Made in India Indus App Store Has been launched. This app store of PhonePe will be an alternative to Google Play Store for app developers. This app store was announced by the company last year, which has been released for general users from today. This app store has been launched by Union IT and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav. The special thing about this app store is that the developers will not have to pay any kind of fee. Developers can register their apps for free on the App Store for the first year. Also, no commission will be taken from them.
This Made in India app store is currently available in 12 languages. Apart from this, AI based personalized feature is also provided in it. Not only this, you will also be able to search apps and games through videos on Indus App Store. To download the app in this app store, you have to register. For this the user will only have to enter his mobile number and OTP. This app store is currently only for Android users.
You will not have to pay any charges
Indus App Store has been specially designed keeping Indian app developers in mind. Indian app developers will be able to register their apps for free on this app market place. No charge will be taken from them for this. However, this offer will be for 1 year only. Apart from this, app developers registering on this app store will not have to pay any commission in the first year. App developers will not share the revenue earned from the app with Indus. Google charges huge commission from app developers. This clearly means that Google will not be allowed to act arbitrarily on this app store.
There are already more than 300 apps listed on this app store. Android users will be able to install these apps on their smartphones from here. This app store supports 12 Indian languages, which apart from English and Hindi, include Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil etc. App developers will be able to integrate any payment gateway for their app. In Google and Apple’s app stores, app developers have to use Google or Apple’s payment gateway in the app.
Google’s arbitrariness will be stopped
Google and Apple charge up to 30 percent commission from developers for registering apps on their app stores. Not only this, commission is also taken on every purchase made through the app. PhonePe has not charged any fee to register the app on this app store. This means that developers will be able to register their apps here for free. Also, there will be no charge for earning from the app.
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