Kotha vs DESCO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kotha
Connect with friends and family using instant messaging, audio/video calls, and group chats. Share various file types and express yourself with stickers. Discover local services, news, and entertainment within the app.
- Instant messaging
- Audio/video calls
- Group chatting
- File sharing
- Bengali transliteration
- Discover section with mini apps
- News and entertainment
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Kotha is a Social Communication & Lifestyle app developed in Bangladesh for Bangladeshi people and Bangla speaking community around the world. The purpose of the app is to offer Bangladeshis their own social media & communication tools, promote use of Bangla language and at the same time offer daily life useful local services, lifestyle contents, latest news and entertainment etc. Kotha enables users to communicate with instant messaging, audio/video calls, group chatting and users can share images, camera photos & videos, contacts, attachments and document files, cloud files, links, voice message, location, stickers etc. It’s easy to type and post in Kotha with Bengali transliteration. Kotha has a feed/timeline were users can post, rate, comment and share. The discover section of the app has mini apps integrated into Kotha as well as sports updates, news & events, market place etc. Gradually more third-party services will be integrated into Kotha.
DESCO
Manage both postpaid and prepaid electricity bills in one place. Pay bills, recharge accounts, and view past usage with ease. Access service and emergency contacts, and find your local office location.
- Postpaid and prepaid bill management
- Bill payment and account recharge
- View electricity usage history
- Usage bar chart
- Contact S&D office
- Find S&D office location
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DESCO New Mobile application is now available for your apple mobile device with both Postpaid and Prepaid bill. View both Postpaid and Prepaid DESCO Electricity bills through one app and pay your Postpaid due bills and recharge Prepaid account from the application by only a few taps. Due to huge demand we are finally making this app available at app store for all the loyal customers of DESCO. We are also welcoming any new customers to try this out. DESCO mobile application is a unique one in Bangladesh including the facility of both Postpaid and Prepaid bill . Features: -Both Postpaid and Prepaid bill. -Usage bar Chart -Prepaid bill payment history -View electricity usage for past 12 months -Contact your S&D office for service and emergency -View the location and address of your S&D Office in Map Download New DESCO iOS App to experience the easiest DESCO Bill Payment in Bangladesh!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kotha at 4.0 against DESCO's 2.9. Kotha also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 16%). DESCO's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (158 vs 5). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kotha holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DESCO has 158 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Kotha's written reviews are positive against 16% of DESCO's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kotha | DESCO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | 2.9 (158 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.7% of reviews — better | 15.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 158 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 252 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kotha Apps & Technologies Ltd. | Software Shop Limited |
Customer experience
Kotha
DESCO
In-app purchases
Kotha
No in-app purchases
DESCO
No in-app purchases
