Indian payments app BHIM downloaded 3m times in five days
Indian UPI-based payments app BHIM has been downloaded over 3 million times in the five days it has been available on Android, with over 500,000 transactions taking place in the period. The app will be available on iOS in 10 days, with multilingual versions of the app being introduced at the same time, as BHIM currently only supports Hindi and English. The app was launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 30 December, having been developed by the National Payments Corporation of India.
BHIM app will be available on iOS in ten days, has already crossed 3 million downloads on Google Play Store. BHIM app will be available on iOS in ten days, has already crossed 3 million downloads on Google Play Store.

BHIM, the unified app for UPI-based payments has crossed 3 million downloads in just five days since it was launched with over 500,000 transactions done since launch. The numbers were put out in a tweet by Amitabh Kant, who is the CEO of Niti Aayog. Kant also confirmed the app will be arriving on iOS in another ten days and multilingual versions of the app will also be introduced in the same time span. Currently the BHIM app supports Hindi and English and is only available on Android.

BHIM app was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 30, and it stands for Bharat Interface for Money, and it is named BHIM after Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. The app is already topping the Google Play Store charts in India just days after the launch. It has been developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The fact that the government is bringing the iOS version soon is welcome news.

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