Alaap vs Chithi.me
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alaap
This app allows users to make free calls and send messages to other users over Wi-Fi or data. It also offers low-cost calls to non-users, bill payments, group chats, and video streaming.
- Free calls to Alaap users
- Low-cost international calls
- Bill payment
- Group chat
- Video streaming
- HD audio/video conferencing
- Bengali language support
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Alaap IP Phone is free to Download. All you need is a data plan or Wi-Fi internet connection and you are ready to go. Make calls, Pay Bills, send text messages, open a group chat, and so much more! Alaap is free to use. With mobile data plan and Wi-Fi connection, you can contact any Alaap user for FREE. You can also make voice calls to any one on who does not have Alaap App installed at a very competitive rate using your Alaap balance. Ask your friends and family to install Alaap and you will be able to make Audio/video calls and send rich messages. Staying in touch with your friends and family back home was never this exciting. And affordable. Important features are: • Your own Alaap Phone number • Anyone can dial to your Alaap number from anywhere in the world • Pay BTCL Service bill from Application • Low cost calls to any phone anywhere in the world • Supports Bengali language • Advanced messaging Features • Video Steaming (Latest movies, Natok, Song Available) • HD Quality Audio & Video conference • Earn credit from Refer • Newsfeed
Chithi.me
This app provides a digital mailbox for receiving personal letters from friends. Letters appear in a handwritten font on customizable paper designs and can be replayed keystroke by keystroke. Users can share letters to their stories or create scannable QR cards for their link.
- Digital mailbox for letters
- Handwritten font and paper designs
- Letter replay feature
- Share letters to stories
- QR card for link
- Searchable mailbox
- Content filtering and reporting
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Chithi.me is a mailbox for letters worth keeping. Share your link on social media, and the people who follow you can write you a letter. It arrives in its own handwritten font, on their choice of paper-like design, and it stays in your mailbox for as long as you want it there. HOW IT WORKS 1. Share your Chithi.me link 2. The people you share it with write you a letter 3. It lands in your mailbox seconds later WATCH THE WRITING TAKE SHAPE Replay any letter keystroke by keystroke and watch it being written. It is the closest you will get to sitting beside someone while they write to you. POST ONE TO YOUR STORY Put a letter on one of your own photos and share it in a tap. YOUR OWN QR CARD Turn your link into a card people can scan. Pick a style, write a caption in Bangla or English, and share it as a picture. Point a phone camera at it and your letter page opens. A MAILBOX THAT IS ONLY YOURS Letters arrive grouped by day, so today's are on top. Search everything you have ever been sent. A notification tells you the moment one lands. Nobody but you can see your mailbox. YOU DECIDE WHAT REACHES YOU Letters arrive unsigned, so a friend can say the kind thing they would not say out loud. That only works if the mailbox is a safe place to open, so Chithi.me is built with the controls to keep it one: - Every letter is screened by an automatic filter, in English and in Bangla, before it reaches you. The filter is on by default and you can turn it off. - Report any letter in two taps. We review every report within 24 hours and remove anything that breaks our rules. - Block whoever wrote a letter and nothing of theirs reaches you again. Blocked writers are listed in Settings, and you can undo it there. - Delete any letter the moment you see it. - Pause your link so it stops accepting letters, or delete your account and everything in it, from inside the app. - We have no tolerance for abuse. Writers who break our rules lose access, and we act on reports within 24 hours. - Reach us any time at support@chithi.me. Chithi.me is for people who miss getting letters. Share your link and see what arrives. Terms of Service: https://chithi.me/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://chithi.me/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chithi.me at 100% against Alaap's 21%. Chithi.me also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). Alaap's advantage is ratings volume (431 vs 10) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Chithi.me holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alaap has 431 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Alaap's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chithi.me's.
Alaap ships an update every 2 months, Chithi.me every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alaap | Chithi.me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (431 ratings) | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 431 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited | S. M. Sakeef Sani |
Customer experience
Alaap
Chithi.me
In-app purchases
Alaap
No in-app purchases
Chithi.me
No in-app purchases






