Aarogya Setu

National Informatics Centre.

About this app

Aarogya Setu is a mobile application developed by the Government of India which connects the various essential health services with the people of India. The application is playing a crucial role in our combined fight against COVID-19 and now, has evolved as the National Health application to serve the people of India in an exemplary way. The application has come up with an intuitive User Interface and comprehensive features such as ABHA (Health ID) creation, discovery & linking of health records to enable longitudinal digital health records, Simplified Consent Management for sharing these records, and a Seamless Search feature to find Nearby Hospitals, Labs and Blood Banks.

The following are some of the key features of the Aarogya Setu platform:

● Creation of ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) that helps in building and maintaining longitudinal health records and allow accessing your information right from admission to treatment and discharge in a paperless manner
● Discovery and linking of health records, Consent Management for sharing health records
● eRaktKosh API (provided by CDAC) integration that allows users to search for nearby Blood Banks and the availability of blood units in real-time for different Blood Groups. Various filters and some crucial information like contact number, email, distance, direction, navigation, etc. are also provided for users’ convenience.
● Self-Assessment test based on ICMR guidelines
● Facilitates the Registration of Covid-19 vaccine registration
● Facilitates the download of the Covid-19 vaccine certificate
● A completely revamped User Interface and User Experience
● Open API based Health Status Check
● Updates, advisory, and best practices related to COVID-19
● Nation-wide COVID-19 statistics
● Emergency COVID-19 Helpline contacts
● List of ICMR approved Labs with COVID-19 testing facilities
● Provides the infection Status of the User
● QR Code scan feature to share Health Status
● Support for over 12 Languages

Key Permissions required by the App:

● Camera permission for scanning QR code
● Location Permission to provide location-based services like nearby blood banks, hospitals, labs, etc.
● Media Permission to allow downloading Health Records, Vaccination Certificate, and others.

Ratings and reviews

Have installed the app but it's not very useful in protecting me as it requires me to have Bluetooth on all the time which is a huge battery drainer and only works if everyone also has their Bluetooth on. Good luck with that. Hence it doesn't achieve the goal of the app. Also, alerts don't work as you expect them to. Alerting me a couple of days later that I may have come in n contact with an infected person doesn't help me

It is not allowing me to login to the App. The registration process is redundant and dodgy. I need this App to work for my examination center check to be cleared and it hasn't been functioning all week. Keeps giving me "We're having trouble logging you in error" on a phone number that's registered before, linked to each ID necessary, and meets all the needed stipulation of the device. Horrid unmaintained software.

Very poor UI design. The primary information, positive cases around you, shows up only after waiting for less interesting information to scroll by, while you have to keep the device from darkening the screen. Significant real estate on the screen is used up by same trending news item about old movie star. Not enough room for the critical information. Should also provide a way to check information at a location where one may need to visit.

What's new

Bug fixes and stability improvements