Tutorials & FAQ

1. Open the app. If you are not signed in, the Welcome to KuhuChat screen appears.
2. Type your 10-digit mobile number in the Mobile Number box. +91 is already filled in.
3. Tap Send OTP.
4. A 6-digit code arrives by SMS and the Verify OTP screen opens (see 1.2).

There is no password and no username.

No, it is the same flow. If your number has no account yet, one is created after you verify the OTP and enter your name.

Indian mobile numbers only. Enter exactly 10 digits starting with 6, 7, 8 or 9. If something is wrong you will see one of these messages:

• Please enter your phone number.
• Enter a 10-digit mobile number.
• Enter a valid Indian mobile number starting with 6-9.

No. Your mobile number is your login and your identity in KuhuChat.

• Check that the number is correct and that your phone has a signal.
• Wait a minute or two. SMS can be slow.
• Tap Resend OTP once the countdown ends (see 1.2).
• "Too many attempts. Please wait a few minutes before retrying." Wait, then try again.
• "SMS quota exceeded for today. Please try again later." Try again later.
• "No internet" means check your connection and retry.
• "Invalid phone number" means re-check the digits.

KuhuChat does not charge for it. The screen reminds you that standard SMS rates from your mobile operator may apply.

Yes. Open KuhuChat in a browser (Chrome or Edge recommended) and use the same mobile number and OTP.

No. You stay signed in on your device until you log out or delete your account.

The language you last chose in the app. If you have not chosen one, it is English (see 2.1).

It is your account ID. KuhuChat also stores a one-way scrambled (hashed) copy of it, which is used to match people in your contacts. Your contacts are synced in the same hashed form.

A 6-digit one-time code sent by SMS to prove the number is yours.

1. On the Verify OTP screen, the message "We sent a 6-digit code to +91..." shows your number.
2. Type the 6-digit code from the body of the SMS. Do not type the sender's number.
3. It verifies automatically after the sixth digit. You can also tap Verify.

No. Type the code yourself. Always enter the most recent code you received.

After you request a code, a 4-minute countdown starts ("Resend code in 4:00"). When it reaches 0:00, Resend OTP becomes active. Tap it: the box clears, a new code is sent, you see "OTP resent successfully.", and the countdown restarts.

Tap the back arrow at the top of the Verify OTP screen, correct the number and tap Send OTP again.

• "Wrong OTP. Please check and try again." The code you typed does not match. Re-enter it, or resend and use the newest code.
• "Verification failed. Please try again." Check your internet and try again.
• "Sign-in failed. Go back and retry." Go back, send a new OTP and try again.
• "Something went wrong. Please try again." Try once more.
• "Resend failed. Please try again." or "Could not resend OTP." Wait a moment and tap Resend OTP again.

If your number already has a profile with a name, you go straight to the home screen on the Contacts tab. If it is a new number, you are asked for your name (see 1.3).

At login, KuhuChat clears the chat and contacts copies saved on that phone and loads them fresh from your account. This keeps one person's data from showing up in another person's account on a shared phone. Your messages themselves are not deleted.

"What's your name?" with the note: This is how contacts and groups will see you. You can join your Samaj later from the Samaj tab.

1. Type your Full Name. It cannot be left empty ("Please enter your name").
2. Tap CONTINUE.
3. You land on the Contacts tab.

Your contacts and the groups you join.

No. You can chat with contacts right away and join your Samaj any time from the Samaj tab (see 1.4).

It is a basic account with your name and number. It is marked "temporary" until you join a Samaj.

KuhuChat may sync your phone contacts so it can show which of them are on KuhuChat. This happens automatically and at most about once every 12 hours.

• Only scrambled (hashed) numbers are used for matching.
• If you decline contacts permission, the sync is skipped and chats still work.
• The browser version cannot read your phone's contacts. It shows the contacts your phone has already synced.

The app could not reach the server in time. It waits about 6 seconds on the app and about 15 seconds on the web. Check your internet and tap Retry.

Tap Retry first. If it keeps happening, log out and log in again.

The account was blocked for breaking KuhuChat's rules. The screen shows the reason (for example "Rules violation") and a Logout button. A banned account cannot use the app. If you think this is a mistake, contact us from the Contact page.

It appears whenever the number has no profile name saved. Complete it once and it will not appear again.

Your community, grouped by caste (and subcaste) and native village. Joining connects you to your Samaj members, your family tree, matrimony matches, the community gallery, the radar and the Samaj chat.

Tap the Samaj tab. If you have not joined, the Join Your Samaj screen opens by itself, with the text "Tell us your village and caste to find your Samaj members, family tree, and matrimony matches."

1. Choose your caste. Tap the Caste / Samaj box and search by name. Alternate names work too.
2. Choose your subcaste. This step appears only if your caste has subcastes, and then it is required.
3. Choose your location. For most castes pick State, District, Taluka, then Native village. For taluka-based castes pick State, District and Taluka; your ancestral village can be added too.
4. Tap JOIN SAMAJ.

Your native (ancestral) village, where your family originally comes from. It decides which Samaj group and family tree you belong to.

1. Tap Search & pin on map. The Find your place sheet opens.
2. Choose your State, then type your village, taluka or district name.
3. If it is not there you will see "Place not found in our list." Tap Add it manually.
4. Enter the village or place name and District. Taluka is optional.
5. Drop a pin on the map. A pin is required to confirm.
6. Optionally add your full address, then tap Confirm.

• Please select your caste.
• Please select your subcaste.
• Please select your village location.
• Please select your native village.
• Please select your district and taluka.

The first 3 members of a village are approved straight away. From the 4th member on, you join as Pending until one of your village admins approves you (see 1.5).

You become an admin automatically if you are one of the first two members of your village, or if your village has no admin at all. Otherwise you join as a regular member.

Possibly. Villages of the same parent caste can be merged into one Samaj group. Your Samaj name at the top of the Samaj tab then shows the combined group.

Yes.

1. On the Samaj tab, tap the three-dot menu and open Profile. (The Profile opened from the Contacts or Social tab is a shorter version without the Caste card.)
2. On the Caste card, tap the edit icon. The edit icon on the Location card does the same.
3. Read the warning. To continue, type CONFIRM.
4. Wait for the reset to finish. The registration form opens again.
5. Choose your new caste and village and tap JOIN SAMAJ.

Only things tied to your old Samaj:

• Your family tree is deleted, and your relatives' entries about you are marked removed.
• Your matrimony profile and its interests are deleted.
• Your admin seat, admin applications and your pending merge or separation votes are removed.
• Your relatives are told that you left the tree.

Your chats, contacts, wall and gallery posts, radar pins, businesses, trips and reminders.

• Temporary: you have not joined a Samaj yet.
• Permanent: you are an approved member.
• Pending (shown as Pending Approval): an admin has not reviewed you yet.
• Needs verification: an admin asked you to confirm your identity.
• Rejected: admins turned down your request.

Your status is Pending, Needs verification or Rejected. In the Samaj tab the top bar and icon row are greyed out and cannot be tapped, and the member list is greyed too. Your Contacts tab and chats keep working. Everything unlocks once you are approved.

Your village's admins, up to 3 of them. They see you on their Pending Members screen, showing your name and how long ago you joined.

• Verify Member: one admin can approve you. You become Permanent.
• Ask to Verify: an admin asks you to prove your identity. Your status becomes Needs verification.
• Reject: this is a vote. Two different admins must reject before you are rejected. After the first vote the admin sees "Reject vote recorded (1/2). One more admin needs to reject."

The screen lists your village admins with their names and phone numbers. Call or message any of them and confirm who you are. They will tap Verify Member once satisfied.

Contact one of your village admins directly and tell them you have just joined. Approval happens when an admin acts on your request.

The registration form opens again with a message, for example: "Admins of [VILLAGE] rejected your request. You can try [VILLAGE] again (chance 2 of 3) or register in another village." You have 3 chances per village.

You see: "Admins of [VILLAGE] rejected you 3 times. Please register in another village." Pick a different village and register there. The limit applies only to the village that rejected you.

Yes. Chatting with your contacts and groups, reminders, the Toolbox and the other tabs keep working. Only the Samaj tab's top bar, its icon row and the Samaj member list are locked.

Up to 3 per village. They are chosen automatically when the village starts, and more admins can be added through admin applications and votes.

13: English, Hindi (हिन्दी), Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), Marathi (मराठी), Bengali (বাংলা), Tamil (தமிழ்), Telugu (తెలుగు), Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), Malayalam (മലയാളം), Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ), Assamese (অসমীয়া) and Urdu (اردو).

1. Open the Samaj, Contacts or Social tab.
2. Tap the three dots at the top right.
3. Tap Language.
4. Tap your language.

The whole app switches immediately and the list closes by itself. You do not need to restart.

Each language is written in its own script with the English name underneath (for example "ગુજરાતી" with "Gujarati" below). Look for the English name if you cannot recognise the script. A tick mark shows the language you are using now.

The Business tab's menu is shorter (Refresh, Home screen icons, About, Logout). Switch to the Samaj, Contacts or Social tab and use the three-dot menu there.

English, until you choose another one.

Yes. It is saved on your phone and stays after you close the app. If you move to a new phone or reinstall the app, choose your language again.

No. It only changes how the app looks on your device. Messages, posts and names appear exactly as people wrote them.

Yes. The kinship names used in the Family Tree (for example father, jeth) show in your chosen language. There are 103 relations in all 13 languages.

• Samaj: your community, with members, family tree, matrimony, gallery, radar and your business.
• Contacts: your phone contacts who are on KuhuChat, and your private chats.
• Social: your groups (the Social Circle).
• Business: the Business Circle, a directory of businesses.

Contacts. You can start chatting before you join your Samaj.

• Wall brick icon (left): opens your personal wall and shows a count for new activity.
• Your Samaj name (centre): your village, or a combined label if your village is merged with others. Tap it to open Village Connection.
• Megaphone: your Voice Status for your Samaj, and the voice messages left for you (see Chapter 16).
• Magnifier: search your Samaj.
• Toolbox icon: opens the Toolbox.
• Three-dot menu: the menu.

• Family Tree: shows a badge for family notifications.
• Matrimony: shows a badge for new interests.
• Gallery: shows a badge for new photos. Admins also see posts waiting for approval.
• Camera: takes a photo or video and drops it as a pin for your Samaj.
• Radar: shows a green number for pins near you. Tap to open the radar. Long-press to set the radius.
• Business bag: opens your business. It turns green once your business has a name and at least one product with a photo and price.

1. Long-press the Radar icon.
2. A sheet called Nearby Pin Radius opens.
3. Pick your distance in km. The green number only counts Samaj pins within this distance.

• Contacts: wall brick, title, megaphone (your Contacts Voice Status), search, toolbox and the menu.
• Social (Social Circle): search, toolbox and the menu.
• Business (Business Circle): a header noting that businesses are verified with 2+ govt. credentials, plus the toolbox and the menu.

• Mitra, the star button (on Contacts, Samaj and Social), opens Mitra. It holds Relation Analysis for your chats and your Thread Diary (see Chapter 15).
• Trip (on Contacts and Samaj) opens the Trip Planner.

They hide automatically while you have a chat open.

• Samaj, Contacts and Social tabs: Profile, App Theme, Notification Sound, Language, Blocked Users, Reminders, Home screen icons (on phones that support it) and Logout. On the Samaj tab, admins also see Manage Admins. The Social tab's menu also has New Group.
• Business tab: Refresh, Home screen icons, About and Logout.

You have not joined a Samaj yet, or your request was rejected. Complete the form (see 1.4). The tab then opens normally.

Your village group has been merged with other villages of the same caste. The label shows the combined group.

Yes. On screens wide enough (about 700 px or more) the app shows a split view with the list on the left and the open chat on the right. Until you pick a chat, the right side shows a "start a chat" placeholder.

They count things that need your attention. Each tab shows the total of its own items. A number above 99 shows as 99+.

• Contacts: unread private chats, new posts and approvals on your wall, activity on your contacts' walls, new radar pins from contacts, voice messages left for you in Contacts, and contacts with a status you have not heard.
• Samaj: unread community chats, your wall, activity on Samaj members' walls, new radar pins from members, gallery items, new matrimony interests, family tree notifications, voice messages left for you in Samaj, and members with an unheard status.
• Social: unread group chats.
• Business: no badge.

It is the total of all tab badges added together. Your own wall is counted once, even though it appears on two tabs.

• Chat unread: opening the chat.
• My wall: opening your wall. Posts waiting for your approval stay counted until you approve or reject them.
• Another person's wall activity: opening that person's wall.
• New radar pins: viewing that person's pins.
• Gallery, new approved posts: opening the Gallery.
• Gallery, waiting for approval (admins): an admin approves or rejects the post, or it is published automatically. Opening the Gallery does not clear it.
• Matrimony: tapping the Matrimony icon.
• Family Tree: opening the Family Tree.
• Voice message left for you: listening to it.
• Unheard status: listening to that status.

New posts on your wall start as pending and need your approval. They count for you until you approve or reject them. They only appear to others once approved.

Three badges show only inside their own screen: the Radar's live "pins near me" number (it changes with your radius), the Interests tab count in the Matrimony dashboard, and the pending merge requests count in Village Connection.

The wall and pin counters are re-checked every hour. Wall posts from the last 15 days and pins from the last 30 days are included. Older pins count as already seen.

If an unread message is deleted for everyone, the receiver's unread number goes down.

Some phones (for example Xiaomi) show the number of notifications still in the notification shade. When you return to KuhuChat, it clears its old notifications and sets the exact total again. If the app is fully closed, the icon shows your phone's own notification-based number until you open the app.

• New private, group and Samaj chat messages.
• A new post on your wall, and wall posts approved on a wall you follow.
• New gallery posts and newly approved gallery posts.
• New radar pins from contacts or your Samaj.
• Family tree relation requests and changes.
• Matrimony interests: sent, resent, accepted, rejected and unmatched.
• Group invites.
• A voice status posted by someone, and a voice message left for you.
• Your reminders.
• A Diary thread deleted by its owner.

• Private message: opens the Contacts tab, then that chat.
• Group message: opens the Social tab, then that group chat.
• Samaj chat message: opens the Samaj tab, then that chat.
• Family tree request: opens the Family Tree at that request.
• Radar pin: opens that pin.
• Wall activity: opens the wall.
• Group invite: opens the app home.
• Reminder: opens the Reminders screen.
• Voice status or voice message: opens that person's status screen.

This works even if the app was fully closed.

Open the three-dot menu, tap Notification Sound, and use the Notification tab. The options are Kuhu (long), Koel (short) and Phone default. Tap the play button beside a sound to preview it.

No. Reminders have their own sound settings, so changing one never changes the other. The reminder options are Cuckoo Clock, Koel (long) and Phone default. They are set on the Reminder tab of the same screen. Reminders use longer sounds on purpose, so you do not miss them.

Tap the notification and the voice note plays. If you tap a second reminder while one is playing, the first stops so they do not overlap.

Yes. They still show, and they use the right sound for what they are. A reminder uses your reminder sound, and a chat message uses your notification sound.

When your message reaches the other person's phone, the app marks it as delivered. You see the status tick on your side.

1. Check that notifications are allowed for KuhuChat in your phone settings.
2. Make sure you have internet.
3. Check that your phone is not muting or restricting KuhuChat in battery-saver settings.
4. Log out and log in again if it still does not work.

1. Tap the three dots and choose App Theme.
2. Pick a colour tab: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Teal, Blue, Purple or Grey.
3. Tap a colour.

The colour applies everywhere immediately and a "Theme updated!" message appears. There are 94 named colours, such as Rose Red, Saffron, Sunflower and Maroon.

It fine-tunes your chosen colour. The default is the original shade, sliding toward Lighter makes it paler, and toward Darker makes it deeper. The slider has 24 steps.

It chooses how the top bar looks.

• Colored: the bar uses your chosen colour.
• White: the bar is white with dark text and icons, and your colour is used as the accent.

A small preview card shows how your choices look before you leave the screen.

Tap Reset to Default. It returns the app to Saffron.

Yes. It is saved on your phone and kept after you close the app. It is not shared between devices, so set it again on a new phone.

No. It only changes your own screen.

Not at the moment. KuhuChat uses a light look, and you choose the colour and the top-bar style.

Yes. The status bar and navigation bar icons adjust to match your colour or the white top bar so they stay readable.

Tap the three dots on the Samaj, Contacts or Social tab and choose Notification Sound. The Sound screen has two tabs: Notification (chat messages) and Reminder (your reminders).

Kuhu (long), Koel (short) and Phone default. Kuhu is selected until you change it. Tap the play button beside a sound to hear it. Phone default has nothing to preview because it uses your phone's own sound.

Cuckoo Clock, Koel (long) and Phone default. Phone default is selected until you change it. Cuckoo Clock and Koel can be previewed with the play button.

Yes. On the Reminders screen, tap the music-note icon. The Sound screen opens directly on the Reminder tab.

No. Your choice applies the moment you tap it.

Yes. Your choice is saved on your phone and on KuhuChat's server, so notifications that arrive while the app is closed use the sound you picked.

No. The two settings are separate on purpose.

1. Tap the three dots at the top right of any tab (or the three dots on My Profile).
2. Tap Logout.
3. Confirm "Are you sure you want to logout?" by tapping Logout again.

You return to the login screen.

KuhuChat clears the chat and contact copies saved on that phone, stops any business location alerts for your account, and signs you out. Your messages, posts and account stay safe on your account and come back when you log in again.

Nothing from your account stays behind for the next person who logs in on the same phone.

No. Logging out is not deleting. Log in again with the same mobile number to continue where you left off.

1. On the Samaj, Contacts, Social or Business tab, open the menu at the top right.
2. Tap the red Delete Account button near the bottom.
3. Read the warnings.
4. Decide what happens to your posts (see the next question).
5. Type DELETE in the box. The red button only becomes active when the word matches.
6. Tap Permanently Delete Account.

