Healofy is on a mission to fulfill the content gap across vernacular languages and help Indian women in different stages of their lives.
Healofy, India’s largest and fastest-growing women’s social network has launched 7 Indian regional languages—Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam—on its platform. Prior to this, Healofy was available only in English and Hindi. Today, more than 61% of users of the app are regional language users. After Hindi, the top 3 regional languages with the most active userbases are Marathi, Malayalam, and Bengali.
According to the ‘Toward Gender Equity Online: Research with the Next Billion Users‘ report by Google India, “women are reluctant to network online on social platforms due to the fear of harassment and lack of a safe community”. Healofy’s mission is to create a vernacular social network exclusively for Indian women to feel informed, safe and empowered, thus allowing them to consume, connect and transact in a trusted space.
The average Indian internet consumer prefers content in their native language. In India, 9 out of 10 new smartphone users look for credible and relatable regional language content. Additionally, women often struggle to find relevant content and supportive communities online.
Healofy is addressing this by offering vernacular content on various topics of women’s interests such as pregnancy, parenting, food, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, etc. in 9 languages – English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. For maximum relatability with users, Healofy also ensures that the content is culturally and regionally contextual.
Its interface is highly user-friendly, with every feature being available in regional languages. Healofy has disrupted the traditional peer-to-peer interaction experience by introducing a chat transliteration feature that allows any user to type regional words using English characters. The app then instantly converts the English characters into the appropriate regional script.
“It has been an incredible journey for us over the last three years. We are creating a significant impact by empowering women and providing them a safe community to connect, share, and learn in the language they are most comfortable in. Our growth rate in vernacular languages has been 4 times faster than that of English. This itself validates the huge need for a vernacular women’s social network”, says Gaurav Aggarwal, CEO and co-Founder of Healofy.
Healofy aims to empower women by enabling them to not just consume but also create their own content and showcase their skill sets. They can connect and influence other like-minded women based on similar language, location, stage of life, as well as interests such as working from home, fitness, lifestyle, etc.
Healofy also envisions to help women attain financial independence by helping them earn from home via e-commerce networking. By allowing women to form meaningful connections and relationships with other women in the Healofy community, the idea is to replicate the offline experiences of networking and shopping in the online world.
With 2 million+ app downloads, Healofy has successfully created a strong community of over 500,000 Daily Active Users (DAUs) and 1 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs) on their Android app, thus exhibiting strong engagement and retention. The platform also sees 1.5 million+ website visits every month.
To date, Healofy has raised $9.5M in funding from BabyTree Group, China’s Largest Parenting Platform, BAce Capital, a fund backed by Alibaba’s Ant Financial Services Group, and angel investors. Little wonder then that Healofy is growing into India’s largest social network exclusively for women. By addressing the growing need for credible and relatable content for Indian women, Healofy has given Indian women a means to earn a living and also belong to a safe space.
Healofy was founded in September 2016 by Forbes 30-Under-30 awardees Gaurav Aggarwal and Shubham Maheshwari. Initially focused on women’s critical-health content like conception, pregnancy, and post-pregnancy care, the app has since become the leading social network for women in India.
