No issue if the Government of India has banned TikTok among 59 Chinese mobile phone apps, people in the country have now begun downloading the ‘Chingari’ app developed by two Bengaluru-based programmers, including Biswatma Nayak, who hails from Cuttack.
Founded last year by Nayak and Siddharth Gautam and Sumit Ghosh, the app is now recording about 1 lakh downloads with nearly 2 million viewers per hour.
According to Nayak, many investors are showing interest in the Chingari app so as to scale up this free-of-cost social platform. Industrialist Anand Mahindra has downloaded and appreciated the app.
The Chingari app is available in several languages like English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. It is available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Several people say that the Government has rightly banned the TikTok app, which has been spying on users and sending back the data to China.