By default they are deleted. If you tick the box "Keep my posts, gallery photos and pins for my Samaj", they stay for your Samaj and show as "Deleted user", with no name, photo or phone number. The Review my pins button lets you look at your pins before you decide. Your own wall and your Diary threads are always deleted.

• Your profile, login, reminders, trips, Mitra chats and contacts.
• Your family tree entries, matrimony profile, admin applications and votes. If you are a village admin, the admin seat is handed over.
• Your group memberships. A group is deleted when its last member leaves.
• The messages you sent in group and Samaj chats.
• Your private one-to-one chats, for both people.
• Your wall, your Diary threads and, unless you chose to keep them, your gallery posts, your posts on other walls and your radar pins.
• Your business in Business Hub, and your follows of other businesses.
• Your group hotel requests.
• The photos, videos and voice notes behind all of the above.

Hotel booking and payment records are kept because the law and accounting rules require it. KuhuChat also keeps one small log entry with no personal details. Star ratings you gave to other businesses are not removed yet.

When the delete finishes, KuhuChat clears the chats and contacts saved on your phone, signs you out and returns to the login screen. The three extra home-screen icons (KuhuTools, KuhuBiz Search, KuhuTrip) are switched off. See Chapter 24 for the full details.

Private one-to-one chats are deleted for both of you. This also stops a phone number that is given to someone new later from opening your old conversation. Copies that other people saved, forwarded or screenshotted are theirs and are not removed.

Your login is removed last, so nothing is lost if a step fails. Sign in again and tap delete again. A very large account can take several minutes. If you see "already running", wait a few minutes and try once more.

Yes. Open app.kuhuchat.com/delete-account, log in with your mobile number and OTP, and follow the same steps.

Chapter 24 explains every step, what is deleted and kept, and what to do if something goes wrong.

No. Deleting is permanent. You can create a new account with the same number later, but it starts empty.

Yes. Use the Delete account page on this website and follow the email option.

If you only want a break, log out. Deleting is for when you want everything removed.

On screens about 700 pixels wide or more, the Contacts, Social and Samaj tabs show two panes. The list is on the left and the open chat is on the right. Until you pick a chat, the right side says "Select a chat to start messaging".

Yes. Open it in Chrome or Edge, log in with your mobile number and OTP, and use it like the app.

• A browser cannot read your phone's contacts, so it shows contacts your phone has already synced.
• Some phone-only features, such as the home-screen icons, are not available.

Yes. Both use the same account.

On Android phones, KuhuChat can add up to three extra icons next to the main app icon: KuhuTools (the Toolbox), KuhuBiz Search (business search) and KuhuTrip (the Trip Planner). The main KuhuChat icon always stays.

1. Tap the three dots and choose Home screen icons.
2. Switch on or off KuhuTools icon, KuhuBiz Search icon or KuhuTrip icon.

When you switch one on, a message confirms "Icon added".

Come back to Home screen icons and switch it off. Do not uninstall the app, because that removes all of KuhuChat.

The option appears on phones that support it. It is Android only and is not available in a browser.

Where your phone allows it, you can add a shortcut. Long-press it later and tap Remove to take it off. If your phone refuses, open Settings, Apps, KuhuChat, Permissions and look for the home screen shortcut permission.

Tap the toolbox icon in the top bar of the Samaj, Contacts, Social or Business tab.

Tap the three dots at the top right of the Samaj, Contacts or Social tab and choose Profile.

The Profile from the Samaj tab is the full version. It shows your Location, Caste and Samaj cards. The Profile from the Contacts or Social tab is shorter and shows your photo, name, mobile number and SMJ Points.

• Your photo, name and a status label.
• Name: you can edit it.
• Location (State, District, Taluka, Native Village) on the full version.
• Caste and Samaj on the full version.
• Mobile Number.
• SMJ Points.
• Account Status, only if the account has been banned.

1. Open Profile.
2. Tap the edit icon on the Name card.
3. Type your new name and tap Save. You see "Saved".

The name cannot be empty. Your contacts and groups see the new name.

1. Tap the camera icon on your photo.
2. Choose a picture from your gallery.
3. Crop it and confirm.

You see "Profile picture updated". Tap your photo to view it full screen.

No. Your mobile number is your account.

No. Your Samaj is set by your village and caste. To change it, see 3.5.

• Village Admin: you are an admin of your village.
• Verified Member: your village admins approved you.
• Verification Pending: you are waiting for approval (see 1.5).

A shield with "Admin" means you are a village admin. A blue tick with "verified" means you are an approved member.

Your account was blocked for breaking the rules. The reason is shown on the card.

Tap their photo or name in a chat, the members list or a contact tile.

• Photo and name.
• Their status label (Village Admin, Verified Member or Verification Pending).
• Mobile number.
• Samaj and Native Village, if they have joined one.
• Business name, if they have a business, with a View Business Profile button.

That number is in your contacts but has no KuhuChat account. You can invite them from your Contacts tab.

The profile could not be found. Check your connection and try again.

No.

If you blocked them, or they blocked you, their content is hidden (see 3.6).

When you add a business name in your Business Hub, your profile shows it as a Business card with a View Business Profile button. People who open your profile can tap it to see your business.

Tap the business bag icon on the Samaj tab, or open the Business Hub, and follow the steps in the Business chapter.

Your profession can appear on your matrimony biodata. See the Matrimony chapter.

SMJ Points is a points balance shown on your My Profile screen as "SMJ". It starts at 0.

On My Profile, in the highlighted SMJ Points card.

Points are shown on your profile. Details of how points are earned and used will be announced in the app.

When you picked the wrong caste or village, or your registration was for the wrong place.

1. On the Samaj tab, tap the three dots and open Profile.
2. Tap the edit icon on the Caste card (the Location card edit works the same way).
3. Read the "Start Samaj again?" warning.
4. Type CONFIRM and tap Continue.
5. Wait while it resets. The registration form opens.
6. Choose your caste, subcaste and village and tap JOIN SAMAJ.

• Your family tree and relations (your relatives will be told).
• Your matrimony profile and interests.
• Your admin seat, admin applications and merge votes.

Your chats, contacts, posts and businesses.

Your new village may need to approve you (see 1.5).

You must type CONFIRM exactly. It does not matter whether it is capital or small letters.

You see "Something went wrong. Please try again." Check your internet and try again.

Long-press a person in your Contacts list or in your Samaj members list, then tap Block. Confirm the question.

They cannot message you or see your wall, family tree, business or status. You also stop seeing theirs. Their tile shows a Blocked label.

If you blocked them, tapping your tile shows "This contact is private". They are not told that you blocked them.

"You've blocked this contact".

1. Tap the three dots and open Blocked Users.
2. Tap Unblock beside the person.
3. Confirm "Unblock [name]?".

You will be able to see and interact with them again.

In Blocked Users. If it is empty you see "No blocked users".

No. Only people who have a KuhuChat account can be blocked.

• Wall brick icon (left): opens your personal wall and shows a count for new activity.
• Your Samaj name (centre): your village, or a combined name if your village is connected with others. Tap it to open Village Connection (see 4.10).
• Megaphone: your voice status and voice messages left for you.
• Magnifier: Samaj Search (see 4.4).
• Toolbox icon: opens the Toolbox.
• Three-dot menu: Profile, App Theme, Notification Sound, Language, Blocked Users, Reminders, Home screen icons and Logout. Admins also see Manage Admins.

• Family Tree, with a badge for family notifications.
• Matrimony, with a badge for new interests.
• Gallery, with a badge for new photos. Admins also see posts waiting for approval.
• Camera: takes a photo or video and drops it as a pin for your Samaj.
• Radar, with a green number for pins near you. Long-press it to set the radius.
• Business bag: opens your business. It turns green once your business has a name and one product with a photo and price.

Your membership is Pending, Needs verification or Rejected (see 1.5). They unlock once you are approved.

The Mitra star button opens Mitra (Relation Analysis and your Thread Diary, see Chapter 15), and Trip opens the Trip Planner. They hide while you have a chat open.

It is your list of Samaj members. Tap a member to open a private chat with them inside your Samaj. The chat works like any other private chat (see the Chat chapter for photos, voice messages, reminders and more).

The member with the latest activity is on top, such as a new message or a new item from them.

Tap the member. If you have not chatted before, you see an empty chat. Type your message and send.

Unread messages from that member. Opening the chat clears it.

Yes. Long-press the member.

• Clear chat for me removes the chat from your list only.
• Clear chat for both permanently deletes the chat for both of you. The member is not removed from your Samaj.

You blocked that member or they blocked you. You cannot open their chat, wall or business (see 3.6).

You can chat with your contacts and groups. The Samaj member list stays locked until you are approved.

Chats are encrypted (see the Chat chapter).

Approved members of your Samaj group. If your village is connected with other villages, members of those villages are included. People who were once connected but later separated show "No Longer Connected".

• Megaphone: that member's voice status.
• Mitra: open Relation Analysis for your chat with that member (see 17.1).
• Wall: view their personal wall.
• Tree: view their family tree.
• Radar pin: view their memories. It highlights when they have new ones.
• Business bag: view their business. It looks inactive when they have none ("No Business Yet").

That is your own tile. Your own voice status opens from it.

You see "[Name] has no memories yet".

New members waiting for approval appear at the top for village admins, with Approve and Reject buttons. Everyone else sees only approved members.

Rejecting needs two different admins (see 4.8).

Tap the magnifier at the top of the Samaj tab. Samaj Search opens with two tabs, Members and Pehchan.

Type a name or part of a name. It searches your Samaj members. It also finds names written in another script, so you can search in English for a name written in Gujarati or Hindi. If nothing matches you see "No results for [text]".

Yes. The Chats tab searches messages in your Samaj chats and shows the member and time.

You have not joined a Samaj yet. Join one from the Samaj tab (see 1.4).

Your Samaj has no approved members yet, or your search did not match anyone.

Use the Pehchan tab for phone numbers (see 4.5).

Pehchan shows how you are connected to someone through people you both know. Type their mobile number and it finds the shortest chain of connections.

1. Open Samaj Search and tap the Pehchan tab.
2. Tap Sync once so KuhuChat can use your contacts. The message "Sync your network for social proof." explains this. You see "Samaj Network Synced!" when done.
3. Enter the person's mobile number.
4. Read the result.

• Direct: you know each other.
• 1°, 2° or 3° Contact: connected through your phone contacts, with the names of the people in between.
• 1°, 2° or 3° Samaj Connection: connected through your Samaj and families.
• No direct path found, but you share the same Samaj: no chain was found, but both of you belong to the same Samaj.
• No connection within 3 degrees: nobody links you within three steps.
• This is your number: you typed your own number.
• Connection error: try again.

KuhuChat uses only scrambled (hashed) versions of phone numbers for matching. Your contact names are not shown to others.

Sync is needed to find contact-based connections. Without it you may still see Samaj-based results.

So you can recognise the person you searched for.

An admin is a trusted member who approves new members and posts for the village. Each village has up to 3 admins.

• Automatically if they are among the first two members of a village, or if the village has no admin.
• Later, through admin applications and votes (see 4.7).

• Review pending members (4.8).
• Review pending gallery posts (4.9).
• Manage admins (4.7).

On the Samaj tab, tap the three dots and choose Manage Admins. Only admins see this option.

• Current Admins, with Remove and Keep buttons for each other admin.
• Applicants for Admin, with supporter counts and Support buttons.

Tap Apply on the Applicants section. You see "Applied! Members can now vote for you." You can cancel with Cancel Application. Your support votes are cleared.

• You are already an admin for this village.
• You have already applied.
• Application withdrawn.

By votes. Each voter taps Remove or Keep on an admin. The result is the number of Remove votes minus Keep votes.

10 percent of the village's members, and never fewer than 2. For example 10 members need 2, 100 members need 10, 200 members need 20. The screen shows "[n] net votes needed to remove" and the member count.

Not below 10 members. You see "Removal disabled — village needs 10+ members".

Yes. Voting the same choice again withdraws your vote. Voting the other choice switches it. You cannot vote on yourself.

The applicant with the most supporters. If supporters are equal, the one who applied earlier wins. The new admin starts with a clean vote count.

It adds your support to an applicant. Tap Supporting to withdraw it.

Counts are shown. Individual votes are not listed.

On the Pending Members screen, and at the top of the Samaj members list. Each request shows the person's name, village and how long ago they joined ("Joined 2h ago"). The screen says "New member — pending review".

• Verify Member: approves the person straight away. You see "Member verified successfully".
• Ask to Verify: asks the person to confirm their identity. You see "Member asked to verify their identity".
• Reject: counts as one reject vote. You see "Reject vote recorded (1/2). One more admin needs to reject."

Two different admins. After the second vote you see "Member request rejected."

You see "You already voted to reject this member."

You see "This request was already resolved by another admin."

You see "No pending members. All members are verified."

Their status changes to Permanent, Needs verification or Rejected (see 1.5). When verification is requested, the admins' names and phone numbers are listed so they can call.

Posts that members add to the Samaj Gallery wait for admin review before everyone sees them (see the Gallery chapter).

Open the Pending Posts screen. Each post shows the member, the media (photo, video, audio or document), when it was posted, and "Auto-publishes in" a countdown.

• Approve: you see "Post approved and published to gallery".
• Reject: asks "This will permanently remove the post. Are you sure?" then "Post rejected and removed".

After 1 hour the post is published automatically.

You see "No pending posts. All posts have been reviewed."

Yes. The admin badge on the Gallery icon goes down once a post is approved, rejected or published automatically.

It lets your village group connect with other villages of the same caste, so members of both groups share one Samaj group. Each group is a subcaste of a village, for example one subcaste in one village.

Tap your Samaj name at the top of the Samaj tab.

• Your Village and your Current Cluster of connected villages.
• Find a Group, to search for another group.
• Pending Requests, with a Vote button.
• Separation Votes.
• A "How it works" note: select your village, another village sends a merge request, both villages vote to merge.

1. Tap Find a Group.
2. Choose State, District, Taluka and Village.
3. Choose the group. You see "Selected: [caste] of [village]".
4. Tap Send request to this group.

You see "Request sent. Both groups need 10 votes."

10 votes from each group. When both reach 10 they connect automatically. There is no separate accept step.

Open Pending Requests, check "Requested by [name]" and tap Vote. You can only vote for your own group. Other groups show "Not your group".

You cannot send a request to your own village ("This is your own village!"). A village with no members shows "This village has no members yet." A profile without a caste shows "Caste profile incomplete".

Tap Vote to Leave Cluster, choose the specific village you want to disconnect from, and confirm. You see "Your vote to separate has been cast." Disconnecting from one village does not affect your other connections.

15 votes from your own group. The other group cannot block it.

Yes, with a new request and the same 10 votes from each group.

Your Samaj name shows the combined group, and members, chats and the gallery include the connected villages.

The result is counted by KuhuChat's server, not by your phone, so it cannot be changed from the app.

It is a map of your family. You are one pin, and every relative you add is another pin on the map, placed at their village or home. Lines join you to each relative. It keeps your family connected across villages and cities.

On the Samaj tab, tap the green tree icon in the row of icons under the top bar. If something is waiting for you, a number appears on the icon.

• Your own pin, in gold with a home mark and your village name.
• A pin for each relative, showing their name and your relation to them.
• A box at the top left saying how many connections you have.
• Four buttons at the top right: Refresh, Toggle satellite, Toggle lines and Fit all.
• Plus and minus buttons to zoom.
• Directory and Add Relative at the bottom.

• Gold: you.
• Green: a confirmed relative. Both of you agreed on the relation.
• Red: a relative who has not confirmed yet, or a relative added by hand who has no KuhuChat account.
• Dark red with a cross: a broken link. That person removed the relation (see 5.4).

A solid green line joins you to a confirmed relative. A dashed red line joins you to a relative who is not confirmed yet. Broken links have no line.

• Refresh: reloads the tree.
• Toggle satellite: switches between the normal map and the satellite view.
• Toggle lines: shows or hides the lines between pins.
• Fit all: zooms the map so that every pin is visible.

It is the number of people on your map, counting you.

1. Long-press your gold pin.
2. Drag it to your exact home.
3. Release it. A box asks "Set your home pin here?" and says only you can move this pin and your relatives will see you at this exact spot.
4. Tap Save. You see "Home pin saved". Tap Cancel to put it back.

Once you have set your own spot, KuhuChat always uses it.

At your native village, from the place list. Pins of your relatives are placed the same way, at their village.

When several people live in the same place, their pins would sit on top of each other. KuhuChat spreads them out a little so each one can be tapped. When you zoom in close, pins that still overlap are nudged apart so every name is readable.

No. Only the person a pin belongs to can move it.

A list of everyone on the map. Tap Directory at the bottom to open it. It is called "Family Directory" on your tree and "[Name]'s Family" on someone else's tree. It shows how many people there are, and a legend: You, Confirmed, Pending and Broken.

Each row shows the photo, name, relation and village. From a row you can:

• Tap the photo to see it full screen. You can pinch to zoom.
• Tap Show on map to jump to that pin.
• Tap Remove to take the relative out of your tree (see 5.4).
• Confirm or Dismiss, when a banner is shown under the row (see 5.3).

A card opens from the bottom with the photo, name, relation, village and status. If the relative has a KuhuChat account, a button "View [Name]'s Family Tree" opens their tree.

Other members of your Samaj can open your tree in view-only mode from the tree icon on your tile in the Members list. People looking at your matrimony profile can also open it if you have added relatives. They can look but cannot change anything.

Open the Members list and tap the green tree icon on their tile. The map opens in view-only mode, with a "[Name]'s Relations" button at the bottom and a "My Tree" button at the top right to come back to your own tree.

You or that person has blocked the other. A blocked person cannot open the tree (see 3.6).

Yes. A new tree starts with just your gold pin. Tap Add Relative to build it (see 5.2).

No. Your tree is tied to your native village, so it stays exactly as it is when villages merge or separate.

Yes. The map and your relatives load from your account, so you need a connection.

