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Pros & Cons

End-to-end encryption and encrypted backups
Open-source, indigenous NIC solution
Hosted on government infrastructure for compliance
Integrations with NIC email, DigiLocker, and e-office

Full features limited to government-verified users, which may limit external adoption
Verification via nodal officers can add onboarding steps

About Sandes

Sandes is a tools app developed by National Informatics Centre..

Install Statistics

Sandes has been installed 6.3 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 140 thousand times.

User Ratings

Sandes is rated 3.59 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 20 thousand ratings.

App Information

Sandes is freely available from Google Play. The app size is 37.59 MB. The latest version available is 2.2.71. The last update was on August 26, 2025.

Technical Requirements

Sandes requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since March 2021.

Description by National Informatics Centre. (from Google Play)

Sandes is an open source based indigenous instant messaging platform developed by NIC, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India to facilitate instant messaging

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Installs over time

Sandes has been installed 6.3 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 4.7 thousand installs per day.

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Comments on Sandes for Android

★★★★★ QUESTIONMAN · Oct 13, 2026

I want that Sandesh app should replace WhatsApp and dependency from WhatsApp for India. Please Advertise Sandesh I will also encourage my friends and family to use Sandesh app.

★★★★☆ Subrato Goswami · Aug 16, 2026

Only the interface needs to be attractive.

★★★★★ Uttam Chand · Oct 4, 2026

This app is very helpful for teachers as well students

★☆☆☆☆ Aman Shukla · Aug 5, 2026

Made up my mind to use indian app to reduce dependency in foreign apps but as soon I enter to profile section where it asked my name and after entering my name I pushed the next button, and it shows invalid name....it's my first experience in my whole life where I used my name and error occurs there in my name...disappointed.please fix this, and I will join you after

★☆☆☆☆ Lijo Joseph · Aug 18, 2026

Sandes app said "you do not have permission to send messages this chat". Please guide

★☆☆☆☆ Rahul Rathore · Jun 20, 2026

Otp not received from ITBP login page. This issue faced from 20 days

★☆☆☆☆ mohammed sinan · Sep 30, 2026

Have to wait a long time to receive otp and while receive otp app tells to retry

★☆☆☆☆ Jyoti Gupta · Oct 6, 2026

This indian govt is one of a kind they know ordinary people don't install this app so what they did they asked govt employees to install.

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Technologies used by Sandes

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