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Jayesh Jain
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Top 5 Popular Made in India social media applications

India has also taken a step in establishing itself as a market leader in the application development services sector. The following are some of the most popular social networking programmes available in India.

  1. Chingari
  2. Josh
  3. ShareChat
  4. Moj
  5. MX TakaTak

Chingari

Chingari is a short-video platform with its origins in India. It was officially introduced in the month of November of the year 2018. Sumit Ghosh and Biswatma Nayak, a mechanical engineer who became a programmer, started the company. It is a video-sharing and social networking tool that allows users to produce short videos and share them with others.

Chingari allows its users to create videos that include elements such as lip-syncing, dancing, and voice-over movie lines, among other things. The ban on TikTok has resulted in the app gaining a huge amount of popularity in India.

Rating: 4.1
Total Installs: 50 Million +

Josh

Josh is a short video platform with its base in India. It was launched by Dailyhunt. Dailyhunt is a content and daily news application based in Bangalore, India, that provides Indian content and news. It offers information in 14 different Indian languages. It was created by two ex-Nokia workers, Umesh Kulkarni and Chandrashekar Sohoni, who had previously worked together at Nokia.

Josh, a short video platform, offers short videos that are currently trending and becoming viral, which you can share with your social media followers. You may use the app to produce videos that are completely unique to you. Videos about dancing, music, comedy, jokes, and pranks may be found on the App. It also includes videos on a variety of topics such as challenges, pets, and cooking.

The Josh beauty camera is simple to use and includes real-time filters, facial stickers, special effects, a makeup camera, emojis, and other features. Josh even allows you to make Duet videos with other people. You may send the videos to your friends through WhatsApp or Facebook, and you can even make them your status update.

Rating: **4.1
**Total Installs:
100 Million +

ShareChat

ShareChat is an Indian social networking app. The app's parent company, Moohalla Tech Pvt. Ltd., developed it. It was initially made public in October 2015. ShareChat is available for Android and iOS through the GooglePlay store. Share Chat is accessible in 15 languages.

Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh, and Farid Ahsan, all IIT Kanpur alumni, created it. The creator claims this software has over 160 million monthly active users.

Private messaging is one of ShareChat's features. This service also enables you to tag other people in your videos. This network also allows you to share videos, jokes, music, and other language-based content with strangers.

Rating: 4.1
Total Installs: 100 Million +

Moj

Moj app is a video sharing social media platform operated by Mohalla Tech Private Ltd. Bhanu Pratap Singh & Farid Ahsan created Moj after the India-China conflict in 2020, TikTok and other Chinese applications were banned in India.

MoJ launched on June 29, 2020, and within two days had 50,000 downloads from Google Play. Its key features are unique effects and emojis for your videos. Comedy, education, dance, and acting are all possible video themes. The videos range from 15 seconds to 1 minute.

Rating: 4.3
Total Installs: 100 Million +

MX TakaTak

MX TakaTak is a short video social app developed in India, by MX Media & Entertainment. It is available on both iOS and Android devices. Watch various kinds of videos, including Dialogue Dubbing, Comedy, Gaming, Do It Yourself, Food, Sports, and Memes, among many others, at any time and from any location. The MX Takatak App is available in more than ten different languages.

In a transaction worth around $700 million, the parent firm of India's ShareChat will purchase the short-video platform MX TakaTak .

Rating: 4.5
Total Installs: 100 Million +

Other Indian social media Apps

  • Sandesh app
  • Koo app
  • Kutumb

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