1. Open your Family Tree.
2. Tap Add Relative at the bottom. The screen "Expand Banyan Tree" opens.
3. Choose From Samaj or Manual Entry (see below).
4. Pick the relation, check the name and tap CONNECT TO BANYAN TREE.

You see "Relative added successfully!"

• From Samaj: for a relative who is already a member of your Samaj on KuhuChat. They get a request and must confirm. Their own tree also shows you.
• Manual Entry: for a relative who is not on KuhuChat. You type their name and place. No request is sent, and nobody needs to confirm.

1. Tap the From Samaj tab.
2. Under "Search Samaj members:", type a name or a phone number in the "Name or phone…" box.
3. Tap the person in the list. Their name and village appear in a card.
4. Tap Select Relation and choose how that person is related to you.
5. If a box asks "Clarify your relation", tell it who you are to them (see below).
6. Check the name. You can change how it appears in your tree.
7. Tap CONNECT TO BANYAN TREE.

Members of your own Samaj, including villages merged with yours. You do not see yourself, and you do not see anyone you have blocked or who has blocked you. People already in your tree are greyed out with the note that they have already been added.

Some relations can go two ways. If you pick "Father", the app needs to know whether you are their Son or their Daughter, so that their tree shows the right relation. The box says "Your [relation] is in the system. Who are you to them?" Tap the right answer. Tap Cancel if you picked the wrong relation.

1. Tap the Manual Entry tab.
2. Tap Select Relation and choose the relation.
3. Type the Full Name.
4. Choose the location (see below).
5. Add a house or street if you like. It is optional.
6. Tap CONNECT TO BANYAN TREE.

There are two ways.

• Tap Search & pin on map. Search for the village, taluka or district, or drop a pin on the map.
• Or go step by step: State, then District, then Sub-District (Taluka), then Village. You may stop at the district or the taluka. At those steps you can tap "Don't know it — pin on map instead".

A location is needed. If it cannot be worked out you see "Location could not be resolved."

Search for it in the Search & pin box. If it is not found, drop a pin on the map at the exact spot. You will see a note that the exact spot you picked was saved, even though it is not in the place list yet.

103 relation names, in 13 groups, each in all 13 app languages. The groups are Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Siblings-in-law, Grandparents, Grandchildren, Great Grandparents, Great Grandchildren, Paternal Relatives, Maternal Relatives, Nephews and Nieces, and In-Laws. They include family words such as Dada, Nana, Chacha, Mama, Jeth, Devar, Saala and Bhabhi, and step, adopted and foster relations.

Yes. Relations are shown in the language you chose for the app (see 2.1). Two people who use different languages each see the same relation in their own language.

Pick the cousin relation that matches, for example "Chachera Bhai" or "Mausera Bhai". For some cousins the app shows four choices when it asks "Clarify your relation", because it cannot know whether the uncle is older or younger. Pick the one that fits.

For a Samaj member, their tree shows you with the matching reverse relation. For example, if you add them as your "Son", they see you as their "Father" or "Mother", whichever you chose. They get a notification asking them to confirm (see 5.3).

Not directly. Remove the person (see 5.4) and add them again with the correct relation.

No. You see "This person is already in your family tree." If the earlier link was broken because the person removed it, you can add them again.

• "Select a Samaj member." You have not tapped a person in the list.
• "Select a relation." Choose a relation before saving.
• "Enter the person's name." The name cannot be empty.
• "This person is not available to add." The person is blocked or you are blocked. You cannot add each other while blocked.
• "Selected user has no location data." That member has no place saved yet.
• "Could not fetch location. Check connection." Check your internet and try again.
• "Save failed. Check your connection and try again." Try again when you are online.

Add as many as you like. Repeat the steps for each one.

So nobody can claim a relation that is not true. When you add a Samaj member, the relation stays pending until that person agrees.

• Your tree shows them with a red pin and a dashed red line, marked pending.
• Their tree shows you with the matching reverse relation.
• They get a notification: "New Family Connection Request".

1. Tap the notification. It opens your tree and shows a card: "[Name] connected to you as [relation]. Confirm if this is correct."
2. Tap Confirm Relation. You see "✓ Relation confirmed!"

You can also open Directory and tap Confirm on that person's row.

Only the person who was added. The person who added the relation cannot confirm it. If they try, they see "You added this — nothing to confirm on your side."

When you tap that pin, the card says "Waiting for [Name] to confirm". On someone else's tree you see "Pending confirmation".

The pin turns green, the line becomes solid, and the card says "Confirmed & linked". The person who added you gets a notification: "Family Connection Confirmed ✅".

Until the other person confirms, or one of you removes it. There is no time limit.

KuhuChat matches the two entries. If the other person had already confirmed you, your entry is confirmed at once.

A relative is linked when they have a KuhuChat account and have confirmed. You can then tap their pin and open "View [Name]'s Family Tree" to see their relatives too. This is how families of different villages join up.

Open Directory and tap Remove on that person's row. They are told that you removed the relation (see 5.4).

No. A relative added by hand has no account, so nobody can confirm. They show in red because they are not linked.

Remove the relation (see 5.4) and ask them to add you again if needed.

1. Open your Family Tree and tap Directory.
2. Tap the bin icon on the person's row.
3. A box titled "Remove Relation" asks you to confirm. Tap Remove, or Cancel to stop.

You see "Relation removed".

No. The gold pin is your own origin and you see "Origin pin cannot be removed."

• They get a notification: "Family Connection Removed 🌳".
• Their entry for you turns into a broken link: a dark red pin with a cross, marked "Relation removed".
• A banner says "[Name] has removed the relation with you."

It is what you see when someone removed the relation with you. Tap Remove broken link in the Directory (or "Remove from my tree" on the card) to clear it. The message "Removed from your tree" confirms it. You can also tap Dismiss on the banner in the Directory.

No. Relatives added by hand have no account, so they are deleted silently.

Yes. Any old broken link is cleared when you add them again. They get a new request to confirm.

No. Add the person again and ask them to confirm.

No. It only changes the family tree.

Yes. Changing your Samaj deletes your family tree (see 3.5).

• "New Family Connection Request 🌳": someone added you as a relative. Tap to confirm.
• "Family Connection Confirmed ✅": someone confirmed the relation you added.
• "Family Connection Removed 🌳": someone removed the relation with you.

For a new request, your tree opens and the confirm card for that person opens by itself. For the other two, the app opens on its home screen. Open your tree to see what changed. This works even if the app was closed.

It counts family tree notifications you have not looked at yet. It also adds to the number on the Samaj tab and your app icon (see 2.3).

Open your Family Tree. All family tree notifications are marked as seen. The number also clears if you tap the tree icon on your own tile in the Members list.

KuhuChat does not keep a notification list for the tree. Open the Family Tree and check the Directory. Relations waiting for you show an amber banner with Confirm. Broken links show a red banner.

No.

• The relative was added by hand, so no account was notified.
• Notifications are switched off for KuhuChat in your phone settings (see 2.4).
• Your internet or battery saver is blocking them.

No. When you add, confirm or remove a relative, only the other person is notified.

Your Matrimony dashboard has a card called My Family Tree. It shows your relatives in a list, so you can see your family at a glance without opening the map.

• The number of family members.
• How many are verified and how many are pending.
• A View Map button that opens your Banyan map.
• Your relatives grouped by type, such as Parent, Sibling, Spouse, Child, Grandparent and Aunt / Uncle. Scroll sideways to see them all.

Tap a relative to see their photo, name, relation, group, and whether they are Verified or Pending. Below that, if known, you see their Samaj and their location: village, sub-district, district and state.

You have not added any relatives yet. Tap Start Your Tree to open the map and add the first one (see 5.2).

People who open your matrimony profile see your family card too, as view-only. They do not see a "build" prompt, and if you have no relatives, the card is not shown at all.

No. Others can only look.

Yes. Both read the same tree. Add, confirm or remove a relative on the map and the card updates the next time it loads.

It is a rishta (match-making) section built into your Samaj. You make a biodata, browse profiles of other Samaj members, send an interest, and when the other person accepts you can see each other's contact number. There is no payment and no agent in between.

Open the Samaj tab and tap the Matrimony icon in the icon row under the top bar. The Matrimony icon shows a green badge when someone has sent you an interest.

The My Matrimony screen. It shows your biodata card (photo, name, age, caste, key details and how complete it is), your interests (people who have expressed interest in you), a Browse Profiles button, and three cards: My Samaj Profile, My Business Hub and My Tree.

You have not made a matrimony profile yet. Tap Create biodata and fill the form (see 6.2). You can browse only after you set up your profile.

Matrimony needs your Samaj registration first. Join your Samaj from the Samaj tab (see 1.4), then come back.

It counts new activity: a new interest received, or a reply to an interest you sent (accepted, declined or unmatched). It clears when you open the Matrimony screen.

No. By default you see profiles from your caste group (the app shows "Showing profiles from your caste group"). You can narrow this with filters (see 6.4).

Open Matrimony, tap Create biodata, fill the form and tap Save Profile. The same form opens when you tap Edit Profile on your biodata card.

Five things are needed before Save Profile works: your full name, your date of birth, About me, your current address, and at least 2 photos. Required fields are marked with a red star.

Gender, marital status, height (in cm), education, profession, annual income, mother tongue, religion, and caste or subcaste. Only the required fields must be filled, but a fuller biodata gets more attention and a higher match score (see 6.4).

Never married, divorced or widowed.

Yes. You must be at least 18 years old. If your date of birth makes you younger, the app shows "Must be at least 18 years old" and will not save.

It is where you add your birth details for horoscope matching: birth time, birth country and birth place. It is optional. Add it if your family matches horoscopes.

It tells people where you live now. You can search a place and pin it on the map using Search & pin on map, or type your address. Country is chosen from a list.

Each profile belongs to the account that made it, and the profile uses that account's Samaj details. To create a profile for a family member, they should log in with their own mobile number and create it themselves.

No. Each account has one matrimony profile.

Open Matrimony and tap Edit Profile on your biodata card, change what you need and tap Save Profile. Editing does not hide your profile and does not cancel interests you already sent or received.

The caste field is linked to your Samaj registration where available. If you need to change your caste or village, do it through Change your Samaj (see 3.5), because it also resets your family tree and matrimony profile.

At least 2 and at most 6. Until you add 2, the form shows how many more you need and Save Profile stays off.

In the Photos section tap the "+" box and pick pictures from your phone. You can pick several at once. If you pick more than the limit, extra photos are skipped and the app tells you only 6 are allowed.

You will see "Upload failed". Check your internet and add that photo again. Photos that did upload stay in the form.

Tap the small red cross on the photo, then add a new one. You must still end up with at least 2 photos when you save.

The first photo in your list is the main picture on your card, so remove and re-add photos if you want a different main picture.

A quick score on your biodata card based on seven things: name, at least one photo, education, profession, height, About me and mother tongue. The card tells you how much to add to reach 100%.

A complete biodata gives people more to look at, and profiles with a photo get a higher match score on others' screens.

They are deleted along with the profile (see 6.12).

Open Matrimony and tap Browse Profiles. Scroll through the cards. Tap a card to open the full profile.

Active profiles of the opposite gender from your own, from your own caste group. Your own profile is never shown. Each screen loads up to 50 profiles, so use search and filters to narrow down.

No. To keep browsing relevant and safe, the app always shows the opposite gender and this cannot be switched.

A match score out of 99. It starts from a base and goes up when you share the same mother tongue, education and profession, and when the other profile has photos. Green means a strong match, orange a fair one. It is a quick guide only, not a promise of compatibility.

The photo, name and age, and small chips showing if the person has a business or a verified family tree and how many.

Type in the search bar at the top. It looks at name, village, profession, education, mother tongue, caste and community.

Tap the filter icon in the search bar. You can filter by age range (starts at 18 to 50), marital status, education, profession, mother tongue and caste or subcaste. Under "Show only" you can also choose profiles with photos, profiles with a business, or profiles with a family tree.

Tap Clear all in the chips row under the search bar, or Reset in the filter sheet. You can also remove one chip at a time.

No profile matches your search and filters. Try widening the age range, removing a filter, or check back later as new profiles are added.

The person may have hidden, renewed or removed their profile, or your filters may exclude them.

No. They match loosely, so "B. ED" and "Teacher" in a profile can still match the filter options.

Their photos (swipe through them), name and age, marital status, height, education, profession, annual income, mother tongue, religion, caste, date of birth details, About me, and the cards for Samaj profile, business and family tree if they have them.

Not until you are connected. Contact details open only after an interest is accepted (see 6.8).

If a profile shows a family tree, you can open it in view-only mode from their profile.

Yes. The profile screen keeps the list you came from, so you can move through the profiles without going back each time.

The app does not show any "viewed by" list.

Open the person's profile and tap Send Interest. You will see "Interest sent!". The person gets a notification and a badge. You need your own matrimony profile first, otherwise the app says "Create your marriage profile first".

Not while one is already waiting. If your interest is pending, the app says you already have a pending interest with that profile. If they have already accepted, it says you are already connected.

On their profile the button changes: "Interest Sent - Awaiting response", "Connected!", or "Send Interest Again". You can also see all your interests under Sent in the Interests screen (see 6.9).

Yes, after a 30-day wait. During the wait the app says "You can send a new interest to this profile in N day(s)". After 30 days, Send Interest Again appears.

Only the person who declined can shorten it. If they choose "Allow them to request again", you can send a fresh interest right away.

Yes, straight away. There is no wait after withdrawing.

Yes, there is no cooldown after an unmatch, unless the other person blocked you.

That profile has chosen not to receive interests from you. You cannot send one.

No. There is always a single entry per pair of people. A resend turns that same entry back to pending and notifies them again.

Your interest is sent with your biodata. Once the person accepts, you can introduce yourself using their contact details.

The app does not set a limit.

Open the notification, or Matrimony > Interests > Received. On the person's profile you will see "This person has expressed interest in your profile" with Accept Interest and Reject buttons. In the Received list the buttons are Accept and Decline.

You see "Interest accepted! You are now connected." You and the other person become connected, and each of you can see the other's contact number. The sender gets a notification.

Yes. A confirmation asks you to confirm and explains that by accepting both of you will be able to see each other's contact details.

The status becomes rejected and the sender is told that there is an update on their interest (the notification does not say who declined or why). The sender can try again after 30 days unless you allow it sooner.

No. Declining only ends this request. To stop all future interests from the person, use Block (see 6.10).

In Interests > Received, find the declined request and tap "Allow them to request again". The person can then send a new interest at once. You cannot undo the decline itself.

Open the person's profile or go to Interests > Sent, tap Withdraw Interest and confirm. You will see "Interest withdrawn". You can send a new one later.

Yes. Use Unmatch (see 6.8).

A "Connected!" label on the profile and the other person's phone number. You can also see this in the Sent or Received list under that person's card.

Yes. The accept notification says you can now chat. The phone number is for calling or messaging on your own.

Only people whose interest you accepted, or who accepted your interest. Nobody else can see it on your matrimony profile.

Open the profile or the Received/Sent list and tap Unmatch. A box asks you to confirm, and an option lets you also block the person. The other person gets an update notification. Their number is hidden from you again and yours from them.

Yes, either person can send a new interest, unless one of you blocked the other.

Matrimony > Interests. It has two tabs: Received (people who sent you an interest) and Sent (interests you sent).

Pending: waiting for a reply. Accepted: connected. Rejected: declined. Withdrawn: the sender took it back. Unmatched: a connection that was ended.

Received, pending: Accept or Decline, or open the profile. Received, declined: Allow them to request again, or Block. Sent, pending: Withdraw. Either tab, accepted: Unmatch. Finished requests can be deleted from your list.

Open the request and tap the delete option. The app asks "Delete this request?". Deleting only clears it from your list.

The person removed their profile or it expired. The request stays in your list, but you cannot open it.

In the Interests screen, tap the blocked profiles icon in the top bar (see 6.10).

Open the profile, tap Report, then confirm "Are you sure you want to report this profile?" You will see "Reported. Thank you." The report is recorded against that profile so it can be reviewed.

Fake or misleading details, someone else's photos, abusive behaviour, or anything that feels unsafe.

Tap Block this person on a profile (on received or declined requests and on connections) or Block in the Received list, then confirm. You can also tick "Also block this person" when you unmatch.

That person can no longer send you an interest. They are told they cannot send an interest to this profile. Blocking does not delete the existing request or remove either person from the Samaj.

Blocking stops interests only. It does not hide your profile from them in the browse list.

Open Matrimony > Interests, tap the blocked profiles icon at the top (Blocked Profiles), find the person and tap Unblock. They can send you an interest again.

They get no notification. They only see the message when they try to send an interest.

The form tells you: "Your profile stays visible for 3 months. You can delete it anytime, or it is removed automatically after that."

A banner appears on the My Matrimony screen: "Your profile expires in N days", and when only a couple of days are left it turns red with "renew now!". A Renew button is on the banner.

Tap Renew on the banner. Your biodata opens. Check your details and tap Save Profile.

When the time runs out, your profile is removed automatically and stops showing in browse. You can create a new biodata any time.

Your profile and its interests are removed together, so renew before the date if you have connections you want to keep.

Open My Matrimony, open your biodata card and tap Remove your profile. Read the message, then tap Remove.

Your matrimony profile and photos, every interest you sent or received, your name from other people's blocked lists, and the birth details saved from your Kundli section. This cannot be undone.

Your Samaj registration and profile, your family tree, chats, contacts, wall, gallery, pins and business. Only matrimony data is removed.

Yes, create a new biodata from Matrimony at any time.

You will see "Could not delete the profile right now. Please try again." Check your internet and try again.

It is deleted with its interests (see 3.5). Create a new one after you register in your new Samaj.

New interest: "New Marriage Interest: [Name] has expressed interest in your profile. Tap to view." Accepted: "Interest Accepted! [Name] accepted your interest. You can now chat with them." Declined or unmatched: "Interest Update: You have an update on a marriage interest you sent / one of your marriage connections. Tap to view."

It opens the Interests screen.

