With the growing number of smartphones, social networking apps are also mushrooming. Line, WhatsApp, Nimbuzz, Blackberry BBM are some of the successful few.
Wechat, launched by Chinese Company Tencent in 2011 is another entrant in the market and is already making its presence felt . It has already become the most downloaded non game app on iphone apps store in India in December 2013.
It is a social networking mobile app which supports one-to- one and one- to- many messaging and video conferencing. The messaging may be text, voice, image or video. It also allows free HD video calls and stores your messages and chat history. The app has access to your address book.
To make the full use of the app you have to get your friends /people in address book to download Wechat. Once installed, you can share messages and videos seamlessly. You can also have Live Chat with groups and invite other people into your chats using QR codes.
It has few really innovative and interesting features :
- Features Live Chat with Groups
- Supports HD Video Calls to other Wechat members
- Secure storage of messages and chat history so that you can retrieve them as required
- Broadcasting feature â€" one to many messaging
- Very easy to sign up via iTunes account
- Fully compatible with iOS7
- Always on, no logouts
- It is free
- Supports multiple languages
- Cross â€"plaform
- It is quite simple to chat with Wechat friends from a PC. You can easily switch from iphone to PC and continue your chat. Just open the site on your PC and scan the QR code and chat away.
- Another interesting feature is location based service. So if you are going to say a school reunion and want to know who among your Wechat friends have reached there, all you need to do is shake your phone and all those who have reached the venue will be visible on the list. How cool is that !
Its interface is similar to that of another popular social networking app â€" WhatsApp.
You may wonder if the app is for free then how does it make money. It sells the stickers which you can use to send messages. It is also looking at partnering with brands so that they can create official accounts and offer some discounts or priviliges to Wechat users. Offering paid games in future is also on the cards. After all it makes sense to launch your game on platform that is well recognised and has good audience base.
It might also help you to know that Tencent, the maker of Wechat has been one of the three Tech Companies to make it to the top four Tech Innovators of the year list by Forbes and the likes.
Originated as Weixin in China, Wechat is close behind the global leader WhatsApp. Though it remains to be seen how many WhatsApp users will convert to Wechat, the market is large enough & growing at a rapid space so there may be room for everyone.
Where to get WeChat:
You can get it your smartphones app store for free. Get it now and start inviting your family. =)
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