India’s Vedantu, Hike Emerges As 2019’s Best Essential Apps on Google Play

The Annual Google Play Awards entered fourth year as it continued to recognize the best apps across different categories on the Google Play Store. These awards are a real boost for the app developers to be recognized by the industry especially the developers based in India. Across several Made in India apps that have stood out in these awards across different categories, two such apps are Hike and Vedantu. These apps have stood out in the Everyday Essential Apps Category of Google Play Awards 2019 along with global apps such as Spotify.

These apps have stood out basis the experience offered, and impact created in the lives of the users, encouraged community building, and offered an enhanced experience. Let’s quickly have a look at our new favorite go-tos awarded by Google Play Awards 2019:

Vedantu:

Vedantu is India’s leading, LIVE interactive online tutoring platform for students from 6th to 12th grades, with a focus on all major subjects (Math’s, Science, Social, English) and school boards (CBSE, ICSE, IB). Offering individual and group classes delivered by experienced teachers in a LIVE real-time model, Vedantu’ s vision is to reimagine and evolve the way teaching and learning have been happening for decades. By combining the quality of 500+ teachers, personalized and engaging content with superior technology, it is creating a greater learning experience for students and aiding in the improvement of student learning outcomes across 1000+ cities and 30+ countries.

Vedantu’s W.A.V.E platform has been granted an IP Patent for ‘Measuring the Effectiveness of An Interactive Online Learning System’ that helps teachers in identifying a student’s attention level, increases student-teacher interaction, doubt-solving, participation in gamified quizzes, and customization of teaching patterns owing to constant feedback. Owing to these capabilities Vedantu has achieved LIVE classes of 1 million hours till date that have been highly engaging and interactive for all its learners.

Hike:

Hike is happy to share that Hike Sticker Chat has been recognized as one of the ‘Best Everyday Essential Apps’ of 2019 by Google Play. In its 4th edition this year, Google Play Awards felicitated some of the most popular & user-friendly apps delivering a superior experience. Chosen from millions of apps, Hike Sticker Chat also had the honor of being one of the few homegrown apps highlighted across categories.

Hike remains grateful for the continued encouragement and support from its consumers, who remain the focus for all innovations at Hike. Built at the intersection of Art & AI, Hike Sticker Chat strives to supercharge user expression beyond the keyboard enabling a hyperlocal and hyperpersonal user experience. As one of the only players leveraging AI & ML for local languages at a mass scale, the company recently launched HikeMoji for its users. Tailored to offer a local flavor, HikeMoji allows users to choose from 1000+ components integrating hyperlocal clothing, hairstyles, accessories as well as access to 100+ exclusive HikeMoji stickers.

Hike’s vision is to build a new social future with joyful products that are built around the consumers & not the other way around. Creating radically unique products at the intersection of Art, AI, Product, Design & Engineering, Hike is all set to take the user experience to the next level in 2020.

Other Apps includes Boosted (Productivity and Time tracker apps), Ok Credit (Accounting App), Spotify (OTT music streaming app).