Yes. A resent interest is a new pending interest for you, so you get a new notification and badge.

The notification does not say who or why. Open Sent to see the status.

See 2.4. Make sure notifications are allowed for KuhuChat on your phone, you have internet, and battery saver is not restricting the app.

A shared photo, video, audio and document wall for your Samaj. Everyone in your Samaj group can see what members post: weddings, festivals, village events, old photographs and notices.

Open the Samaj tab and tap the Gallery icon in the icon row. The screen is titled Community Gallery. A badge on the icon shows new photos since you last opened it.

Members of your Samaj group, including any villages your group is connected to at the moment you post. Members of other castes, other villages that are not connected, and people outside the app cannot see it in the gallery.

Your older posts keep the audience they had when you posted them. New posts after the merge reach the other village too. If villages are separated later, posts made while they were connected stay visible to both sides, and new posts stop reaching each other (see 4.10).

Photos, videos, audio files and documents.

Tap the round add button at the bottom of the Gallery. Choose what you want to add: photos or videos from your phone, a new photo from the camera, an audio file, or a document. You can select several at once.

After you pick your items, a screen shows them. Swipe between them, type a caption (up to four lines), remove any you do not want, and tap post. The same caption is used for the whole batch.

Five separate posts, one for each item, all with the same caption.

Stages such as compressing, uploading and saving, with a percentage for large files. Photos and videos are compressed first to save data. You can cancel while it is in progress; you will see "Upload cancelled".

You will see a message such as "Compression failed" or an upload error. Check your internet and try again. If some items of a batch succeeded, the app tells you how many posted and how many failed.

If you are an admin, yes: "Posted to gallery!". If you are an ordinary member, you will see "Uploaded - waiting for admin approval" (see 7.2).

Like it, comment on it, share it, download it to your phone, tag it into your Diary, or vote to delete it (see 7.3).

Tap the comment icon on a post. Type under "Add comment..." and send. If a post has many comments, tap "View all N comments". You can delete your own comments. Admins can delete any comment.

Tap the share icon. The link is sent with a short KuhuChat footer so the receiver knows where it came from.

Tap the download icon. The first time, the app asks for permission to save files. When it is done you will see "Saved successfully!". If you refused permission, it says "Permission denied - can't save gallery items". Allow it in your phone settings and try again.

Documents show the file name with "Tap to open document". Tapping opens the file in an app on your phone that can read it.

Nobody in your Samaj group has posted anything that you can see yet. Tap the add button and be the first.

To keep the gallery clean and suitable for the community. Admins of the uploader's village review new posts from members.

The admins of the village the uploader belongs to (their origin village). An admin of another village in your Samaj group cannot approve or reject your post.

Pending posts from their own village appear in the gallery with Approve and Reject buttons. Admins also see these counted on their Gallery icon until they act.

The post goes live for everyone in the group and members are notified (see 7.6).

The post is deleted permanently, with its media. The uploader is not sent a separate notice.

The post is published automatically once it has been pending for about 1 hour. The app checks every few minutes, so it may take a little longer than an hour.

Pending posts show for the village admins who review them. You will see the confirmation "Uploaded - waiting for admin approval" after posting, and the post appears to everyone once it is approved or auto-published.

No. An admin's post goes live immediately.

Tap the delete (bin) icon on your post, then confirm "Are you sure you want to permanently delete this post?". You will see "Post deleted successfully". The photo, video or file is removed from storage too.

Yes, but only the admins of your origin village (the village you registered under). They have the bin icon on your post. Admins of other villages do not.

Yes, through a community vote. Every member can tap the warning icon on a post once to vote. The counter shows the votes so far, for example 3/10. When 10 different members have voted, the post is deleted automatically.

No. Each member gets one vote per post, and the icon is disabled after you vote.

For posts that are inappropriate, offensive, false or harmful to the community. Do not vote just because you disagree with someone.

Approved posts are removed automatically about 3 months (90 days) after they were uploaded.

The post and its photo, video, audio or document, to keep storage under control. Comments and likes go with it.

Download it to your phone with the download icon, or tag it to your Diary (see 7.5). A photo or video tagged to your Diary is kept for as long as it stays in the Diary.

Once a day, at night. A post may therefore stay a little beyond exactly 3 months.

Tap it. In the viewer you can swipe left and right to move to the next or previous item. The back arrow at the top returns you to the list.

Tap the tag button on the post, or swipe it to reveal Tag, then choose a thread. If the post is already in that thread, you will see a message saying so. If a post is still uploading or cannot be tagged, you will see "This post can't be tagged yet."

Press and hold a post to start selecting. Tap more posts. The top bar shows "N selected" and a Tag button. Tap Tag and pick the thread. If none of the selected posts can be tagged, you will see "None of the selected posts can be tagged."

Tap the X in the top bar.

When someone in your Samaj group adds a post that is live: "[Name] added to Gallery - Added a new photo to Gallery" (or "video"). The poster does not get their own notification.

No. Members are notified when the post goes live, either by an admin approving it or after it auto-publishes.

It opens the Gallery.

New approved posts you have not seen. It clears when you open the Gallery. For admins, posts waiting for their approval are also counted until they approve or reject them, or the post is auto-published (see 2.3).

See 2.4. Check that notifications are allowed for KuhuChat, that you are an approved Samaj member (see 1.5), and that your internet and battery settings are not blocking the app.

A map of memory pins. A pin is a photo or video that someone left at the place where it was taken. The Radar shows the pins around you, so you can see what your people have captured nearby: a village function, a temple visit, an old street.

On the Samaj tab, tap the Radar icon in the icon row. A green number on the icon tells you how many Samaj pins are near you (see 8.4).

Yes. It centres the map on where you are and shows pins within your chosen radius. The first time, the app asks for location permission. If you refused it, you will see "Location Blocked". Allow location for KuhuChat in your phone settings and open the Radar again.

Your own pins, pins from people saved in your phone contacts who are on KuhuChat, and pins from members of your Samaj group, including villages your group is connected to. Nobody else sees them.

Tap a marker on the map. The marker shows a small picture of the pin. A viewer opens (see 8.8).

Yes. Open a contact or member card and choose to view their memories. The Radar opens showing only that person's pins.

There may be no pins inside your radius. Try a larger radius (8.3) or a wider date range (8.2). Check that you have internet and location turned on.

It chooses how old the pins should be, measured in days ago. By default it covers everything, from today back as far as the app can go.

Drag the two handles, or tap the range to type exact numbers in the "From" and "To (days ago)" boxes. For example, from 0 to 30 shows pins from the last month.

To keep the map fast, it starts with the most recent pins and widens its search until it finds enough. At first up to 10 are shown. Open the list and pull more when you want to see the rest, up to 50 at a time.

Long-press the Radar icon on the Samaj tab. A sheet called Nearby Pin Radius opens. Choose a distance between 1 and 10 km. The default is 5 km.

Yes. It is saved on your phone. It sets both the area the Radar searches and the distance for the green number on the icon.

How many pins from your Samaj are within your radius and new to you. The sheet says: "Show badge when Samaj pins are within this distance."

When you view that person's pins, their pins are counted as seen. The number is re-checked regularly. Only pins from about the last 30 days are counted; older ones are treated as already seen.

No. Your own pins never light up your badge.

Tap the Camera icon on the Samaj tab icon row. Take a photo, or switch to video and record. Add a caption if you like and confirm. The pin is placed at your current location.

No. A pin uses your location at the moment you capture it, so the Radar shows real places.

A progress message shows steps such as compressing, uploading and saving. When done, you will see "Pinned!". Photos and videos are compressed first to save data.

Your contacts and your Samaj group (see 8.6). They are told that you added a pin (see 8.12).

No. Pins go live straight away, with no admin approval.

No. A pin is shared automatically with the people in your contacts who are on KuhuChat and with your Samaj group.

A pin stays visible to anyone whose Samaj group still includes a village that was part of the group when you posted it.

Pins have no automatic expiry. They stay on the map until you delete them. This differs from Gallery posts (3 months) and Wall posts (15 days).

Tap the List button on the Radar. A sheet opens with the pins, each with a picture, who added it, the caption and how far away it is ("N km away").

Tap the location icon on a pin in the list. The map moves to it.

Press and hold a pin in the list, then tap others. The top shows how many are selected and a Tag button to add them all to your Diary (see 8.13).

See the photo or video full screen, read the caption, see where it was taken and how far away it is, copy a link to the pin ("Link copied"), edit the caption on your own pins, delete your own pins, or tag it to your Diary.

Use the link option. Anyone who opens the link must be someone who can see the pin.

The short label or caption under a pin, such as "Holi 2019, Sathamba". Pins without one show as "Untagged".

Open your own pin and choose Edit caption. Type the new caption and save. Clear the box to make it "Untagged". You cannot edit other people's pins.

On the Radar, tap the My Pins button. It lists your pins from newest to oldest and loads more as you scroll.

Open a pin, delete pins, and long-press to select several. With a selection you can delete them together or tag them all to your Diary. Swiping a pin to the left tags it to your Diary.

Open your pin and choose delete, or use My Pins. Confirm "Delete this pin?". The message says "This cannot be undone."

No. Only you can delete your own pin.

It is removed from KuhuChat's storage. If you tagged the pin to your Diary, the media is kept until nothing else is using it.

Your contacts and members of your Samaj group. The message reads "[Name] added a Nostalgia Pin: Added a photo memory pin near you" (or "video").

The Radar opens at that pin, even if the app was closed.

No.

In any pin list, swipe the pin left to tag it. Or open the pin and use the tag button. Choose the Diary thread. You can also select several pins and tag them together.

A copy of the pin's photo or video and caption is added to your thread, so you can ask AI about it or analyse it with the AI (see Chapters 18 and 19). The original pin stays on the Radar.

Every KuhuChat member has a personal wall, like a shared notice board in front of their house. You and your people leave messages, photos, voice notes, GIFs, drawings and small gestures there.

Tap the brick-wall icon at the top left of the Samaj or Contacts tab. A number on it shows new activity (see 2.3).

From the Contacts tab, open a contact's card and tap View wall. You can also reach a member's wall from the walls shown in your wall activity.

Your contacts and members of your Samaj group, as long as they are connected to you. People you have blocked cannot.

Your village group and theirs used to be connected but have been separated. You can still see their old wall posts, but you cannot post new ones.

Approved posts from others and you, and a pending section with posts waiting for your approval (see 9.3).

Open the wall and use the bar at the bottom. It says "Write on [Name]'s wall". Type a message, or tap the attach button to choose another type of post, then send.

Text, emoji, a photo, a video, a voice note, a GIF (optionally with a music track), a door (see 9.7) or a spray drawing (see 9.4).

Use the microphone in the bar. The first time, the app asks for microphone permission. The bar shows the recording time.

Your post shows as Queued and is sent automatically when you are back online.

You can delete your own posts. As the wall owner, you can remove posts on your own wall.

Yes. Use the share option on a post to send it outside KuhuChat, forward it to a contact, to your Samaj, or to a group. Shared text carries a short KuhuChat footer.

Posts that other people write on your wall wait for you to approve: text, photos, videos and voice notes. Emoji, doors, sprays and GIFs go live straight away.

Open your wall and look at the pending section labelled "Awaiting Approval". Each post shows the author, what it is and how long ago it was sent. Tap Approve to publish it or Remove to delete it. If nothing is waiting, it says "No pending posts".

No. It is visible only to you, and to the person who wrote it, as Pending.

You get a notification "[Name] posted on your wall" with a preview, and "waiting for your approval" if it needs your approval. Your wall badge counts it until you approve or remove it.

No.

A drawing or a piece of wall art that you create right inside the app and leave on someone's wall. Others see it replay as it was drawn, with sparkle.

In the bar, choose Spray wall art. Use the tools: Spray, Draw, Line, Text and Erase, with Undo and Clear. You can also add a template (stickers, gifts, flowers) and a music track. Then tap Done.

You will see "Draw or write something first". Add something and try again.

One template or sticker at a time. Placing a new one asks if you want to replace the current drawing.

No. They go live straight away. The owner is notified: "Sent you a sparkle".

Drag to move, pinch to resize, twist to rotate. There is also a delete button on the sticker.

Animation styles for your sparkle: Glow, Sparkle, Twinkle, Breathe, Heartbeat, Wave, Strobe, Comet, Meteor, Chase, Dotted and Alternate. While a sticker is on the canvas, a Sticker Style panel appears so you can choose one and see it live.

It replays the drawing stroke by stroke, with the glow animation, and plays the music if one was added.

Yes. Tap share on the post. The app prepares a file (you will see "Preparing...") and shares it: an MP4 video if the post has music, otherwise an animated GIF that loops silently. It carries the KuhuChat footer.

Yes. Choose Forward to contact, Forward to Samaj or Forward to group. It is sent as a GIF or video message in chat.

You will see an error such as "Could not generate export". Try again; if it keeps failing, restart the app.

A small friendly gesture, like knocking at someone's door to say "I was here". You place it on another person's wall. The owner is notified "Knocked on your wall".

5 days. Then it disappears from the wall.

Open My Doors from your wall. It lists every wall where you have a door, how long ago, and how many days are left. When none are left it says "Expired". If you have not placed any, it says "When you place a door on someone's wall, it will appear here."

Yes. Open My Doors, tap the door and confirm "Remove your door from this wall? It will no longer appear there." You can also select several and remove them together.

When someone posts on your wall (with a note if it needs your approval); when a post on a wall you follow goes live ("Shared a new post on the Wall", or a photo, video or GIF); and when someone shares a spray drawing.

New posts on your wall and new activity on the walls of your contacts and Samaj members. Opening a person's wall clears their share of the count. Posts waiting for your approval stay counted until you approve or remove them.

Posts others write on your wall start as pending and count for you until you decide.

No. Approved posts are deleted automatically after 15 days, along with their photo, video, voice note or music. Doors last 5 days.

Save the photo or video to your phone, or tag the post to your Diary before it expires.

Once a day at night, so a post may stay a few hours past its date.

Your phone contacts. Those who are on KuhuChat can be chatted with; contacts who have not joined show an invite option. You land on this tab after login.

Alphabetically, across scripts, so names in Hindi, Gujarati and English are mixed in one list.

Open a private chat; view their wall; view their memory pins; see their voice status; see if they have a business and open it; analyse your chat with them in Mitra (see 17.1); or block them.

That person has not joined KuhuChat. Tap Invite and choose "Invite via WhatsApp (Free)", or SMS (carrier rates may apply).

That person's details are private to you, so some options on their card are not available.

Open the contact and choose Block. The app warns: "[Name] won't be able to message you, see your wall, tree, business, or status, and you won't see theirs either." To undo, choose Unblock: "You will be able to see and interact with [Name] again."

With your permission, it reads your phone contacts and converts each 10-digit number into a one-way scrambled code (a hash). Only the codes are compared. Your raw contact list is not uploaded as plain numbers.

Automatically in the background, at most about once every 12 hours. Use Refresh on the Contacts tab to update sooner.

Check that you saved their number in your phone, that you gave contacts permission to KuhuChat ("Make sure contacts permission is granted"), and tap Refresh. They must be registered with that same number.

The sync is skipped and you can still chat with people you already had chats with. Allow contacts in your phone settings to see the rest.

No. A browser cannot read your phone's contacts. It shows the contacts your phone has already synced.

Tap the search icon on the Contacts tab and type. You can type in any script, and the search also finds names written in another script.

Samaj search (see 4.4) finds members of your Samaj. The Contacts search finds your phone contacts.

Tap a contact who is on KuhuChat. The private chat opens. Type and send.

Yes. Chats and contacts work without a Samaj.

On wide screens, the chat list is on the left and the open chat on the right.

Sent: the message reached KuhuChat. Delivered: it reached the other person's phone. Read: they opened it. A clock or "queued" mark means it is waiting for internet.

Swipe the message to the right. The original appears above your reply.

Press and hold it for options such as Reply, Copy, Forward, Share and Delete. Swiping a message left tags it into a Diary thread.

Choose Forward, then pick the people or groups. Photos, videos, voice messages, documents, locations and albums can be forwarded as well.

Tap the attach button in the message bar and choose Gallery. You can select several; they are sent as an album. Add a caption if you want.

Choose Documents (or Files) in the attach menu and pick the file. PDFs show a small preview with the page count.

Yes, to save data and speed up sending. GIF files are sent as they are.

Tap it to open full screen. Use the save or share option to keep it.

Choose Camera in the attach menu. Switch between Photo and Video. In Photo mode tap the shutter; in Video mode tap to start and stop recording.

Flash (off, auto, torch), switch between front and back camera, quality choice and a self-timer for photos.

Use the microphone button in the message bar. The first time, allow microphone permission. Record, then send. You can delete a recording before sending.

Tap play on the voice message. You can move through it by dragging the bar.

Open the attach menu and choose GIF. Search for one and tap it to send.

Check your internet. Some phones pause animations in battery-saver mode.

When you send or receive a web link, the chat shows a small preview card with its title and image where the website provides them. Tap the card to open the link.

Tap the search icon at the top of the chat and type. Matching messages are highlighted.

Press and hold one message, then tap others. The top bar shows options such as delete and forward for all selected.

Swipe right on a message to reply. Swipe left to tag it into a Diary thread (see 18.3).

Press and hold it and choose Delete. You can delete it for yourself only, or for everyone in the chat.

It removes the message from the other person's chat and also removes its photo, video, voice or document from KuhuChat's storage. If the receiver had not read it, their unread count goes down.

From the Contacts tab, open the contact's menu and choose Clear chat. You can remove it from your list only, or delete it for both: "This will permanently delete your chat with [Name] for both of you. [Name] will not be removed as a contact. This cannot be undone."

After you delete a chat for everyone, they see "Chat deleted for everyone".

Text and media wait in a queue on your phone. The message shows in the chat as queued. When the connection returns, KuhuChat sends it automatically.

Queued media is saved on your phone, so it is sent when the app next has internet. Keep the app installed and signed in.

