WeChat, created by Chinese investment company Tencent Holdings Limited, is one of the most downloaded applications for iOS devices in different parts of the world. This app was launched in India only last year. If you’re wondering why this has become very popular in the country given the many other competitors, there are actually loads of features and benefits that the app offers and some of them are enumerated below.
WeChat: Very Helpful Voice Messaging Feature
This is well loved by many smartphone users because they like the idea of not needing to type when trying to communicate with their friends and loved ones. They only have to speak to the screen of the app, hold and send their messages then reply after the other person has talked back.
More Stickers to Express Emotions
What’s more to like about the WeChat messaging service which is not available in other mobile apps is its millions of stickers to choose from helping users to easily express their emotions in a cool and funny way. Since India has lots of special events and festivals, there are lots of thematic stickers available too that are especially designed for their use. Among those festivals that India celebrates are Independence Day, Holi or Friendship Day and Diwali.
Availability of Official Accounts
For those who haven’t heard about such a feature before, Official Accounts is a feature which allows Big Bazaar, Channel V India, PVR Cinemas, AskMe, Hungama Music and Café Coffee Day users to communicate with their friends who are also using the application. The feature makes it easy for the users to view trailers as well as behind the scene clips of the most popular Bollywood movies.
Friends Radar Features
It’s very important that the user and her friends are using the WeChat app for them to be able to use the Friends Radar feature. The mobile app checks surrounding areas detect if the friends of the user are just nearby and then notify her. Once notified and the user would like to start a conversation with a friend nearby, all the user needs to do is tap the name of the other person.
Private Groups
Users who do not wish to have their conversations with friends read by others take advantage of the apps feature. The feature allows creation of private groups where chats are only seen by chosen friends provided that they are given the passcode for access to the group.
There you have a few features and benefits of WeChat that are convincing enough to make lots of users download the app not only in India but in other countries too. Other than the ones already mentioned, this app also offers other cool features like Real Time Location Sharing, Translate Message and Cloud Storage.