Hike messenger is an interesting messaging app originating from India. It was founded
and released in 2012. Just within two years, Hike gained 15 M active
users and another six months later their number grew to 35 M users.
Hike promotes itself as a messaging
guide around the Internet. The app so far remains focused on
India’s home market, where most people are only beginning to get
acquainted with the Web.
Our Hike review will guide you through the messaging app’s functionalities and explain why it has become so popular.
- To sign up Hike, you need to enter your phone number and then a four-digit code. After that, you indicate your name and upload a profile photo (optional). Those who are lazy to do that can sign in via Facebook.
- As in a lot of other messaging apps, people in Hike communicate by sending each other text messages. You can add up to 500 people to a group chat.
- Users can see the status of the messages they had sent: sent, delivered, read. A trifle but a useful one.
- Hike has made a sensation when it implemented an updated version with the voice-calling feature in January 2015, since it happened before WhatsApp did the same. The voice-calling feature is available in over 200 countries.
- Hike also contains a very useful feature of sharing photos/videos, which a user can upload from the phone’s gallery or take/record in real time.