Message text, captions and media links are encrypted with AES-256 before they are stored, using a separate key for each chat. Messages are also protected in transit.

No. The keys are managed by KuhuChat's service so that your chats can be restored on a new phone and across devices. Please do not share sensitive details such as bank PINs or passwords in any chat.

In the app, only you and the people in the chat see your messages. Messages are stored encrypted, and your contacts are matched using scrambled numbers, not plain ones.

New messages in private chats, groups and Samaj chats. Tapping a notification opens that chat (see 2.4).

Use the menu, then Notification Sound (see 2.6).

See 2.4. Check phone notification settings, internet and battery saver.

It sends one map pin of exactly where you are right now into the chat. The pin stays where it was sent. It does not follow you if you move. If you want the other person to see you move, use Live Location (11.2).

Open any chat, tap the attach button next to the message box, and tap Location. A sheet called Share Location opens.

Private chats, group chats and your Samaj chat all use the same Share Location sheet.

1. Open the chat and tap the attach button.
2. Tap Location.
3. Wait for the small map to show your position.
4. Tap Send Current Location ("Share where you are right now").

The pin appears in the chat as a map picture with the word Location.

A preview of where KuhuChat thinks you are. It is a picture only. You cannot move the pin or search on it. If the position looks wrong, close the sheet and open it again.

Tap Retry. If it keeps failing:

• Turn on your phone's location (GPS) from the quick settings.
• Allow KuhuChat to use your location when asked. If you refused earlier, open your phone's Settings, then Apps, then KuhuChat, then Permissions, and allow Location.
• Move to a place with a better signal, for example near a window or outdoors.

KuhuChat asks your phone for high accuracy and waits up to about 10 seconds. If your phone cannot get a fresh reading in that time, it uses the last position it knew. Indoors the pin can be off by several metres. Wait a few seconds before sending if accuracy matters.

No. A shared current location stays in the chat like any other message. Delete it like a normal message if you no longer want it there.

It opens in their phone's maps app, so they can see the place and start directions.

Not from the Share Location sheet. Send it in one chat, then forward the message if you need it elsewhere.

Yes. They see your name with "📍 Location". In the chat list, the last message shows Location.

No. KuhuChat does not charge for it. The map picture needs an internet connection to load.

It shares your position as you move, so the people in a chat can follow you on a map. It is useful when you are travelling, meeting someone, or want family to know you have arrived safely.

You choose one of three options: 15 minutes, 1 hour or 8 hours. Sharing stops by itself when the time runs out. You cannot choose "until I turn it off".

1. Open the chat, tap the attach button and tap Location.
2. Under LIVE LOCATION, tap Share for 15 minutes, Share for 1 hour or Share for 8 hours.
3. A confirmation appears with the duration. Tap Share Location to start, or Cancel.
4. Allow location access if your phone asks. For live sharing, choose the option that allows location all the time, so it keeps working when KuhuChat is in the background.

A live-location card then appears in the chat.

Sharing your live position is sensitive, so KuhuChat asks each time, even if your phone has already given permission.

About every 30 seconds.

A map card in the chat with a red LIVE dot and a line such as "Sharing for 12 min" or "Sharing for 1h". Tapping the card opens the Live Location screen (see 11.4).

Yes. Everyone who can read that chat can see it. Choose carefully before sharing in a large group.

Yes. When the other person taps your live card, they can tap Share Location and share back for 15 minutes, 1 hour or 8 hours. The map then shows both of you. The map shows two people at a time. If more than two people share in the same group, you see the person whose card you opened and one other.

No. You can share live in one chat at a time. If you start a new live share, your earlier one ends.

Either:

• Tap Stop (red) on your own live card in the chat.
• Open the card and tap Stop next to your name in the list of people sharing.

The card changes to Live Ended and your phone stops sending your position.

No. Only you can stop your own sharing. Others can only close the map.

Sharing ends automatically. The card shows Live Ended, and the sharing notification on your phone disappears. Nothing more is sent.

Sharing stops. Your phone checks about every 30 seconds, so it can take up to half a minute to end.

Yes, the same as for any location: your name with "📍 Location". In the chat list the last message shows Live location.

The screen shows your latest position, not a trail of where you have been.

Your phone has not yet got a position. This is common indoors or just after turning GPS on. It continues by itself as soon as a position is found. If it never does, step outside or check that location is switched on.

Using GPS continuously uses extra battery, so choose the shortest duration you need. The data used is small.

Yes, as long as you gave permission to use location all the time. Your phone shows a "Sharing live location" notification while it runs. Swiping KuhuChat away from recent apps does not stop it. Use Stop to end sharing yourself, or wait for the time to run out.

Its title is Sharing live location. Underneath it shows "Sharing with" and the person's name (or "your contact"), or "Waiting for GPS" while a position is being found. It is there so you always know your location is being shared. It cannot be switched off while you are sharing.

Yes. On your first live share, your phone asks for location access. For sharing to keep going in the background, choose the option that allows location all the time. If you only allow while using the app, sharing may pause when you leave KuhuChat.

Common reasons:

• The time you picked ran out.
• Location or GPS was switched off.
• Your phone's battery saver or app-sleep setting stopped KuhuChat. Set KuhuChat to Unrestricted or Not optimised in battery settings.
• The message was deleted.
• You started a new live share in another chat, which ended this one.

No. Your position is read only while a live share is active. When it ends, the background service stops and the notification goes away.

The live card stays in the chat as Live Ended, and nothing further is sent. Delete the message to remove it from the chat.

The small map in the Share Location sheet and in chat cards is a map picture loaded from KuhuChat's own map service. It needs internet. If the picture cannot load, you see a grey box with a map icon. Tapping the card still opens the full location.

Tap a live card to open it. You get:

• A full interactive map. Move, zoom, rotate and tilt it.
• A map-type button at the top right that switches between road map and satellite view.
• Tap the map to make it full screen. Tap the small collapse button at the top left to go back.
• A list of the people sharing, showing each name with the time left ("Sharing for 20 min") or Live Ended.
• A Share Location button, shown if you are not already sharing, so you can share back (15 minutes, 1 hour or 8 hours).
• An Open in Maps button when the other person's position is known. It opens your phone's Google Maps app for turn-by-turn directions to them. It is free.

It tells you the card opens a bigger map with more options when tapped.

Their phone has not sent a new position. Possible reasons are no signal, GPS off, phone switched off, or their sharing has ended. Check whether the card says Live Ended. Updates arrive about every 30 seconds when their phone is working normally.

You may not have a maps app installed. You will see "Could not open Google Maps". Install or update Google Maps and try again.

Only the people in that chat. If you shared in a group or the Samaj chat, everyone in it can see. Check the chat name before you tap Share Location.

It is your choice every time, and you can stop it at any moment. Share live location only with people you trust, choose the shortest time you need, and stop sharing once you have arrived. Anyone in the chat can copy or screenshot a map pin you send.

A reminder is a notification that KuhuChat sends you at a time you choose. It can be linked to a message in a chat, to a Diary thread, or stand alone with no link.

1. Open the chat.
2. Press and hold the message to select it.
3. Tap the bell icon (Set reminder) in the bar at the top.
4. Fill in the reminder sheet (see below) and tap Save reminder.

The bell appears only when exactly one message is selected.

• Remind me to: a short title.
• Note (optional): extra words that will show in the notification.
• When: tap In 1 hour, This evening, 6 PM, Tomorrow, 9 AM, or Pick date & time to choose any date and clock time.
• Add voice note (optional): record your own voice message for the reminder (see 12.3).

Under the title the sheet shows a small preview of the message the reminder is about: a thumbnail for a photo, video or GIF, or an icon and short text for a voice message, document, location, contact or text.

Text, photos, videos, GIFs, voice messages, documents, locations, contacts and albums.

Up to 3 years from today. The time must be in the future. If you pick a time that has passed you see "Pick a time in the future". If you tap Save before choosing a time you see "Pick a date and time first".

It is set for 6 PM the next day.

Yes. The same sheet opens from a Diary thread. The reminder is shown as "On diary thread" with the thread name, and tapping it later opens that thread.

Yes. Open the Reminders screen (12.2) and tap +. You enter a title, optional note, a time and, if you like, a voice note.

Reminders that are not linked to a chat or Diary thread can be rescheduled. Open the Reminders screen, tap the reminder, choose a new time and tap Update reminder. Only the time changes. The title, note and voice note stay as they were. A reminder linked to a chat opens that chat when tapped, so to change its time, delete it and set a new one from the message.

Only you. They belong to your account and are not shared with the other person in the chat.

Tap the ⋮ menu on the Samaj, Contacts or Social tab and tap Reminders.

Two lists. Upcoming (with a count) holds reminders that have not fired yet, the soonest first. Past (with a count) holds reminders whose time has passed, the newest first. Past reminders appear struck through in grey. Each reminder shows its title, the chat or Diary thread it belongs to, and its date and time. Past times that were missed show in a different colour.

You have none saved. Select a message in a chat and tap the bell, or tap + on this screen to add a standalone reminder.

• A reminder on a chat message opens that chat.
• A reminder on a Diary thread opens the thread. If the thread has since been deleted, the sheet opens so you can change or remove the reminder.
• A standalone reminder opens the sheet so you can change its time.

Tap the bin icon on the reminder, or swipe it from right to left. KuhuChat asks "Delete reminder?" and says the reminder will be removed. Tap Delete to confirm.

No. Only the reminder is removed.

Yes. In the reminder sheet tap Add voice note. A recording bar appears with a timer. Tap stop when you are finished, listen to the preview, and send it to attach it to the reminder.

• "Recording too short": record a little longer.
• "Uploading voice note" with a percentage: wait for it to finish.
• "Could not upload voice note": check your internet and record again.
• "Finish or discard the voice note before saving": you tried to save while still recording. Finish, or delete the recording.
• "Wait for the voice note to finish uploading": try Save again in a moment.

In the Reminders screen, a reminder with a voice note shows a row "Voice note" with its length. Tap it to play and tap again to pause.

No. When you edit a reminder, only the time can be changed. To record a new voice note, delete the reminder and make a new one.

Tap ⋮, then Notification Sound, then the Reminder tab. Options are Cuckoo Clock, Koel (long) and Phone default. Tap the play button next to a sound to hear it, then choose it.

No. Reminders have their own sound setting, so changing one never changes the other. Reminder sounds are longer on purpose, so you notice them.

Your phone's default notification sound.

KuhuChat's server checks for due reminders every minute and sends you a notification. A reminder can therefore arrive up to about a minute after its set time. Your phone needs an internet connection to receive it.

The body shows your note if you wrote one. If not, it shows a short preview of the message. If that is empty, it says "Reminder about" followed by the chat name, and otherwise "Tap to view".

A reminder on a chat opens that chat. Any other reminder opens the Reminders screen. If the reminder has a voice note, it is available to play from the Reminders screen.

It moves to the Past list, struck through, so you can review it. KuhuChat removes it automatically a few minutes later. The server clears fired reminders every 5 minutes, so expect them to stay about 5 to 10 minutes. Delete it earlier yourself if you wish.

Check these:

• Notifications are allowed for KuhuChat in your phone settings.
• Your phone has internet.
• Battery saver is not restricting KuhuChat.
• You are signed in on this phone. A reminder is sent to the devices signed in to your account. If your account has no registered device when the reminder falls due, it is discarded.

Reminders are not repeating, so each one fires once.

Not at the moment. Each reminder fires once at the time you set.

The Social tab (also called Social Circle) is where all your groups live. It shows the groups you are a member of, any group invites waiting for you, and a button to start a new group.

A search icon (to search your groups), the Toolbox icon, and the ⋮ menu. The ⋮ menu on this tab includes New Group, along with Profile, App Theme, Notification Sound, Language, Blocked Users, Reminders and Logout.

No. Social is for groups you chat in. The Business tab is the Business Circle, a directory of businesses (Chapter 14).

No. Groups work with your contacts even before you join a Samaj. If you have joined, you can also pick people from your Samaj when you create a group.

Tap the Social tab at the bottom of the screen.

Pinned groups come first. Under them, the groups with the most recent message come first. Each group shows its picture, name, the last message and the time. A date such as "Yesterday" appears for older messages. A new group with no messages shows "No messages yet".

You see "No groups found. Tap + to start one!" Tap + to create your first group (13.3).

The app could not reach the server. Check your internet and open the tab again.

Press and hold the group and tap Pin group. Use Unpin group to undo it. Pinning is personal. Other members' lists are not changed.

• Delete for me: removes the group from your own list only.
• Select multiple: tick several groups, then remove them from your list in one step. You see "Remove N groups?" and "These groups will be removed from your list.", then Remove.
• Delete for everyone: shown to group admins only. It permanently deletes the group and all messages for all members.

Delete for me only tidies your own list. Delete for everyone removes the group and its messages for every member and cannot be undone. You are asked to confirm: "Delete group for everyone? This will permanently delete the group and all messages for all members. This cannot be undone."

At the top of the Social tab as an invite card with the group name and two buttons, Accept and Reject (see 13.7).

1. On the Social tab, tap + or tap ⋮ then New Group.
2. On the Create Group screen, choose people from the Contacts tab or from the My Samaj tab (it shows your village name).
3. Tap Next (it shows how many you selected).
4. Type a Group Name. Tap the round picture to add a group photo. You can crop it.
5. Tap CREATE.

The group opens with a "Group created" message.

People in your phone contacts who are on KuhuChat, and members of your Samaj. Contacts not yet on KuhuChat are greyed out with a lock icon and the note "Not on app yet", and cannot be selected. Invite them to KuhuChat first.

Yes. When you create a group, everyone you select becomes a member immediately, with no invite step. The invite and accept step applies only to people you add later (13.6 and 13.7).

Yes. CREATE does nothing until you type a name. You can rename the group later (13.4).

No. You can add or change it later from Group Info.

Up to 1024, including you. The Create Group screen shows how many slots are left. If you go over, you see "Groups are limited to 1024 members".

The creator and an admin. You can make other members admins later.

Untick them before you tap Next. After the group exists, an admin can remove members (13.5).

Open the group chat and tap the group name at the top.

• The group picture and name, with the number of members.
• The group description ("Add group description" if you can edit it, or "No group description").
• Mute Notifications.
• ADMIN SETTINGS (admins only).
• Add Members (admins only).
• MEMBERS LIST, with an ADMIN tag beside admins.
• Pending Members (admins only, when invites are waiting).
• Exit Group.
• Delete Group (admins only).

Tap the name, picture or description on Group Info. You see Rename Group with a box for the new name, and Group Description with a box for the text. Tap Save. You can do this only if you are an admin, or if the admins have left Lock Group Info switched off.

On Group Info, switch on Mute Notifications. The label changes to Muted. Switch it off and you see "You will be notified of new messages". Muting affects only you.

No. Messages still arrive in the group. You just don't get notifications for them.

On Group Info tap Exit Group, then Leave. You see "Leave group? You will no longer receive messages from this group." The group shows "A member left the group".

The group continues. If you were the creator, the next admin becomes the creator. If no admin remains, the first remaining member becomes an admin. If you were the last member, the group is deleted.

Only an admin can. On Group Info tap Delete Group. A warning explains that the group and all messages are permanently deleted for every member. To confirm, type the exact group name, then tap Delete Group. It cannot be undone.

The person who created the group, plus anyone an admin promotes. Admins have extra controls.

• Add members.
• Remove members.
• Make another member an admin, or dismiss an admin.
• Switch on Lock Chat and Lock Group Info.
• See and cancel pending invites.
• Delete other people's messages in the group.
• Delete the group for everyone.

Read messages, send messages (unless Lock Chat is on), delete their own messages, mute the group, and leave it.

When an admin switches it on, only admins can send messages. Everyone else can read but not post. It is useful for announcements. Switch it off to let everyone write again.

When it is on, only admins can change the group name, picture and description. When it is off, any member can.

As an admin, tap the member in the members list, then Make Group Admin. To take the role away, tap the member and choose Dismiss as Admin.

As an admin, tap the member and choose Remove from Group, then Remove. You see "Remove member? [Name] will be removed from this group and will no longer receive new messages." Afterwards the group shows "[Name] removed from the group".

No. Admin controls apply only to the group.

If a member has a business listed on KuhuChat, this opens their business profile.

Only admins. The Add Members button appears on Group Info for admins.

1. On Group Info tap Add Members.
2. Choose people from the Contacts tab or the Samaj tab.
3. To add a person who is not in your contacts, tap Add a new number and type their phone number.
4. Tap ADD.

Up to 5 new members each time. The screen shows "N of 5 selected" and how many slots remain in the group. If you try more, you see "Maximum 5 new members per add". Add more people with another Add Members.

They may already be members, or they may already have a pending invite. A person who has been invited and has not yet answered cannot be invited again.

Yes, 1024. Pending invites count towards that limit too.

No. They receive an invite and become members only when they accept (13.7).

You get a notification titled Group invite that says you have been invited to join the group and can accept or decline. Tapping it opens the Social tab, where an invite card is waiting at the top of your list.

On the invite card, tap Accept to join, or Reject to decline. After you accept, the group appears in your list like any other.

No. Declining simply removes your invite. The admin is not notified.

Check that notifications are allowed for KuhuChat. Even without the notification, open the Social tab. The invite card shows there as long as the invite is still pending.

Yes. Admins see Pending Members on Group Info and can remove an invite before it is answered.

Not through Add Members. People added later always get an invite they can decline. The exception is a group's creator choosing people at the moment the group is created, who become members straight away. If you do not want to stay in a group, tap Exit Group.

On the Social tab tap the search icon. Type part of the group name in "Search groups by name...". Matching groups appear as you type. Group member names are shown under each group.

You see "No groups found" or, after you type, "No groups matching" with your search words.

No. It searches only the groups you belong to.

Pehchan, which shows how you are connected to a phone number through contacts and Samaj. See 4.5.

A notification with the group name and the sender's name, for example "Family: Ravi". Under it is a short label for what was sent, such as Photo, Video, Voice message, Document or Location. Text messages show as "Message".

