# Arattai Messenger — user reviews > 324 indexed App Store user reviews of Arattai Messenger by Zoho Corporation, rated 4.80/5 from 1,783 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arattai-messenger/id1522469944/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arattai-messenger/id1522469944.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,609 · 4★ 83 · 3★ 39 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 37 ## What do users think of Arattai Messenger? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and smooth experience - 🔒 Secure data handling - 👍 Great features like meetings and scheduling - 👍 User-friendly interface - 👍 High-quality video and audio calls - 👍 Reliable and stable performance **Cons** - 🐛 Contacts not showing up properly - 🐛 Messaging and call connectivity issues - 🐛 Slow media uploads and downloads - 🐛 App crashes and freezes - 🐛 Inconsistent performance across platforms **Commonly reported bugs** - Unable to verify phone numbers in some regions - Syncing issues with contacts - Inconsistent behavior on iOS devices - Delayed message delivery **Most requested features** - Add end-to-end encryption for messages - Improve contact management and sync - Implement group call feature - Add more customization options - Integrate with other Zoho services ## Newest reviews (17 of 324) ### 5/5 — Easy to use, fast *2026-03-16, version 1.17.39* Been using it for a few months and all features work in a solid manner. Also call quality from US to India was good. ### 5/5 — Suggestion: Branding & UX Enhancements for Global Growth *2026-02-10* Dear Arattai Team, I am a regular user and big fan of your privacy-focused platform. To help the app scale from a regional favorite to a global leader, I’d like to offer three quick suggestions: Catchier Branding: While "Arattai" is meaningful, it can be difficult for non-Tamil speakers to pronounce. I suggest a snappier, more universal name with a friendlier ring—like Howdy, Halla, Ping, or ZoChat. A "stickier" name would make it much easier to recommend globally. Social UI Enhancements: To match a refreshed brand, adding modern social features like interactive polls and smoother cross-app message forwarding would greatly improve the daily user experience. Global Vision: By combining your high security standards with a more approachable, easy-to-say identity, you can lower the barrier for millions of new users to join the ecosystem. Thank you for building such a great product. I look forward to seeing it grow! Best regards, Your Well wisher !! ### 5/5 — Exceptional!! *2026-02-07, version 1.17.36* So much better than WhatsApp. I liked the ability to create usernames and hide phone number. Great stuff by ZOHO. ### 5/5 — Great app to use *2026-02-04* Amazing app with great voice and vedio ### 3/5 — Images and Videos Performance and Delivery Status *2026-01-31* The image and video uploads are noticeably slower compared to other chat apps. Besides, please consider improving the message delivery indicators — a single tick mark doesn’t clearly confirm successful delivery. It would be better to have a universal delivery status system rather than app-specific versions. Currently, we often use other apps like WhatsApp for faster media sharing. Hope these issues get resolved soon. **Developer response:** Hi! Thanks for sharing this feedback. We’re actively working on improving media upload speeds and a delivery report feature to help indicate when a message has been delivered. Your inputs really help us prioritize what to improve next, and we appreciate your patience as we continue to enhance the experience. 💛 ### 5/5 — It is better than WhatsApp *2026-01-07* Easy to use ### 5/5 — Great alternative to whatsapp but *2025-12-23, version 1.17.28* Get the time delivered messaged to 1 second instantly instead of 5 sec ### 4/5 — Daily Games Needed *2025-12-20* I was genuinely impressed earlier this year by the traction and conversation volume on Arattai. It was encouraging to see an Indian platform gaining momentum in a space dominated by global players. That said, despite the positive sentiment, I personally find myself opening the app less frequently—not due to product gaps, but because of ecosystem inertia and habitual usage of existing platforms. Suggestion to drive daily engagement and ecosystem stickiness: - Introduce a “daily dose” model - Curated notifications: bite-sized news, trending discussions, regional insights - Predictable cadence builds habit (similar to how users check news or social feeds) - Add mindful games & lightweight activities - Concept-driven games like LinkedIn-style word, logic, or association games - Short, non-addictive, intellectually engaging formats aligned with Indian audiences - Focus on daily open → short value → exit loop - Even 2–3 minutes of meaningful engagement daily compounds over time - This gradually builds a parallel ecosystem without forcing migration I strongly believe that combining conversations with habit-forming micro-interactions can significantly improve DAU/retention and reduce dependency on users “remembering” to open the app. Wishing the Arattai team continued momentum and scale. Happy to see Indian platforms think long-term and ecosystem-first. ### 5/5 — EXCELLENT *2025-12-19, version 1.17.27* Working perfectly.AI can help for writing message. ### 4/5 — The name of the app could have been better and mass appealing *2025-11-29* The app itself is amazing but I find the name quite difficult to pronounce, could have been better to accepted by mass. ### 5/5 — Indexing and taking time to send *2025-11-27* App has indexing problems same contact saws 2 time and to send picture it takes longer and videos sometimes never received by contact just for your knowledge ### 5/5 — Nice app *2025-11-25, version 1.17.24* Nice app with all standard features. But a few performance issues and stability needed to be fixed asap. ### 5/5 — Feedback for improvement *2025-11-21* Hi Team, The app is very good. But I will draw your attention to contact display in the app. Currently it is showing on random basis. Kindly move it in order or provide option to user so that it is easy to search and start chat with new people. Overall happy with the app. Good job done ### 5/5 — Great app… Great name *2025-11-19* Simply the app has better features compared to WhatsApp and quite convenient to use with better privacy protection. ### 5/5 — Good app *2025-11-18* Easy to use ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-11-18, version 1.17.23* Truly a game changer ### 2/5 — Wont work with Nationalism. Professionalism first! *2025-11-15* Though the app is yet evolving, promoting the app on basis on nationalism wont work. Be professional and refine your app in such a way that can truly replace WA. