Mitron, Chingari, ShareChat — here are few alternatives to banned Chinese apps in India
The government banned 59 Chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as TikTok, Helo, and WeChat, to counter the threat posed by these applications to the country's “sovereignty and security,” it said in a press release late on Monday. This decision comes when the nationwide protest to boycott Chinese products.
In this article, we will list a few alternatives for the banned Chinese apps across different categories.
Mitron
Mitron app Launched in April 20120 by Shivank Agarwal and Anish Khandelwal to counter the TikTok.It is a short-form video platform world similar to TikTok within a month it is downloaded by more than 5 million peoples in India.
Chingari
Chingari is another app developed by Indian entrepreneurs and the makers of Chinagri claim that they will pay according to content and how much the video gets viral and will be more rewarding than the Chinese app TikTok.
According to the platform, the short video-sharing app reached the milestone from 550,000 downloads in 10 days. Earlier, it had garnered about 500,000 downloads in about 72 hours.
You can download the Chingari app for free from the Google Play Store and iOS App Store.
It is available in multiple languages, including English, Hindi, Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu.
ShareChat
ShareChat is an Indian regional social media platform developed by Mohalla Tech.
Private Limited. Founded by Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh, and Farid Ahsan, ShareChat has over 60 million monthly active users.
Google Chrome And Mozilla firefox
Both apps widely used for browsing both in mobile and computers . Google chrome is preinstalled in all the Android devices.
Inshorts For News
Inshorts is a popular news app that selects the latest news from multiple national and international sources and summarises them to present in a short and crisp 60 words or less format, personalized in both English and Hindi.
Clash of Clans
Clash of Clans is a freemium mobile strategy video game developed and published by Finnish game developer Supercell. The game was available both on iOS and Android devices.
The Indian government on Monday banned 59 mobile apps, including China's TikTok, ShareIt, and WeChat, terming them prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity, and national security of the country.
In an official statement, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said it has received many complaints from various sources, including several reports about the misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users' data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India.
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