KuhuChat opens that group chat on the Social tab, even if the app was closed.

No. A muted group sends you no notifications.

The Social tab badge counts unread group chats. Each group in the list shows its own unread count. Opening a group clears its count.

These show as notes inside the group chat, such as "Group created" and "A member left the group". Invited people also get a Group invite notification.

Mute each group (13.4), or turn off notifications for KuhuChat in your phone's settings.

The Business tab (called Business Circle) is a directory of shops, manufacturers, wholesalers and service providers. The header reminds you that businesses are verified with 2+ govt. credentials.

The home screen shows 25 industry tiles. Tap an industry to see its business types (labels) with the number of businesses in each. Tap a type to see the list of businesses.

"V" marks a verified business: one whose owner has verified at least 2 government credentials, including PAN. Businesses without it show as Unverified.

These are shops listed from public map data that nobody has claimed yet. They always appear in their own section below the verified businesses. See 14.7 and 14.14 to claim one.

Businesses are ranked by how well they match your search or type, then verified status, then a live offer, then rating, then distance.

The straight-line distance from your phone's GPS. If your phone has no position, the distance is measured from the area you picked, and the text says so.

It shows the place you are searching around. By default it is your phone's own place, such as your town. Pick another area in the filter to change it. It resets to your phone's place each time you open the screen.

Check that location is on and permission is allowed. If you see "No verified businesses yet", no business in that area has completed verification. Try a wider area, or search by name.

A business appears in the verified list only when it has at least 2 verified credentials and its PAN is verified (14.14). The Business Hub shows a checklist of what is still missing.

Yes. Followers and Following lists are in 14.10.

It is the home page of one business. It has a cover photo, a Follow button for visitors, and three tabs: Products & Services, Filings and About.

Tap the business bag icon on the Samaj tab. It opens your businesses with full editing. When you open someone else's business, it is read-only.

It turns green only when you have at least one product or service with a photo and a price saved. A name or logo alone is not enough.

It lists what your business still needs to appear in Business Circle: business name, business type, at least one product or service with a photo and price, a full address or saved location, and a verified PAN.

Up to 3 per person. For another shop, godown or branch, create a separate business.

With no business you see "No business profile yet". With one business it opens directly. With two or more, you pick which one to view.

Only its owner. Visitors can view, follow and rate it.

Yes, from your business list. Deleting removes its products, services and filings, so confirm before you do it.

Open the business bag icon, tap add, enter the business name, then choose a business type, add a location, add products or services, and verify your credentials. The checklist guides you step by step.

Name, logo and cover photo, business type, About text, contact numbers, address and location, products and services, offers, FAQs and filings.

Your login number is the primary contact and needs no OTP. You can add a WhatsApp number or extra numbers, and each needs an OTP (14.15).

Yes. You will see "Address is required. Please enter your business address."

Yes. Edit any time from your own Business Hub.

Pick one main label from the list (for example "Tile store" or "Tile manufacturer"). Search by typing a word.

Yes, up to 3 extra labels besides the main one. Remove one first if you reach the limit.

Yes. The kind is worked out from your main label. People see shops, clinics, hotels, malls and restaurants grouped as "Local business".

Search with a simpler or related word. Names and spellings are matched loosely.

Open Business Locations, search for your place or drop a pin on the map, and add the full address.

No. A business has one place. For another shop, godown, warehouse or branch, create a separate business, up to 3 in all.

Shop, Godown, Showroom, Warehouse, Office and Other.

Distance, Autofind and nearby alerts all use your saved position. Without a pin, customers cannot find you by distance.

Open the Products & Services tab and add an item with a name, photos and a price. Group items under a heading so customers can browse.

At least one product or service must have both for your business to count as complete and to turn the bag icon green.

Yes. Product and service names appear in search suggestions marked "V" for verified shops. Related words are matched, so "pant" can find trousers.

Yes, you can keep a price list for your business.

Type in the search box. Suggestions appear as you type: business types, shop names and item names.

State, District and Taluka. A business matches if its location is in that area. You can also search near a place you pick by place search, map pin or GPS. Shops within about 20 km of that point match.

It looks for unverified shops in the area you picked, anywhere in India.

Your recent searches, so you can repeat them quickly. Tap Reset to clear the filters.

If an Unverified shop is yours, tap Is this your business? then Claim. A copy is created in your account with 0 verified credentials. It stays out of the verified list until you verify it (14.14).

No. Claiming only gives you ownership. Verification needs credentials and PAN.

A list of every nearby business that matches the categories you choose, right now. You do not have to follow them.

Open Autofind preferences and choose categories. The picker shows only categories that have shops within your radius, with a shop count and a filter box.

An empty choice means show everything.

It has no shops nearby right now. It stays saved and comes back when shops appear, for example when you travel.

No. It uses your phone's GPS and shows saved shop data.

Verified shops always appear first. Unverified shops that can be claimed appear below them.

Short posts from a business, either an Offer with start and end dates or a New Arrival with an arriving or arrived date.

Only the business owner, from the megaphone icon on the Business Hub.

2 at a time, offers and new arrivals together. Posting a third removes the oldest.

Yes. An offer disappears from every screen when it ends. New arrivals are also removed after a while.

A title is required. For an offer, set both a start and end date. For a new arrival, set the arrival date. A description is optional.

Anyone viewing the business. Followers see a NEW dot on items they have not seen yet.

Open the business and tap Follow. It becomes Following.

No.

Offer and new-arrival updates, and a nearby alert when you arrive close to the shop (14.11).

Open Following. The list shows the businesses you follow with their live offers.

Business owners can open My Followers to see who follows their business.

Tap Following on the business page.

Check your internet and try again.

When you arrive within about 200 metres of a shop you follow, KuhuChat sends an alert. Your phone detects this itself.

Shops you follow, unverified shops you added with the bell button, and shops picked automatically from your Autofind categories.

20 in all. Followed shops get slots first, then shops you added, then automatic picks.

No. Each shop has a 12-hour cooldown.

Location and notifications. After you follow a business, KuhuChat asks for location while using the app. On newer Android you then open Settings and choose Allow all the time, so alerts work when the app is closed.

Open the Alerts tab and tap Fix location permission. Make sure location is set to Allow all the time and battery saver is not restricting KuhuChat.

It lists every shop that will alert you and why.

Alerts currently run on Android phones.

Your alerts are cleared, so the next person on the phone does not get yours.

Open the business and tap Rate this business. Choose 1 to 5 stars.

Yes. Your rating shows as Your rating, and a new one replaces the old. You cannot rate twice.

No. You will see "You cannot rate your own business."

The average of all ratings, shown with the number of reviews. A claimed shop starts with its public map rating.

The owner writes questions and answers about the business once. Visitors tap a question to read the answer. There is no chatbot, so answers are always what the owner wrote.

In the About tab tap Add FAQ and write both a question and an answer. Both are required.

Yes. The owner can edit and delete, and control the order.

Visitors see the section only when the owner has added at least one.

The Filings tab, where you verify your business credentials with government records. Verified credentials build trust and put you in the Business Circle.

GSTIN, PAN, TAN, Professional Tax, CIN, DIN, LLPIN, IEC, AD Code, FSSAI, Biz Hypothecation, Pollution (Industry), UDYAM, Factory License, Gumastadhara (Shop licence) and Drug License.

At least 2, and PAN must be one of them.

PAN must be verified first. Every other credential unlocks after that.

Tap the credential, enter the number, accept the Compliance Notice and tap I Agree & Verify. The record is checked against government data.

Fees are non-refundable per verification attempt, you are responsible for the accuracy of the details, and fraudulent entries are legal offences.

Yes. Verifying UDYAM also verifies your PAN and GST from the same response, with no extra charge.

Re-check the number and retry. Each attempt may be charged, so confirm the number first.

Visitors see which credentials are verified on your Filings tab.

It proves the WhatsApp or extra number really belongs to you.

No. The sheet shows it as fixed and says no OTP is needed.

Enter the number, tap Send OTP & Verify WhatsApp, then type the 6-digit code.

Yes. Tap Save address only (skip WhatsApp).

You will see that WhatsApp is already verified.

Yes, each with its own OTP.

No. Verifying a business number never changes your KuhuChat login.

Mitra is the round star button on the Samaj, Contacts and Social tabs. It opens one screen with two features: Relations, which analyses your chat with one person, and Diary, where you collect threads and ask the AI about them.

No. Mitra does not chat about any topic. Its AI works only on your own chat with a person you pick (Chapter 17) and on the things you have saved in your Diary (Chapters 18 and 19).

No. Mitra is an AI that uses Google's Gemini. Treat its answers as a summary of your own material, not as advice from a person.

Tap the star button at the bottom right of the Samaj, Contacts or Social tab. It hides while a chat is open.

Two tabs at the top.

• DIARY: your Thread Diary, with AI questions and photo and video analysis (see 15.2).
• RELATIONS: pick a person and analyse your chat with them.

It opens Relation Analysis for that person directly (see 17.1). It is dimmed when the person is not on KuhuChat yet.

No. Voice Status is a separate feature with its own megaphone icon (Chapter 16).

No. The AI runs on KuhuChat's servers, so you need internet.

The app shows no separate charge for Mitra. Questions and analyses have daily limits (see 18.4 and 19.7).

• Ask a question about one thread.
• Analyse selected photos and videos and keep the result under Past analyses.

Chapter 18 explains the Diary and Chapter 19 explains photo and video analysis.

Open a thread and tap the Mitra icon. A menu offers Select items to analyze, Past analyses and Ask a question.

Choose Select items to analyze, tick up to 15 photos or one video, and start. The AI looks at them and writes a summary. It is saved under Past analyses so you can read it again or ask about it.

Your photo is made smaller and sent to Google's Gemini AI for analysis. For one video up to 2 minutes, the whole video with its sound is sent. If the file is too big, a few pictures from it are sent instead (see 19.5). Only photos and videos you select are analysed.

It is designed to answer only from your tagged Diary items and your past analyses, and it shows the sources it used as small thumbnails. If nothing relevant is found, it says so instead of guessing.

You can ask 50 questions per thread in any 24 hours. When you reach the limit, try again later.

Yes. The Ask a question box has a mic for dictation.

Yes. Open it from Past analyses and choose Ask about this analysis. The next question is answered from that analysis only.

Your own analyses are saved in your Diary. Threads you share show their items to the people you share them with. See Chapter 18.

Relation Analysis replies in 11 languages: Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi and Urdu. Odia and Assamese are not available for Mitra yet, although the rest of the app supports them.

Open Mitra, go to the RELATIONS tab and tap the language chip. Pick your language. It is saved to your account.

Mitra guesses from your state. If it cannot, it uses Hindi.

No. Mitra has its own language setting, separate from the app language (see 2.1).

Yes. The Relation Analysis summary is created again in the new language.

Yes. Replies are read aloud in your Mitra language and also shown as text.

Yes. Tap the speaker button to mute or unmute. Text replies still appear.

Yes. Tap the mic, speak, and tap again to stop. If the microphone is not available, allow microphone permission for KuhuChat in your phone settings.

Tap the voice button to open voice settings.

• Voice: male or female.
• Speed: 0.5x to 2.0x.
• Pitch: -20 to +20.

Speed and pitch are saved on your phone. They do not move to a new phone.

Check your volume and internet, and check that Mitra is not muted.

Relation Analysis works on one person's chat at a time. Tap the member button at the top, pick someone and tap Analyze first.

There are no readable text messages between you and that person yet. Chat first, then try again.

Check your internet and try again. An analysis can take up to a minute.

See 17.4 for what is read and sent in Relation Analysis, and Chapter 18 for the Diary.

Voice Status is a short voice note you leave for your people. When someone opens your status, your note plays first, like a status audio. In the app it appears as My Status and Record a Status Note. It is a separate feature from Mitra.

No. Voice Status uses the megaphone icon. Mitra is the star button for Relation Analysis and Diary (Chapter 15).

A status is your voice note for everyone in a list. A voice message is a note you leave for one specific person, and it goes into that person's inbox (16.4).

Tap the megaphone icon in the top bar of the Samaj tab (for your Samaj) or the Contacts tab (for your contacts).

Open your status screen and tap the large red mic to start. Tap it again to stop. The audio uploads and you see "Status updated". If you see "Upload failed", try again.

Allow microphone permission for KuhuChat in your phone settings, then try again.

Your status card shows its length and how long ago you recorded it. Tap play.

Record a new one. It replaces the old one in that same list.

Tap the bin icon on the card and confirm. It is removed for everyone.

The app shows the length as minutes and seconds. I found no fixed limit, so keep it short.

No. It must upload to be heard.

You can say different things to different people. The Community status is for your Samaj. The Contacts status is for your contacts.

No. Each list keeps its own status.

The one on the Samaj tab for the Community status. The one on the Contacts tab for the Contacts status.

No.

You can use the Contacts status. The Community status needs a Samaj.

Tap the megaphone icon on their tile. Their status plays automatically when the screen opens, and you can replay it with the play button.

They have a status you have not heard yet.

No. The icon is dimmed and tells you they are not on the app yet.

No. You will see a message that the person is blocked.

No. You see only the voice messages people leave for you (16.4).

Delete it (16.1). It also disappears by itself (16.7).

Open their status screen. Use the mic in the bar at the bottom, speak, then stop and send. The message goes to their inbox for that list (Samaj or Contacts).

Yes. Your own sent messages appear in "messages I sent" on that person's screen.

Yes. Recording again replaces your earlier message to that person.

Yes. Both the person who sent it and the inbox owner can delete it. Deleting is permanent.

On your own status screen, below your recording card.

Only you. A visitor sees only the messages they sent.

Yes. Each list has its own inbox and its own badge.

Unheard messages are shown first. When you play one, it is marked as heard and moves down.

On the Samaj or Contacts tab, counting unheard voice messages left for you in that list.

Listen to the message. For another person's status, listen to that status.

The megaphone (speaker-style) icon. It sits in the top bar of the Samaj and Contacts tabs for your own status, and on each tile for that person's status.

A person posted a new status or left you a message. The tile keeps its place once you have heard it.

You listened, the person deleted it, or it expired (16.7).

No. It is deleted automatically about 12 hours after you record it. The check runs every hour, so it can stay a little longer.

They are deleted after 2 days.

Yes, the audio file is deleted too.

No. Record a new one.

Relation Analysis is one of the two features inside Mitra (the star button). Mitra reads the text chat between you and one person and shows how much you talk, who starts conversations and a short written summary. The other feature is the Diary (Chapter 18).

In Contacts, tap the Mitra icon on a person's tile. The analysis opens and starts for that person.

Tap the Mitra button, open the RELATIONS tab, tap the member button at the top, pick a person (search by name) and tap Analyze.

Members of your own Samaj, including villages merged into it.

Your private chat with that person, and your chat with them in the Samaj chat if one exists, merged.

No. Text messages only.

Up to the earliest 500 messages of each chat. For the written summary, if there are more than 300 messages, it uses the first 50 and the latest 250.

Mitra says it could not find chat data between you two. Nothing is made up.

Nothing is analysed.

Your Mitra language (15.3).

Total messages and how many each of you sent, with the percentage, total words and average words per message, first and last message dates, days between them, the number of days you talked, and how many days each of you sent the first message.

The app, directly from your messages. The AI never guesses them.

On each day with messages, the person who sent the first message counts as having started that day.

The number of different calendar days with at least one message.

Yes. They update when you run a new analysis after more chat.

A short plain-language description of the conversation, written by an AI, using only what is in the chat.

No. It is designed to be blunt. If the chat is mostly greetings, emoji or short replies, it says so.

No. It describes patterns in the chat. It does not judge, diagnose or give relationship advice.

Yes. After an analysis, type or speak a question about that chat. Answers use only the chat and the analysis, and Mitra says so when the chat does not contain the answer.

No. If no person is selected, Mitra asks you to select a member first. Questions are answered only about the selected person's chat.

If nothing has changed, the saved result is shown. New messages or a language change run a fresh analysis.

Check your internet and try again. It can take up to a minute. If the AI fails, Mitra shows a message and does not invent a result.

I found no notification sent to them.

Only when you ask for an analysis, and only the chat with the person you choose. Chats are stored locked and are unlocked on your phone for this.

To write the summary and answer questions, the chat text is sent to KuhuChat's server and its AI provider. Do not analyse chats that contain passwords, banking details or other secrets.

Only you. It is saved under your own account and the other person cannot see it.

No. Diagnostics record counts and error codes only.

It never makes up numbers, invents a story or shows a fake score when the AI fails.

It is a place to keep things together. You make a thread with a name, such as "Pep Food Industry" or "House repair", and save photos, videos, voice notes, documents, messages and notes into it. A thread stays until you delete it.

Tap the Mitra star button and open the DIARY tab.

Your list of threads, with the newest activity on top. Each row shows the thread name and how many items it holds. A search bar at the top finds threads by name.

Tap + on the Diary home, type a name (for example, "Pep Food Industry") and tap Create. The thread opens straight away. You can also create one while saving something into the Diary (see 18.3).

"No threads yet, tag something with 'd' or tap + to start one." Saving anything with the Diary button, or tapping +, starts your first thread.

Yes. Typing "paresh" in English letters also finds a thread named in Gujarati or Hindi, and the other way round. See 23.1.

Items shown as chat-style bubbles in time order, with date headings and a time on each. A bar at the bottom lets you add more.

Yes. Tap a photo or video to open the full-screen viewer, which supports pinch-zoom. Tap a document to download it and open it in an app on your phone. A location item shows a small map, and tapping it opens Google Maps.

Yes. You can search item captions in a thread, also across scripts.

Yes. Each item keeps the date and time it happened, the time you saved it, and where it was saved from, such as "Chat with Ramesh", "Rajesh's Wall" or "Community Radar". Items that carry a location keep it.

Yes. A thread is visible only to you.

Open the thread and use the bar at the bottom, the same way as a chat.

