If You Want to Launch Your Messaging App, India is the Market You Should Tap In India, messaging app users are expected to grow by more than 24.0% this year to top 133 million.

By Nidhi Singh

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Instant messaging apps are used by a lot of businesses even by some of the larger ones. The market for dedicated messaging apps may seem overcrowded these days, but demand for such apps continues to grow. And this is where it sets a new opportunity for entrepreneurs innovating in the messaging world.

India, the second-largest market for messaging apps, is the fastest growing market. In India, messaging app users are expected to grow by more than 24.0% this year to top 133 million.

Today the messaging apps are big business and its success lies on various One of the recent trends for messaging apps is its implementation for various tasks, including business ones. For businesses, messaging apps acts as a medium to directly communicate with their consumers.

These 4 messaging app startups and their apps set a standard for those who are looking to launch their own.

The Made In India Chat Application

Indian Messenger is chat application just like WhatsApp type with additional features. It uses your phone's Internet connection to message and call friends and family. It has some unique features like send unlimited files of unlimited size, add unlimited members to group,send stickers and much more

All Communication Together At One Place

Nimbuzz headed by IIT Delhi graduate Vikas Saxena , is a messaging platform which provides a wide range of easy-to-use, and mostly free, ways to communicate via a computer or mobile device. The platform provides a rill-range of features including voice calls (even to landlines and mobile phones, for a fee), group.

Messaging App For Enterprises

Teamchat is a messaging app for enterprises. It enables unlimited messaging among teams of any size, by structuring the messages to reduce clutter.This messaging app is designed to make business team communication more efficient and productive.

Public And Private Messaging

Gupshup Technologies's new social messaging mobile app, called GupShup Messenger, is a universal messaging app, which works across both SMS and data.It has several features like public and private messaging in which users can seamlessly switch and easily share messages with followers and friends respectively.

Nidhi Singh

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