Ayoba is a highly localised messaging app tailored for Africans. It caters to African and Middle East consumer needs, supporting 22 relevant languages like pidgin, Yoruba, etc. Ayoba is a South African slang, which means something “cool”, “okay”, or “all right.” Launched in 2019, Ayoba won the Africa Digital Award for Best Mobile Application in November 2020, in a voting process involving both industry judges and the public and has reached over 5million users so far. Users of Ayoba can send and receive encrypted messages, share photos, videos, files and voice notes and can also subscribe to live channels.
Family friendly localised content is available through curated channels aimed at entertaining, educating and empowering communities as well as a range of games. Ayoba is available for Android users on the Google, Transsion, Huawei, Samsung. If that is not compelling enough, below are 10 reasons why you should consider downloading the app;
1. FREE TO USE: Ayoba is free to use. You need data to send messages and files to your contacts, but if you are on the MTN network, you will get free data every day to use the app.
2. CHAT AND CALL NOW: Instantly send and receive text and voice messages, voice notes, and voice and video calls with any of your contacts.
3. SECURE: End-to-end encryption means that messages in a conversation cannot be read by anyone else.
4. QUICK CONNECT: Use your existing address book to quickly and easily connect you with your contacts.
5. CHAT WITH EVERYONE: Send SMS text messages to anyone in your contact list, regardless of whether they’ve installed Ayoba or not. If the friend you send to does not have the app, the message will be delivered by SMS. They can respond by SMS and it will come back into your app. This is a unique technology.
6. GROUP CHAT: The more the merrier! Set up group chats to easily communicate with friends and family in a single chat.
7. SHARING IS CARING: Share videos, images, audio, and other files with your contacts.
8. LET’S MEET: Share your real-time location with your ayoba contacts.
9. CHANNELS: Consume all content across various categories ranging from news, sports, fashion, music, education to entertainment and much more, all within the ayoba app. All of our channels are Africa centric – such as the Black Star channel for Ghana, Scrolla Africa in IsiZulu, Pulse Channels for Nigeria and Ghana covering business news, current affairs and entertainment, and over 50 artist channels highlighting African musicians and many more.
10. LISTEN AND PLAY Our free music service allows users to listen to trending songs in our fantastic playlists, featuring the best of local and international music. We have games that you can play as well, such as BattleShip, Pinball, Solitaire and more. New content is added every day.
