Overview

• Zoho says Arattai has reached 7.5 million total downloads as of October 3 across Google Play and the App Store.
• The spike followed public endorsements from Union ministers and Anand Mahindra, with invites spreading widely on social platforms including WhatsApp groups.
• Sridhar Vembu outlined a homegrown messaging and AV framework refined over 15 years that enables fast, clear calling.
• He also highlighted a distributed architecture honed for over two decades to balance workloads and provide fault tolerance, monitoring, and security.
• Vembu said he has shifted full-time to R&D and urged the team to stay focused, as early users praise the app’s call quality.