Sandes

National Informatics Centre.

About this app

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 communication in Government organisations. It is hosted exclusively at Government infrastructure. It supports end to end encrypted messaging and encrypted backup and encrypted OTP service. Its privacy and data policy is governed by rules and regulations of the Government of India. Sandes can be integrated with other Government communications systems for sending encrypted messages without any cost. Currently Sandes is integrated with NIC email, DigiLocker and e-office.
At present, full features of Sandes app are available only to the Government verified users. Employees of Government organisation need to contact the Nodal officer of their Ministry/ Department for verification. For information about Nodal officers write to us at support-sandes[at]nic[dot]in

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely garbage app with no functionality, only barriers. You have to find out and read a whole FAQ page to understand that even after you have followed all instructions and verified your account, you are not qualified to use the app because you were not invited to it. The helpline no. is dead and the app is full of bugs. Is this how a government sponsored app should be, because all I can feel is disappointment. I thought this might have been an alternative to WhatsApp, what a let down.

Please give features to make voice or video call. And one more thing, please shift option of voice massage, keep it in front of us, either you can keep it on top or anywhere else. And please work on it as fast as possible because i don't want to use products of foren countries in daily life, you can only help us to get rid of WhatsApp. And i really don't want to give less stars so please work fast, and i hope you can do it quickly.

It's a good app, however, many improvements could be made. First of all, I like the fact that the groups and personal chats are separate tabs. This helps people sort out their chats. When only emojis are sent, they should appear bigger than the text. The icons used could be a lot neater and more modern. The status feature must be added along with the ability to make group calls. If all these are implemented, I could see everyone currently using WhatsApp switching to this app.