Kaagaz Scanner, which has had 1.1 million downloads after it was launched in mid-June, works offline—for now— and doesn’t store data
Published on 2nd Sept, 2020 | 1 min read
India’s ban on Chinese apps left gaping holes across sectors that homegrown apps rushed to fill in. Before it was banned, CamScanner was a popular document scanning app, with more than 100 million downloads in India despite storing sensitive user data abroad and malware concerns. Now, an Indian startup wants to build a similar product but with a promise not to abuse users’ data. “Chinese apps could still operate, but something needed to be done about the data abuse. For Kaagaz, the app, all its data is offline. Even when we launch online storage, our cloud servers will be only in India,” Shrishrimal told Moneycontrol over the phone from Mumbai where the company is based. The app works offline only, which means it stores no data online, on its cloud or anywhere else. The automatic sorting ties in neatly with Sorted AI, an app Shrishrimal and the other two founders’ launched a year before Kaagaz Scanner.
