--- title: "Few Things to Know before Developing an App like WhatsApp" description: "So, if you want to create an app like WhatsApp than you need to pay attention to certain things that made this app so popular. There are a few example" author: "george rooney" published: 2019-10-24 updated: 2019-10-24 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/239120/few-things-to-know-before-developing-an-app-like-whatsapp category: "web development" tags: ["web development", "apps"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Few Things to Know before Developing an App like WhatsApp Remember the days when people used to use chat rooms to make small talks using the internet. When, if you wanted to talk to someone online, you actually had to wait for them to get online. Then things upgraded to different messengers and you could leave offline messages to people you wanted to talk to them and people could respond whenever they’d get online. After that the age of [social media](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1843/impact-of-social-media-in-seo) began and it widened the humdrum [everyday life](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83714/best-usages-of-artificial-intelligence-in-everyday-life) of messengers and chatrooms by providing the option to posting your own feed and also one could use the option of [instant messaging](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/167313/importance-of-instant-messaging-for-business-collaboration) too. Now it’s like we are [living in the age](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86516/discuss-the-experience-of-living-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence) of enlightenment. And it’s because of apps like WhatsApp. We can chat with anyone, the person you’re talking to can be located anywhere, all that’s needed is an access to the internet, and you can share files and documents and the best part IT’S FREE! The fact that WhatsApp provides free messaging service is probably the feature that helped made it this popular. So, if you want to create an app like WhatsApp than you need to pay attention to certain things that made this app so popular. There are a few examples of features that have helped made WhatsApp into the success it is today. You can incorporate the same features in your app and together with a combination of a very [powerful marketing](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85921/why-short-form-video-is-the-most-powerful-marketing-tool) campaign and good luck your app can also be as [successful as](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84278/google-pixel-phones-not-successful-as-compared-to-apple-phones) WhatsApp. Phone calls using VOIP: One of the best features of WhatsApp, other than free messaging is probably the feature to make free phone calls using Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP). This [technology helps](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87248/how-technology-helps-people-to-find-jobs) in delivering voice communication and other multimedia assemblies using the internet. Video Calls: This feature, [as the name](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34352/the-term-update-database-is-not-recognized-as-the-name-of-a-cmdlet-function) suggests, helps make video calls. It’s a rather more personal touch to calling and is one of the most frequently used feature in WhatsApp. Conference Calls: This feature allows its users to connect to more than one other users making the idea of having a conference very easy. Now you can talk to a whole [group of people](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39845/the-three-fifths-compromise-was-about-which-group-of-people) using this feature on WhatsApp and guess what, yes, it’s free too. These are some prominent feature that you’ll find in the successful app known as WhatsApp. And believe it or not WhatsApp incorporated most of its feature slowly and gradually with time. If you can research and incorporate all the features and add some more and incorporate them in the app before launching than you actually might have chance to give WhatsApp tough competition too. --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/239120/few-things-to-know-before-developing-an-app-like-whatsapp Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.