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

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.

Lots of there to improve. 1. Time delay is there to receive msg. 2. audio/ video call option not available 3. Font style and color added. Unable to apply it for selected text. It's very important. Otherwise it is no use. 4. Need to improve the contact sync area. 5. Need to reduce the line space between the chat msg 6. I loved tags. Bus need to add more. People will love it. 7. While using dark Theme, the button will remain in same color. 8. Unable to send contacts other than sandel users

The app is quite good designed. Simple yet almost all the basic features are present. Also, the unique thing in this app is we have a option to add contacts manually, even if some of our contacts are already using this app. This particularly gives more security and safety to the user as he can add only those ppl whom he wants to talk with. This will avoid useless and baseless chatting and messaging and will avoid wastage of time. Great.. Keep updating.. Keep Growing..Nice app overall. 👍🏼..