A lot of controversies are currently surrounding the WhatsApp messaging app; WhatsApp recently forced it users to share personal data with facebook. Many users are not comfortable with this new rule, tagged it unsafe and not private anymore.
Users are swiftly changing the game, by moving over to other messaging app like telegram and also looking out for more.
A new app, that shares same features as WhatsApp, called Supfrica has surfaced; created by a US-based Sierra Leonean, Hafiz Alhassan Kanu. The app has all the features similar to WhatsApp.
According to Hafiz Alhassan-Kanu, “We want to create an app by Africans for Africans and eventually get it to be used globally,” Hafiz told Pan African Daily TV.
According to Techeconomy.ng, it can be likened to WhatsApp -except that it is 2 times faster.
The app was first released on December 11, 2020, with a little over just one hundred downloads. However, since WhatsApp announced that its users will have to share their personal data, Supfrica’s downloads have skyrocketed with over 100,000 downloads.
The app is now among the top trends on Google Play Store Top Free Apps, rating favorable than WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook and WeChat. “It was supposed to be a test, it was not even an actual launch, but the test went viral,” Hafiz told Pan African Daily TV.
Supfrica App features
- Voice and video calls are faster, audible, and cheaper.
- Unlike WhatsApp, you can forward messages to over 20 contacts at a go
- You can create a Supfrica group and add an unlimited number of contacts
- Accepts 2G, 3G, and 4G without scrambled voice or video calls
With the pace and popularity Supfrica has gained in the past few days, it just might take over WhatsApp in the next couple of months.