• Type a note and tap send.
• Tap the attachment button for Gallery, Camera, Document, Audio, GIF, Location or Contact.
• Tap the mic to record a voice note.

Tap the mic in the bottom bar and speak. You can listen to it again before sending, then send it. It is added to the thread as a voice note.

Yes. Choose Gallery for existing ones, or Camera to take a new one.

Yes. Choose Location. It saves your current position once. There is no live tracking in the Diary.

Items keep a caption, which is a short note about the item, such as "machine torn down". Captions are searchable.

Only the thread owner can delete items. Long-press an item to select it, tap more items to add them, then tap Delete. If someone else tries, they see "Only the thread owner can delete items."

Only the Diary's copy goes away. The original in the chat, gallery, radar or wall stays. The file is removed from storage only when nothing else still uses it.

Use the Diary (tag) action. You choose a thread, or start a new one on the spot, and the item is saved with a note of where it came from.

• Swipe a message to the left.
• Or long-press messages to select one or more, then tap the Diary button in the top bar.

Swipe a gallery post to the left. To save several, select them and use the Diary button.

Swipe a pin to the left, or tap the Diary button in the full-screen viewer. To save several, select them in the pin list and tap the Diary button.

Swipe a wall post to the left.

Text messages, photos, videos, voice notes, documents and locations. A location from a chat appears in the Diary as a map.

Wall doors, because there is nothing meaningful to store. You cannot save from places that have no Diary button.

All your threads straight away. Type to narrow the list, or create a new thread right there.

Yes. Saving something to the Diary is instant and costs nothing. The AI runs only when you ask a question or start an analysis (see 18.4).

Yes. Saving makes a Diary copy of the reference. The chat message, gallery post, pin or wall post remains as it was.

Open the thread, tap the Mitra icon and choose Ask a question. Type your question, or tap the mic to dictate, and send.

Anything about what is saved in that thread, for example "When was the machine repaired?" or "What did Ramesh say about the price?".

It answers only from the items and past analyses in your thread. Every answer shows the sources it used as small thumbnails, such as a photo, video, note or a past analysis. If nothing relevant is found, it says so.

50 questions per thread in any 24 hours. After that, try again later.

Use Select items to analyze to pick photos and videos. The AI studies them and writes a summary, which is saved in Past analyses. Chapter 19 explains this in detail.

Yes. Open it from Past analyses and choose Ask about this analysis. The next question is answered from that analysis only.

Questions and the items they need are sent to KuhuChat's server and Google's Gemini AI to produce an answer. Only your thread's items are used.

The app shows no charge for it. The daily limits above apply.

Yes. From the Diary home, long-press a thread to select it and tap the reminder button. You can also set one from inside a thread.

No. A reminder points at one thread, so the reminder button works when exactly one thread is selected.

You get a notification at the time you chose. It follows the normal reminder rules in Chapter 12.

Swipe a thread to the right, or long-press to select threads and tap Delete. You are asked "Delete thread?" before it goes.

The thread and every item in it, permanently. The originals in your chats, gallery, radar and wall are not removed.

Yes. Select them with long-press and tap Delete. If some of the selected threads are owned by you and some are shared with you, the owned ones are deleted and the shared ones are left.

If a thread was shared with you, you cannot delete it. Leaving removes your access and leaves the thread for its owner.

No. You will see "Only the thread owner can delete this thread."

If a thread had people it was shared with, each of them gets a notification, "Thread deleted", saying the thread was deleted by the owner and is no longer available.

No. Deleting is permanent.

It is a feature of the Thread Diary (Chapter 18). You pick photos, or one video, from a thread, and the AI writes a short account of what is actually in them: a summary, a timeline, the people, objects and places it can see, and anything it is unsure about. The result is saved in the thread so you can read it again or ask about it.

Yes. Some screens in the app still call an analysis a "cook", for example the Past cooks list and the Delete this cook? message. Everything in this chapter is about that same feature.

No. The result is text, plus a row of small pictures from what you picked. It does not create a new video.

Open a Diary thread and tap the Mitra icon (the star). Choose Select items to analyze. The thread's items become tickable. Tick what you want and tap the sparkle icon in the top bar ("Cook selected"). A window titled Analyze this thread opens.

Yes. It sits under the Mitra icon inside a Diary thread, together with Past analyses and Ask a question (Chapter 15). It does not read your chats. That is Relation Analysis (Chapter 17).

No. The analysis runs on KuhuChat's servers, so you need a connection.

No. Saving things to a thread is free and instant (18.3). The AI runs only when you start an analysis or ask a question.

Photos, or exactly one video. You cannot mix photos and a video in the same analysis, and you cannot analyse two videos together.

Up to 15. On the thread screen you can tick up to 5 items. If you tick more you see "Select up to 5 items to cook." Once the Analyze this thread window is open, you can tap more photos there, up to 15.

The video becomes your only selection and everything else is un-ticked. While a video is selected, photos cannot be added. Un-tick the video first to go back to photos.

No. Only photos and videos are analysed. Text notes appear in the picker as grey tiles, but if you tick one the analysis stops with "Only images or a single video can be selected for analysis."

The video is longer than 2 minutes, or the app does not know its length, so a full analysis may not be possible (19.5).

The thread has nothing in it yet. Save some photos or videos into the thread first (18.3).

No. An analysis covers one thread at a time.

No. Select again next time.

An optional note to the AI, for example "Count how many people are in the photos" or "What is written on the board?". It is at the bottom of the window.

Up to 300 characters. Anything longer is cut off.

It follows your note only as far as the pictures and the video actually show. It does not invent things to satisfy a request, and it may say in "Worth noting" that the evidence does not support what you asked for.

No. Leave it empty for a general analysis.

1. Open the Diary thread and tap the Mitra icon.
2. Tap Select items to analyze.
3. Tick the photos, up to 5, and tap the sparkle icon.
4. In the Analyze this thread window, tap more photos if you want, up to 15.
5. Add a message if you like, then tap Analyze (the button shows the number of items).

The window shows "Looking through your photos and videos…" and then "Analyzing…".

Each photo is made much smaller on your phone and sent, through KuhuChat's server, to Google's Gemini AI. The AI then looks at the pictures directly and describes what it sees.

It describes what it can see, including how many people appear and what is clearly written in the picture. It does not guess names, relationships or the occasion.

Usually a few seconds to a minute. Keep the window open until it finishes.

Wait until the photo shows properly in the thread. A photo without a loaded picture cannot be analysed.

Open the Diary thread, tap the Mitra icon, choose Select items to analyze, tick one video and tap the sparkle icon. In the window tap Analyze video (full + audio). The window shows "Analyzing full video and audio…".

Up to 2 minutes. If the video is longer you see a message such as "This video is 2:30 — full analysis supports up to 2:00." Add a shorter clip to the thread and analyse that instead.

Yes. In a full video analysis the whole video file is sent, with its audio. What it hears is shown under "From voice notes" in the result details.

A very large video file (about 19 MB or more) cannot be sent whole. The app then switches by itself to a quicker method: it takes up to 15 pictures from the video and analyses those. This quicker method does not listen to the sound. It uses only one analysis from your daily limit.

It goes through the scene area by area, then checks again for people who are easy to miss, such as a child on someone's lap, someone asleep or leaning, someone partly hidden, or someone who appears only briefly. Counting can still be wrong, so the result carries a confidence label (19.6).

Only one video per analysis. Run a separate analysis for each video.

No. A video uses the whole analysis on its own.

A short summary, a row of small pictures (up to 8) from what you picked, and a Show details button. For a video you also see a line such as "Analyzed the full 1:20 video, including audio." and a confidence label.

Sections appear only when they have something to say:

• Timeline: what happened, in order.
• People: who or how many can be seen, without made-up names.
• Objects and Locations: things and places that are actually seen or stated.
• From voice notes: for a video, what was heard in its sound.
• From documents: text that was clearly readable.
• Worth noting: things the AI is not sure about.

It appears on video analyses. High confidence means the details are clear. Medium confidence means some details may be uncertain. Low confidence means please double-check the details below.

Most of the pictures gave the AI very little to work with, for example dark, blurry or empty photos with no caption. The summary will say there is not enough detail rather than make something up. Add captions or pick clearer photos and try again.

Yes. It can miss people or misread a scene. Treat the result as a helpful summary of your own pictures, not as proof, and look at the originals when something matters.

It is designed to describe only what the evidence shows. A thread might be a repair, an errand or a document trail as easily as a celebration, so it does not assume a happy story.

Yes. Tap Share. Your phone's share sheet opens with the summary text, and for a video the line about what was analysed. Pictures are not included.

It takes you back to the picker with nothing selected, so you can choose again and add a different message. It does not run again by itself, and a new run uses another analysis from your daily limit.

Yes. Open the analysis from Past analyses and tap Ask about this analysis (see 18.4).

Free accounts get 10 analyses in any rolling 24 hours, counted across all your threads together. Premium accounts have a higher limit.

A message: "You've used your analyses for today. Try again tomorrow, or upgrade for more."

Each analysis frees up 24 hours after you ran it. It is not a reset at midnight.

It may, because the limit is counted when the analysis starts. A video that is too long is refused before anything is counted.

No. It uses one.

No. Asking questions has its own limit of 50 questions per thread in 24 hours (18.4).

The app shows no charge for analyses.

In the thread, tap the Mitra icon and choose Past analyses. The screen is titled Past cooks. It shows the thread's 20 most recent analyses, newest first.

A short summary, up to 3 small pictures, and how many of the items had enough detail (for example "3/5 items").

Type in the Search past cooks… box at the top.

Tap its row. The saved result opens with the same Show details button.

Open it and tap Ask about this analysis. Your next question is answered from that analysis only.

Tap the bin icon on its row and confirm "Delete this cook?". It says "This removes it and its analysis permanently. This cannot be undone." Your original photos and videos stay in the thread.

You have not run an analysis on this thread yet.

They are saved inside the thread, so they follow the thread's privacy (see 18.1).

Only the photos or the video you select, and your optional message. Photos are shrunk first. For one video the whole file is sent, with its sound, unless it is too big, in which case up to 15 pictures from it are sent.

Google's Gemini, called by KuhuChat's server. The AI is not given your chats or other threads.

The written result, and the small pictures that were analysed, so that you can ask follow-up questions about that analysis later. Deleting the analysis removes both.

Avoid it. Anything you select leaves your phone for the AI service, so do not analyse pictures of passwords, bank details or ID papers.

Check your internet and tap Try again. Large videos can take a minute or more.

Nothing is selected yet. Tap at least one photo, or one video.

An item was deleted after you selected it. Close the window and select again.

The picture could not load. Check your internet and reopen the window.

That is the limit on the thread screen. Open the Analyze this thread window and tap more photos there, up to 15.

Run the analysis again with a message such as "Count everyone, including children on laps", or pick a clearer clip. Check the original video to be sure.

It is a preview of a road trip. You choose where you start and where you want to go, and KuhuChat builds a short animated drive along the road. A vehicle marker moves along the route on a map while photos of the places you would pass appear one after another: well-known sights and hotels. At the end you get a summary you can save, and a video you can share.

No. It does not give turn-by-turn directions and does not track you while you travel. It is for planning and sharing: seeing what lies on the way, finding a place to stay and showing the trip to family and friends.

• Tap the round Trip button on the Contacts tab or the Samaj tab. It hides while a chat is open.
• On Android you can also add a KuhuTrip icon to your phone's home screen (see Chapter 2, item 2.10).

Book hotel and Start trip. Book hotel is for searching and booking a hotel directly (see Chapter 21). Start trip is the trip preview described in this chapter. Switching tabs does not lose what you have already filled in.

KuhuChat does not charge for planning, watching or saving a trip. Booking a hotel is a separate step and is covered in Chapter 21.

Yes, to build a trip, and to see the maps and photos. A trip you have saved can be opened without building it again, but its photos and the map still load from the internet.

The route is always a driving route. The bus vehicles you can pick are only a different picture for the marker (see 20.3).

The distance and time in the header come from the road route and are an estimate. Real travel time depends on traffic, stops and weather. The animation itself is much shorter than the real journey (see 20.5).

1. Open the Trip Planner and stay on the Start trip tab.
2. Tap the From box, then place a pin on the map (see below).
3. Tap the To box and place a second pin.
4. Tap Start trip.

Both boxes say "Tap to select village or city" until you fill them.

A sheet opens with a map and the note "Tap anywhere on the map to drop a pin, or use your current location." Tap the map, and a pin appears. You can drag the pin to adjust it. The name of the place is looked up and shown at the bottom ("Looking up name…" first). Tap Use this pinned location to confirm.

Yes. Tap the round my-location button at the bottom right of the map sheet. The app asks for location permission the first time. It then drops a pin on your position and zooms in.

You will see one of these messages. Follow it, or simply tap the map instead.

• "Turn on device location to use this, or tap the map instead." Switch on location on your phone.
• "Location permission denied. Enable it in app settings, or tap the map instead." If you denied it permanently, tap Open settings in the message.
• "Could not get your current location. Try again, or tap the map instead." Move to a place with a better signal and try again.

The nearest village, town or city that the map finds. If no name can be found, the place is called "Custom location". The pin is still exact and the trip still works. A trip saved with that name gets its real name filled in automatically later, when you are online.

Yes. When you choose the second place, the first one is shown on the map sheet as a green marker labelled "Already selected" so you can place the second pin relative to it.

A green marker for the start and a red marker for the destination. The line between them is a straight preview line only. It is not the road. The real road route appears once the trip starts.

You can pin any point on the map. The preview works best between places that are connected by road.

You must choose both From and To first.

There is no swap button. Tap each box and choose again. During the preview you can also play the trip in reverse (see 20.5).

It is the small picture of a vehicle that moves along the route on the map. It is only a picture for fun and for your video. It does not change the route, the places shown or the timing.

1. On the Start trip tab, tap the Vehicle marker box. Or, while a trip is playing, tap the vehicle button in the controls.
2. In the sheet "Choose your ride", tap a vehicle.

The sheet closes and the marker changes straight away.

Cars: Sedan and Racer. Buses: City Bus, Coach, Luxury Coach and School Bus. The Sedan is the default.

Only while the app stays open. After you close the app, the marker goes back to the Sedan, so choose again if you like.

Yes. The video shows the vehicle you had selected when it was made.

Not at the moment. The trip is built with standard settings, so there is nothing to set apart from the vehicle picture.

• The road route from your start to your destination, drawn on the map.
• Up to 12 places worth a stop along the way, such as heritage sites and tourist places.
• Up to 8 hotels along the way, with a price range badge.
• Photos for every stop: up to 5 for a place and up to 10 for a hotel.
• A short line about each stop, and often an interesting fact.

In the order you would pass them on the road, from your start to your destination.

KuhuChat looks for well-known places near the route using map data and suggestions. Every stop has a real photo. A place without a usable photo is left out.

Short routes and quiet routes have fewer places. Hotels appear only where hotels are available along the way. If the trip finds nothing at all, it still plays with a start card and an arrival card.

Not at the moment. Trips show places to visit and hotels.

The places and photos for a route are reused for a while, so the same route shows similar stops. This also makes the trip build faster.

Usually a short wait while "Start trip" shows a spinner. A long route can take longer. Keep the app open.

• "Could not start the trip. Try again." Check your internet and tap Start trip again.
• "No content found for this route yet." The route has nothing to show right now. Try a nearby start or destination.

The trip still plays, but with a straight line between the two places, and the header shows no distance or travel time. Try again later, or choose slightly different places.

A "Preparing trip…" screen appears first. It warms up the map ("Warming up map…") and loads the photos ("Loading photos…") with a percentage, so the trip plays smoothly. The photo loading waits at most about 20 seconds. After that the trip starts anyway, and a photo that is not ready yet shows a small spinner until it arrives.

The map shows the route with your vehicle moving along it, and the photo of the current stop is shown together with it. When the vehicle reaches a stop, its photo and name appear. The map and photos always stay in step with each other.

The trip is built as a 10-minute preview. At normal speed (1x) it plays in about two and a half minutes. Slower speeds take longer and faster speeds are shorter.

• Rewind: plays the trip backwards. Tap again to go forward.
• Play or Pause.
• View: switches the map between Map, 3D and Satellite views. Each tap moves to the next one.
• Fullscreen image: opens the current photo full screen.
• Vehicle: change the vehicle marker.
• Speed: 0.25x, 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x or 3x.

Above these, the header shows your start and destination names, and the route distance and travel time.

It is the trip's progress bar. It is split into one segment per stop. Green segments are places to visit and light blue segments are hotels. A glowing dot shows where you are. Tap or drag anywhere on the bar to jump to that part of the trip.

While the trip plays, the top controls hide after about a second so the drive is not covered. Tap the photo or the map to bring them back. When the trip is paused, they stay visible.

• Tap the photo: pauses or resumes the trip and shows the controls.
• Double-tap the photo: opens it full screen.
• Tap the map: shows the controls.
• Double-tap the map: opens the map full screen.
• Tap a place marker on the map: opens a card with its name, its description and its coordinates.

Green markers are places to visit and blue markers are hotels. The vehicle marker turns to face the direction of the road.

Yes. Drag the progress bar back, or tap Rewind to play backwards.

Only the place name is shown at first, so the photo stays clear. Tap the name area to open more: a short description, and often an interesting fact about the place. Tap again to close it.

The photo shows the kind of place or the area, but the exact spot on the map is not known. The photo is a good guide, not an exact view.

It shows the hotel's price band per night: Under ₹1,500, ₹1,500–4,000, ₹4,000–9,000 or ₹9,000+. A "~" in front means the price is only a guide.

The trip preview is built without your travel dates, so the price band is based on a typical night. For the real price on your dates, choose the hotel and continue to booking (see Chapter 21).

Double-tap the photo or tap the Fullscreen image button. Then:

• Swipe left or right to move through the photos of that place.
• Tap the left or right edge to go to the previous or next photo. At the last photo of a place, the tap moves on to the next place.
• Pinch to zoom in, up to 4 times.
• Tap the rotate button to turn the picture sideways, and tap it again to reset.
• Tap the play or pause button to control the trip from here.
• Tap the info button to see the details of the place.
• Tap the close button at the top left to return to the trip.

