The massive ban on Chinese apps in India allowed several major apps with millions of users to cease to work in India, including the beloved TikTok, CamScanner and even the file-sharing app ShareIt.?
But this also meant that other players with equally tempting offerings got a chance to come into the limelight and generate users. And one such app is File Share Tool.
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The app was developed by a young Kashmiri MBA student Tipu Sultan Wani from Chadoora, Budgam. The app has features identical to ShareIt where it allows people to share files through a Wi-Fi hotspot, resulting in faster transfer of large files.
The app has garnered a rating of 4.8 out of 5 on the Google Play Store with over 5000 downloads globally The download size of the app is just 5.3MB in size. Wani claims that his app is faster than ShareIt.?
He said in a statement to KashmirWatch, ¡°This application is working faster than SHAREit. Unlike SHAREit, I have developed this application without advertisements, which can be used to share movies, documents and audios, without any limit,¡±?
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The app¡¯s UI is fairly simple and straightforward, however, in the screenshots shared on the Google Play Store, the app does feature banner ads, which is rather confusing, considering the aforementioned claim.?
Wani has also worked on several other apps, one of them being Travager -- a website that compares prices of flights and hotels online, along with a photo collage tool as well as a VPN tool.?
Wani¡¯s app isn¡¯t the only one that has received a sudden rise in popularity in India post the ban of Chinese apps. We¡¯ve already seen apps like Mitron, Chingari and ShareChat gain traction after TikTok bid adieu to the Indian app space. In a matter of weeks, these apps have gotten hundreds of thousands of downloads and have come on top in the app stores too.