Irrespective of the relaxations in lockdown people are still avoiding going out and prefer doing work from home. Video conference are an important aspect of work from home. With privacy threat on Zoom app, Indians have come up with an effective solution to this problem. Mumbai based startup Inscript has developed ‘Say Namaste video conferencing app’. Earlier it could be accessed only through website but now it is available on Play store and App store.
The about section of the app on play store reads, “Say Namaste is a secure audio and video conferencing app designed for productive meetings or catchups among corporate teams, friends or family members. It’s developed by Inscripts – a company headquartered in Mumbai, India and in the business of creating world class communication products for over 10+ years.”
Features of the app:
– easily start or join a video call whether it is between 2 individuals or a multiple.
– You can use Say Namaste for 1:1 conversations as well as group audio and video conference.
– Supports up to 50 participants in one call
– Say Namaste also has features such as screensharing. Now easily share your screen using your desktop/laptop and the shared screen can be used by all participants right here in the app.
– Have great video meetings with Say Namaste! The app supports as rich media chat and messaging that allows you to have instantaneous conversations in a text mode.
– Easily share files in the video meeting itself using the file sharing functionality of Say Namaste. This feature allows you to share documents, PDFs, presentations, images, video files and a lot more during the video conference itself amongst all participants.
The app has 100K downloads on play store with 4.5 rating.
“Many feature which are required for a proper office meeting and discussion are available like chat and share images and media along with video calling. Although one problem is that it takes some time after everyone has joined to see and hear other people, most people leave the conference by then, I’m sure it will be fixed soon and that time I shall rate it 5,” says Tricon who gives 4 stars to the app.
Pramod Narayan, another user gives 5 stars to the app but points out a few errors which should be fixed. He said, “Team Say Namaste. Wonderful Concept but need to fix a lot of things like 1. My voice echoes during the call. 2. Can Improve Video quality. 3. During screen sharing Unable to share video to audience from VLC media player or any other application. While screen sharing does not detect other open apps which can be shared. 4. Work on the design and visual art aspect of the app. It impacts a person a lot. For example look how apple concentrates on the design of their products. Visual aesthetics.”
This app was updated on 6th June 2020. It’s size is 48M and requires android 5.0 and above for installation on the device.
