After more than 2 months of taking it down, Patanjali has announced the relaunch date of WhatsApp rival Kimbho on the occasion of Independence Day. Patanjali Ayurved believes that ‘Kimbho’ is ready with new features and plans to re-launch it this month. The relaunch plan was shared on Twitter on Kombho’s official account.
"Happy Independence Day"
Celebrate this Independence Day as Digital Independence with "Kimbho". Official launch of the app is on 27th August, 2018. We welcome your comments & suggestions.
Bharat Mata Ki Jai..!
Download Now https://t.co/QS3GshAEhr— Kimbho Chat App (@KimbhoApp) August 15, 2018
Another tweet wishing Indian Independence day was posted thanking people for the support.
Happy Independence Day
Patanjali family is grateful to you for keeping faith with us. Celebrate this Independence Day as Digital Independence with "Kimbho". pic.twitter.com/YmP3jwyIad— Kimbho Chat App (@KimbhoApp) August 15, 2018
“Kimbho app is now ready with new and advanced features,” read a tweet by Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna. Further, he said: Patanjali will officially launch the app on August 27, 2018, after fixing the “shortcomings”, and it will also be available on the Apple App store shortly.
Note that, Patanjali had removed Kimbho on 31 May as it had security issues which were revealed by Elliot Anderson, the French security researcher had found security holes in Kimbho and he said that he could access all messages users were sending through this app.
Ok, I will stop here. The #Kimbho #android #app is a security disaster. I can access the messages of all the users…🤦♂️
— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) May 30, 2018
Kimbho, on the other hand, had said that the app has gone down because of the unexpectedly high traffic. A tweet on the official page of Kimbho read “We are facing extremely high traffic on Kimbho. We are in process of upgrading our servers and will be back shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please stay tuned.”
We are facing extremely high traffic on Kimbho. We are in process of upgrading our servers and will be back shortly.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Please stay tuned.#Kimbho #kimbhoApp #Swadeshi— Kimbho Chat App (@KimbhoApp) May 31, 2018
Patanjali is looking to compete with popular chat platform Whatsapp using Kimbho. Patanjali’s spokesperson S K Tijarawala said in a recent interview: “We have put the trail version of Kimbho on the google play store, so that we come to know about the shortcoming. We are open for any amendments for any errors and we have invited feed back from the people also”.
“Now we are expecting millions download during the next 12 days of trail period and we have built a load capacity for that,” he added.