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — can’t install from overseas *2026-07-22, version 1.17.57* its such a basic thing but can’t do on it, just doesn’t send otp and says contact CC even if you try overseas or india number. ### 1/5 — Horrible app. Audio peaks *2026-06-02, version 1.17.49* Horrible app man. Audio peaks when you call someone it doesn't keep a record of what it's audio set to blows my ears off every time i call someone. You have to call twice to see the other person's video. ### 1/5 — Disappeared message unable *2025-12-22, version 1.17.28* Disappeared message unable ### 1/5 — Worst app for call and massaging.audio and video quality is too much poor. *2025-11-15, version 1.17.23* Never use it. ### 1/5 — Requires access to contacts? *2025-11-03* Never ### 1/5 — App Not Working for Sri Lankan Numbers *2025-10-22, version 1.17.17* The app doesn’t work properly. I can’t open or complete the process using my Sri Lankan number. It keeps showing an error and doesn’t let me continue. Please fix this issue for Sri Lankan users. ### 1/5 — Group call featureike whatsapp *2025-10-13* I appreciate the scheduled meeting feature; however, I would love to see additional options such as group calls (similar to WhatsApp), a polling feature, and the ability to hide phone numbers, especially in groups or community pages. It would also be great if large files could be sent through Zoho Drive integration — where files exceeding the size limit are automatically uploaded to the drive and can be viewed directly within the app. Try to make it like a megessaging platform for business and personal use. And on the same app give us the option to have multiple profile for businesses use number and personal number. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work in the US *2025-10-12, version 1.17.16* I didn’t want to write a bad review I swear but this is ridiculous, I just downloaded the app to talk to my family in India and the page to search for your specific country so you can validate your phone number doesn’t work at all. It’s just STUCK on +91 for India and when you try to search nothing pops up, I mean no country’s name pops up. I made sure that my vpn was turned off too. That is why I can’t trust Indian tech! How will you hype up this app and it doesn’t even move forward from the basic sign up page? Like wth? ### 1/5 — iOS App - Not able to verify OTP *2025-10-12, version 1.17.16* After getting contact no, it sent OTP for verification but it is not moving to next screen to enter OTP ### 1/5 — Why? *2025-10-11, version 1.17.16* I appreciate the idea behind this initiative, but I’m curious about the choice of name. Is it meant only for Tamil users? If not, could you share the reasoning behind selecting a Tamil name? If the goal is to promote Tamil culture, that’s great but in that case, it might be better presented as a regional initiative rather than a ‘Make in India’ app. However, if the intent is to represent India as a whole, it would be more inclusive to choose a name that people across all regions and languages can relate to. Thanks ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Privacy and security *2026-08-10* Arattai Messenger is a promising alternative to WhatsApp, with a simple interface and useful messaging features. I would like more clarity about how user data, private messages, photos, and videos are protected. Clear information about encryption, data storage, and whether messages are accessible to third parties would help users feel more confident using the app. I also suggest adding a **“View Once”** feature for photos and videos. This would allow users to send sensitive media that disappears after being viewed, improving privacy and giving users more control over their content. ### 5/5 — Feedback *2026-08-07* It’s been a few days since I started using Arattai. I don’t have any major complaints so far. The only feature I feel is missing is a dedicated Links section within individual chats, which would make it much easier to find shared URLs. ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2026-07-31, version 1.17.58* App is awesome, they should do more marketing for larger reach. ### 5/5 — Slow when sending a picture *2026-07-29, version 1.17.58* Can you increase the messaging speed ### 5/5 — Really nice app *2026-06-30* I was having issues with WhatsApp video calls freezing from many weeks, so I tried Arattai. It is a really nice app and gives a great video and audio calling experience. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for giving Arattai a try! 💛 We're really glad to hear you've had a great video and audio calling experience. Thanks for sharing your experience with us! ### 5/5 — Review *2026-06-28, version 1.17.53* Best app ### 5/5 — Best app *2026-06-19, version 1.17.53* Best for messaging ### 5/5 — Good aap *2026-06-06, version 1.0.9* User friendly interface and easy to use app and 1000% batter than whatsaap ### 5/5 — Great Alternative to WhatsApp *2026-04-11* Video calling camera quality is the best, quite convenient for day to day use. More options available and flexible compared to WhatsApp. **Developer response:** Hi! Thank you for the feedback! We're glad to know you enjoy using Arattai and you like what we got coming out. ### 5/5 — Proud of Indian origin software *2026-03-19, version 1.17.41* Best app alternative to WhatsApp so far which runs on its own cloud and software and have lot of room for improvements, keep it going by adding more bug fixes and new features. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*