There are various widely popular cross-platform instant messaging apps available for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry and Nokia. Some of the top chat messenger apps are: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Line, WeChat, Hike, and Viber. Of these Hike messenger, which is highly popular in India is now topping the charts by currently being the #1 App in ‘Top Free apps’ category on Google Play and currently #3 on iOS App Store. Hike, made with love in India has over 20 million users and is adding over 300K new users every day.
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Hike Offline – Send message as a SMS to friends even when they’re offline using Hike free SMS. The more you chat with Hike users, the more free SMS’s get added to your account
Show your Last Seen, Online status and Status only to specific users – This is a great option in Hike, giving you complete control over Privacy. Simply add a friend or multiple friends to your ‘Favorites’ to share your last seen and status updates only with them. You can also ask them to add you to favorites and can also see who all have added you as a favorite.
Hidden Mode – Having late night naught chats or some personal conversations over Hike? Well, the newly introduced hidden mode lets you hide all those texts and password protect chats for a particular friend with a pattern lock. Moreover, this mode has been designed so smartly that one can’t easily make out if you’ve hidden something or not.
To setup hidden mode on Hike, tap on the hike logo (hi) from the top left corner and then choose ‘Quick Setup’. Then tap and hold on a chat that you wish to hide, select the ‘Mark chat as hidden’ option. Tap the Hike logo again and setup a pattern password to access hidden mode. To toggle the hidden mode On or Off, simply tap on the hi icon and input the pattern. The password for hidden mode can be changed from Hike settings and in case you forget the password, you can reset hidden mode but doing so will delete all the hidden chats.
Stickers – A comprehensive collection of cool and amazing stickers varying from love to drama, Bollywood to Hollywood, to happiness, Memes, Superheroes, cats, and a lot more. Stickers are the best way to express your feelings when words fail to, you’ll love them! There are tons of emoticons & emojis as well but nothing beats the free stickers offered by Hike.
Send Any Files & Bigger Attachments up to 100MB each – Besides the option to share photos, videos, audio, location, and contacts; Hike supports sharing of non media files and documents like PDF, ZIP, Doc, PPT, APK files and much more! Power users can send large files and videos of up to 100 MB each. Now this is something unusual and really useful. For those unaware, WhatsApp doesn’t lets you share videos greater than 16MB in size.
Option to Send Images in their Original quality – All of the messaging apps compress the uploaded images and photos before sending them to the recipient to save bandwidth and hosting cost. As a result of this, there is significant loss of picture quality for most of your meaningful and beautiful images that you wish to be seen in best quality.
Chat Themes – The themes aren’t simple backgrounds unlike WhatsApp. You can set different themes depending on your mood. What’s interesting it that when you change the chat theme, it gets changed for your friends too! You can set a different theme for every desired conversation. Though, there is no option to set a custom wallpaper as background.
Rewards(Invite Friends and Earn Talktime) – To attract new users and delight the current ones, Hike has been rewarding its users by offering them aFree Talktimebalance of Rs. 20 for each friend they invite to Hike. The talktime can be redeemed once you reach a minimum required amount of Rs. 50.
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Prominent Features offered by Hike Messenger
Hike Offline – Send message as a SMS to friends even when they’re offline using Hike free SMS. The more you chat with Hike users, the more free SMS’s get added to your account
Show your Last Seen, Online status and Status only to specific users – This is a great option in Hike, giving you complete control over Privacy. Simply add a friend or multiple friends to your ‘Favorites’ to share your last seen and status updates only with them. You can also ask them to add you to favorites and can also see who all have added you as a favorite.
Hidden Mode – Having late night naught chats or some personal conversations over Hike? Well, the newly introduced hidden mode lets you hide all those texts and password protect chats for a particular friend with a pattern lock. Moreover, this mode has been designed so smartly that one can’t easily make out if you’ve hidden something or not.
To setup hidden mode on Hike, tap on the hike logo (hi) from the top left corner and then choose ‘Quick Setup’. Then tap and hold on a chat that you wish to hide, select the ‘Mark chat as hidden’ option. Tap the Hike logo again and setup a pattern password to access hidden mode. To toggle the hidden mode On or Off, simply tap on the hi icon and input the pattern. The password for hidden mode can be changed from Hike settings and in case you forget the password, you can reset hidden mode but doing so will delete all the hidden chats.
Stickers – A comprehensive collection of cool and amazing stickers varying from love to drama, Bollywood to Hollywood, to happiness, Memes, Superheroes, cats, and a lot more. Stickers are the best way to express your feelings when words fail to, you’ll love them! There are tons of emoticons & emojis as well but nothing beats the free stickers offered by Hike.
Send Any Files & Bigger Attachments up to 100MB each – Besides the option to share photos, videos, audio, location, and contacts; Hike supports sharing of non media files and documents like PDF, ZIP, Doc, PPT, APK files and much more! Power users can send large files and videos of up to 100 MB each. Now this is something unusual and really useful. For those unaware, WhatsApp doesn’t lets you share videos greater than 16MB in size.
Option to Send Images in their Original quality – All of the messaging apps compress the uploaded images and photos before sending them to the recipient to save bandwidth and hosting cost. As a result of this, there is significant loss of picture quality for most of your meaningful and beautiful images that you wish to be seen in best quality.
Chat Themes – The themes aren’t simple backgrounds unlike WhatsApp. You can set different themes depending on your mood. What’s interesting it that when you change the chat theme, it gets changed for your friends too! You can set a different theme for every desired conversation. Though, there is no option to set a custom wallpaper as background.
Rewards(Invite Friends and Earn Talktime) – To attract new users and delight the current ones, Hike has been rewarding its users by offering them aFree Talktimebalance of Rs. 20 for each friend they invite to Hike. The talktime can be redeemed once you reach a minimum required amount of Rs. 50.
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