9 INNOVATIVE APPS MAKING THEIR MARK IN INDIA AND BEYOND
Entrepreneur magazine|September 2022
As Google Play completes 10 years, we're seeing India evolve from a leading app consumption country to also an emerging app development hub. Here are examples of 10 creative apps from Google's recent growth program in India that are building diverse solutions across emerging themes on Play - such as mental health, agri-tech, learning - making their mark in India and across the world.
9 INNOVATIVE APPS MAKING THEIR MARK IN INDIA AND BEYOND

1 Gratitude

DEVELOPER: Hapjoy Technologies

LISTED ON PLAY: March, 2018

Gratitude is a self-care journal that interestingly started off as a personal gratitude journal during a difficult period of the founder's life. Gratitude aims to empower people across the world to focus on the positive by offering simple self-help tools and guided journaling exercises to help them in their transformation journey.

Pritesh Sankhe, Founder, Gratitude: "I built the Gratitude app out of my need to cope with a tough time and most of our power users have had a similar journey like me where they have overcome their negative emotions by bringing in more gratitude with the app. Learnings from the Appscale Academy helped improve our store listing visitors by 100%, acquisitions by 125% and grew our monthly revenue by 50%."

2 Explurger

DEVELOPER: Explurger Private Limited

LISTED ON PLAY: August 2020

Explurger is an Al-powered travel social media app for global audiences, from India. The app aims to cater to the unique needs of travellers through features such as building automatic travel bucket lists, and more.

Jitin Bhatia, Founder & CEO, Explurger: "We went live during the pandemic and we have more than a million users from more than 50 countries as part of our growing community today."

3 Evolve

DEVELOPER: Evolve

LISTED ON PLAY: July 2020

Evolve is a health-tech startup focused on the well-being of the LGBTQ+ community.

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