New entrant in messaging app market

According to statistics in 2024, there are more than 5 billion people in the world using messaging applications, the most of which are WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. In total, these two platforms have more than 3 billion users, accounting for the majority of the market share.

In the Vietnamese market, messaging applications also have many "big names" occupying the main market share, including familiar names such as Facebook Messenger (52 million users), Zalo (75 million), Telegram (25 million)...

On October 18, the messaging application market in Vietnam welcomed Lotus Chat, an application born out of the reality that in the current chat environment, users are facing many problems such as: being bothered, insecure, information disclosure, being easily deceived, and easily failing.

"Newcomer" in messaging apps to build a safer chat environment for communication, more effective at work.

Mr. Nguyen The Tan - General Director of VCCorp said that Lotus Chat was born with 4 main pillars including: Online safety; Proactively protecting users; Effective work support and Always ready to serve anytime, anywhere.

"More than 3 years ago, we realized that chat apps on the market were developing very well. After a while, we evaluated the product and found that it needed to be sharp to have users. The process of writing the application took about 1 year. When synchronizing the devices, we encountered difficulties and it took 2 years to operate stably. Until now, we have just completed and launched it to the market," Mr. Tan shared.

Multiple user protection features

**Lotus Chat develops security features for users and is specifically designed for work.**

Lotus Chat offers outstanding features such as securing important information when communicating with a few small operations, preventing leaks of sensitive images or information with the feature of preventing forwarding, downloading or automatically deleting after the other person views it.

Users will feel secure and confident when all information is maximally protected, without worrying about being "leaked" and having personal data exposed or being automatically added to online groups.

Anti-disturbance and personal information protection are among the first safety values that Lotus Chat brings to users.

Thanks to features such as aliases, the "Ignore" section and the ability to hide personal information from strangers when their phone number is searched or messages are forwarded.

Send blurred photos, view and delete them automatically - a unique feature on the Lotus Chat messaging app.

For those who often discuss important matters via chat, features such as secure photos, secure vaults, secure chats, automatic message deletion, anti-deleting and anti-editing messages, or encryption on the transmission line help prevent users' important and sensitive content from being snooped on.

Security elements help prevent leaks of sensitive images or information with the ability to send sensitive images, prevent forwarding, downloading, and limit the opponent from taking screenshots.

Improve many work situations

Lotus Chat has features designed to improve the most common work situations, making everything more convenient and smoother.

Features like convo, call recording, pin top designation… support communication and teamwork to become easier and faster, especially with the huge amount of information you have to handle every day with many different groups.

This application allows users to not worry about losing data, losing photos, losing files, the storage helps you save unfinished files to continue working on at home or on another device; save links or data that are frequently used so that you can quickly access or share them with anyone.

This messaging app provides users with a calendar reminder assistant - Lota with meeting reminder and deadline reminder functions.

Lota is more useful than other calendar reminders and alarms because it can remind people according to both the lunar and solar calendars. Users can chat directly or add Lota to any group to remind everyone.

In addition, Lotus Chat also focuses on building functions that are close to Vietnamese people, whether it is preserving traditions, connecting families or targeting young people, close to GenZ through functions such as: reminding lunar calendar, reminding anniversary days, traditional days, voice stickers, changing names, avatar photos of lovers according to emotions, personalizing nicknames...

Chi Hieu

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