trell, a Pinterest-like app, Helo, Vero, two social media platforms, and more.