The top bar shows your route (start to destination), the place name and the photo count, for example 2/5.

The description, the rating when there is one, an interesting fact and the amenities of a hotel, such as the facilities it offers.

Yes, from the trip summary. Tap a place in the list and it opens in your browser or in the Maps app (see 20.8).

Your place in the trip is remembered on your phone. Go back to the Start trip tab and tap Resume trip. The trip opens again at the stop you were on.

48 hours. After that it is removed. Only your most recent unfinished trip is kept, so starting a new trip and leaving it early replaces the earlier one.

There is no unfinished trip on this phone. Either you finished the last trip, or 48 hours have passed, or you have not left a trip early. Start a new trip instead.

No. When a trip finishes, there is nothing left to resume. Save it from the summary screen if you want to keep it (see 20.8).

No. It is kept on the phone where you were watching.

No. The video is made only when you watch the whole trip. If you leave early, the part recorded so far is discarded (see 20.10).

A "Finishing video…" message with a percentage appears for a moment while the video is put together. Then the Trip summary opens with "Trip complete!"

• Your start and destination, with the distance and travel time.
• The trip video, if one was made. Tap it to play or pause. It starts paused.
• Small tags counting the stops, such as "9 × Heritage/tourist" and "6 × Hotel".
• A list of every stop with its photo, name and description.
• Save trip and Done buttons.

• For a place: it opens its page on Google Maps in your browser or Maps app. If the link cannot be opened you see "Could not open link".
• For a hotel, marked Book: it opens the hotel search around that hotel so you can check rooms and book (Chapter 21).

Tap Save trip. You see "Trip saved" and the button changes to Saved. If saving fails you see "Could not save trip — try again". Tap again.

The trip is not kept. Tap Done and it is gone. Save it first if you want to see it again.

1. When you save an eleventh, a box titled "Saved trips full" says that saving it will delete your oldest saved trip. Tap Continue to go ahead, or Cancel to keep things as they are.

It takes you back to the Start trip tab. From a saved trip, it simply goes back to your list.

Open the Trip Planner, stay on the Start trip tab and tap Saved trips. If there are none you see "No saved trips yet."

Each trip shows "Start → Destination" and the date it was saved, with the newest first. An older trip that cannot be fully shown says "summary only" after the date.

• Tap it to open its summary: the video, the stops and the hotels.
• Tap the film icon to share its video (see 20.10).
• Tap the bin icon to delete it.

The saved trip opens as the summary. The video on that screen is the way to watch the trip again. If you want the animated drive, start the same trip again from the Start trip tab.

No. The bin icon deletes the trip straight away, along with its video. This cannot be undone.

Yes, the trips themselves. They are kept with your account as well as on your phone. After you log in on a new phone and open Saved trips, they appear again. This needs an internet connection and may take a moment.

The video. A trip's video is kept only on the phone where it was made. On a new phone you can make it again with the film icon (see 20.10).

Saved trips keep the links to the photos, not the pictures themselves. Photos and maps load from the internet when you open a trip.

Watch your trip to the end. The video is recorded automatically on your phone while the trip plays. You do not press anything. At the end, the summary shows it. Save the trip to keep it.

The map with the vehicle moving along the route, and the photo and name of each place as you reach it. The video is a standard MP4 file, 720 pixels wide, so it plays on any phone and in any chat app. It has a silent sound track.

A video is made only when you watch a new trip all the way to the end. It is not made if you leave early, or if you open a trip from Saved trips. If the map could not load during the trip, nothing could be recorded either. You can still make one from Saved trips.

1. Open Trip Planner, then Saved trips.
2. Tap the film icon (Share MP4) on the trip.
3. Choose where to send it in the share sheet, such as WhatsApp.

The trip must be saved first. The film icon appears only on trips that have a route saved.

This trip has no video on this phone, so KuhuChat is making one now. You will see these steps: Loading vehicle icon…, Loading places…, Loading photos…, Preparing map…, Recording video… and Sharing…. Keep the app open and wait. It can take a few minutes. When it is ready, the share sheet opens and the screen closes by itself.

The video could not be made, often because of a weak connection or because the map did not load. Check your internet and try again.

The video file is no longer on your phone. Use the film icon on the saved trip to make it again.

Yes. Pick the vehicle before you start the trip, or before you tap Share MP4 for a video that has to be made again.

For 10 or more guests, rooms are arranged by the KuhuChat team together with the hotel instead of through the normal booking. You send your plan, and the team contacts you with options and prices. No payment is taken in the app for a group request.

On the Book hotel tab, in the guests section of the hotel search, tap "More than 9 guests? Send a group request". The place and dates you already entered carry over to the form.

• Where do you want to stay? A town, city or hotel name.
• Check-in and check-out dates. Tap the dates and choose them on the calendar. The form starts with a date 14 days from today and one night.
• Number of guests: from 10 to 500.
• Rooms needed (optional).
• Your contact details: Name, Phone, and Email (optional).
• Anything else? (optional): for example the kind of group, or a budget.

Your name, phone and email are filled in from your account when KuhuChat has them. Check them and correct them if needed.

• "Group requests are for 10 or more guests." Use the normal hotel search for smaller groups.
• "Please call us for groups above 500." Contact KuhuChat support from the Contact page on kuhuchat.com.
• "Enter a valid phone number." Use at least 8 digits.
• "Enter a valid email." Check the spelling or leave the email empty.
• "Enter a number" or "Enter a valid number." Fix the guests or rooms box.

You see "Request sent. We will contact you on [your phone number] with options and prices for your group." Tap Done. The team uses the phone number you gave, so make sure it is the right one.

Up to 3 requests in 24 hours. After that you see "You have already sent several requests today. We will contact you soon." Wait for the team to reach you.

There is no edit or cancel button. If something changes, send a new request with the correct details or tell the team when they contact you.

Check your internet connection, then close the screen and open it again. Maps need data to load.

Long routes take longer to build. Wait a little, and if nothing happens, check your connection and tap Start trip again.

The map is being warmed up and the photos are loading. The photo step stops waiting after about 20 seconds, so the trip should start soon. On a very slow connection, move to better signal and start again.

That photo has not finished loading. The trip keeps moving and the photo appears when it arrives.

The trip runs on one clock. Tap the photo to pause it, or choose a slower speed such as 0.5x.

No hotels were available along that route when the trip was built. Use the Book hotel tab to search for a hotel directly (Chapter 21).

The road route could not be found, so the trip shows a straight line. Try again later.

The place had no name when you pinned it. The real name is filled in automatically the next time you open Saved trips while online.

Use the Contact page on kuhuchat.com.

Open the Trip Planner (the round Trip button on the Contacts tab or the Samaj tab) and stay on the Book hotel tab. The other tab, Start trip, is the trip preview described in Chapter 20. You can also tap Book on a hotel card inside a trip, which opens the hotel search around that hotel.

No. Hotel booking works for places in India only. If you pick a place outside India you will see "Hotel booking is available for places in India only."

No. You fill in the place, the dates and the guests first, and the search runs once when you tap Find hotels. Nothing is searched before that.

You have three ways. Use whichever is easiest.

• Search by name: type a village, town, city or area and pick it from the list.
• Pick on map: tap the map to drop a pin where you want to stay, and drag the pin to fine-tune it. Tap Use this location when you are happy. The name of the nearby place is looked up and shown on the button.
• Or choose an area: pick a State and a District. Taluka is optional.

The most specific one. A pin beats a searched place, a searched place beats a taluka, and a taluka beats a district.

Around an exact place or pin it looks nearby. For a taluka it looks around 15 km, and for a whole district it looks around several points (the district's talukas) so that the list covers the district and not just one town. If few hotels appear, choose a taluka or pin the exact spot and search again.

Not yet. Choose a district to see hotels. The screen says "Choose a district to see hotels. Showing the top hotels of a whole state is coming soon."

Check your internet and tap Retry. If only the talukas fail to load, you will see "Could not load talukas. You can still search the whole district." You can go ahead without choosing a taluka.

Your check-in and check-out dates, the number of rooms, and the adults and children in each room (see 21.2).

It searches hotels for your place, dates and guests and opens the list. If you change your mind later, tap the search summary at the top of the list to edit it.

No. Searching and looking at hotels is free. You pay only when you book.

Tap the date line and choose check-in and check-out on the calendar. A new search starts with a date 7 days from today, 1 night, 1 room and 2 adults, so you only need to change what is different.

Up to one year from today.

Up to 30 nights in one booking. If you choose longer you will see "Stays are limited to 30 nights."

Up to 9 rooms and 9 guests in one booking, and up to 6 guests in one room. The app tells you when you reach a limit:

• "Up to 9 guests in one booking. Larger groups: send a group request."
• "Up to 9 rooms in one booking."
• "Up to 6 guests in one room. Add another room."

Tap Add another room. Each room has its own adults and children. Tap the remove icon on a room to remove it. You must keep at least one room.

Children are 0 to 11 years old. From 12 a guest counts as an adult. This is the usual rule in Indian hotels. It is the hotel's policy, not a law.

Add the child in the room, then choose the child's age. The list starts at "Under 1" and goes up to 11 years. Hotels use the age to work out the right price and bed.

When there are more than 2 guests but only one room, a tip appears, for example "about 2 rooms (2 guests per room) is usual". It is only a suggestion. You can keep one room if the room type allows it.

Tap "More than 9 guests? Send a group request". The team arranges rooms with the hotel and contacts you. The place and dates you filled in carry over. See Chapter 20, item 20.11.

Hotel suppliers treat 10 or more people under one booking as a group booking and may cancel a normal booking made for a group. The group request avoids that.

Yes. Tap the search summary or Edit search at the top of the list, change the details and tap Search hotels. The list is rebuilt for the new dates.

A header says "Showing hotels in" with your place, then a count such as "12 hotels found". Each hotel card shows its photo, name, star class, guest rating, how many room types it has, and the price.

The best matches, ten at a time. Tap "Show more hotels" at the bottom to see the next ones.

As the total for your whole stay. For stays of more than one night, the price per night appears below it. With more than one room the card also shows the number of rooms. All prices are in rupees.

The price you pay in KuhuChat is shown on the card. Some hotels also charge taxes or fees at the hotel. When that applies, the room shows a line such as "+ ₹300 taxes and fees payable at the hotel". That amount is not part of the price you pay in the app.

Price bands based on the cheapest room's price per night. Budget is under ₹1,500, Mid is ₹1,500 to ₹3,999, Premium is ₹4,000 to ₹8,999 and Luxury is ₹9,000 and above. Tap a band to show only hotels in it. You can pick more than one.

Tap one of the sort chips:

• Top rated (the default)
• Price: low to high
• Price: high to low

Tap the filter button and choose from:

• Refundable rooms only: hide rooms that cannot be cancelled for a refund.
• Guest rating (out of 10): choose Any, or a minimum rating.
• Star class: pick one or more of the star options.
• Must have: Free WiFi, Swimming pool, Air conditioning, Restaurant, Breakfast.

Then tap Show hotels. Tap Reset to clear the choices inside the filter sheet.

Yes. A small number on the button shows how many filters are active.

Stars (1 to 5) describe the hotel's class and facilities. The guest rating (out of 10) comes from guests' reviews. A 2-star hotel can still have a very high guest rating.

Bookings in the app have a maximum value (see 21.8). Rooms priced above that maximum are hidden so you only see rooms you can actually book.

The hotel information for this area has no star classes, so the star filter cannot be applied. Use the other filters, guest rating or price instead.

There is nothing available for your place and dates. Tap Change dates or guests, try other dates, widen your area (choose the district instead of a taluka), or tap Clear filters if you had filters on.

Your filters are too narrow. Tap Clear filters.

Check your internet and tap Try again.

The list price is the price at the time of the search. Before you pay, the app checks the price again at checkout (see 21.5). If it changed, you are told.

Tap a hotel in the list. The details page opens with the photos at the top.

• Photos: swipe through the gallery. Tap a photo to see it full screen, and pinch to zoom.
• Name, star class and guest rating.
• Address and, when the hotel has one, a phone number.
• About this hotel: the hotel's description. Tap to read more.
• Facilities: the first ten, with "Show all" to see the rest.
• Good to know: important information from the hotel, such as check-in rules.
• Choose a room: every room type with its price.
• Guest reviews.

A section shows only when the hotel supplies that information. A hotel with little information still shows its name, address, rooms and prices.

The room name, a refundable or non-refundable tag, the meal plan if any (for example Breakfast included or Room only), beds, room size, how many guests it sleeps, a strip of room photos and the price. When you select a room, its amenities are listed too.

• Refundable: you can cancel for a full refund within the hotel's cancellation terms.
• Non-refundable: you cannot cancel for a full refund. If you cancel or do not arrive, charges apply.
• Partly refundable: some of the money comes back if you cancel.

Check the tag on every room before you choose. If a room has no tag, the hotel did not give its terms.

Some rooms have a higher usual price. When your price is lower, the old price appears crossed out with "Save ₹…" under your price.

Tap the room card. The selected room is highlighted and the price bar at the bottom changes to that room. Nothing is booked yet.

Yes. The room name is exactly what the hotel receives with your booking.

They are reviews of the hotel collected by our hotel supplier. Each review shows a score out of 10, the guest's name, country and type of traveller, a headline, and what the guest liked and disliked. KuhuChat does not edit them.

A few appear first. Tap "Show all" to read them all and "Show fewer reviews" to fold them again.

Reviews load separately from the rest of the page. If they fail, the page still works and you can still book. Go back and open the hotel again to retry.

Tap Book this room at the bottom. Checkout opens for that exact room (see 21.5).

Checkout opens and first confirms that the room is still available and locks its final price. A short loading screen shows while this happens. Then the guest details form opens.

Prices can change between the search and checkout. If it did, you see "Heads up: the price shifted X% since search. The amount above is the current, correct price." Check the new amount before you continue.

The cancellation or meal-plan terms were updated by the hotel since the search. You see "Heads up: the cancellation or meal-plan terms changed since search. Please review before paying." Read them before paying.

First name, last name, email and phone number of the main guest. Use the details of the person who will check in. Your email must look like an email address, otherwise you will see "Enter a valid email".

The form shows "Main guest (Room 1)" and then "Guest in each other room", with a first and last name for Room 2 onwards. The hotel needs one name per room. If a name is missing you will see "Please enter a guest name for each of the … rooms."

A box appears: "Non-refundable room". It explains that you cannot cancel for a full refund, and you must tick "I understand and accept that this booking is non-refundable" before you can continue. Without the tick you will see "Please tick the box to confirm this room is non-refundable."

Tap Continue to payment. A secure payment form opens inside the app. Enter your payment details there and pay.

No. Payment is handled by our hotel and payment partner on their secure form. KuhuChat does not see or store your card details.

Indian rupees (₹).

A screen says "Finalizing your booking" while the booking is completed with the hotel. Do not close the app or press back during this step. When it finishes, the booking confirmation opens (see 21.6).

Do not pay again. Close the screen, wait a few minutes and check for your confirmation. If the error says "Back to guest details", you can go back and try again only if you were not charged. If you were charged and have no confirmation, contact us from the Contact page on kuhuchat.com with the time and your phone number.

Checkout holds a rate for a limited time. Go back to the hotel, choose the room again and start checkout again.

Someone else booked it or the hotel changed it. Search again and choose another room.

You can have only one live booking for the same hotel on the same dates. Cancel the existing booking first if you want to book again.

You tapped twice or reopened a finished checkout. Wait for the confirmation. A single checkout can only turn into one booking.

Bookings are paused for a short while on our side. Try again later.

That stay is above the maximum value we allow in one booking (see 21.8). Choose a cheaper room or fewer rooms.

The price could not be checked for this room. Choose another room or another hotel.

Yes. Enter that person's name as the guest. Use an email you can read.

Yes. You are always signed in to KuhuChat, and the booking is tied to your account. Only you can cancel or change it.

The hotel name and address, your Booking ID and the booking status at the top, for example "Booking CONFIRMED". Below are buttons to call the hotel, open the hotel in Maps, fix guest details, change dates and cancel.

A code from the hotel itself that proves it has your booking. When the booking is first made, the screen says "Confirming with the hotel. This will update automatically the moment the confirmation code comes back, no need to refresh." The code appears by itself once the hotel sends it.

It is usually quick, but some hotels confirm manually and take longer. Leave the screen open or come back to it. You do not need to refresh.

Your booking and payment are recorded under your Booking ID. The hotel confirmation code is the hotel's own acknowledgement. If you want to be sure, use Call hotel and quote your Booking ID and name.

Tap Call hotel. The button shows the hotel's phone number and opens your phone dialler. The button appears only when the hotel has a phone number on file. If the dialler cannot open you will see "Could not open the phone dialer."

Tap Open in Maps. It opens the hotel's location in your maps app. If it cannot open you will see "Could not open maps."

• CONFIRMED: your booking is made.
• CANCELLED: the booking was cancelled with no charges.
• CANCELLED WITH CHARGES: the booking was cancelled but charges apply because the rate was non-refundable or past its free-cancellation time.
• BOOK ERROR: the booking could not be completed. Check with us before paying again.

Note your Booking ID, hotel name and hotel confirmation code from this screen and keep them safe. They are what the hotel and our team will ask for.

It closes the confirmation screen and takes you back. Your booking is not affected.

On the booking confirmation screen tap Cancel booking. A box asks "Cancel this booking?" and explains that if the booking is non-refundable or past its free-cancellation time, it will still be cancelled but you may not get a refund. Tap Cancel booking to go ahead or Keep booking to leave it as it is.

That depends on the room's own cancellation terms, which you saw on the room card and in Good to know. The result is shown right after you confirm:

• "Booking cancelled and refunded per the cancellation policy." The booking was refundable and the refund is on its way.
• "Booking cancelled. This rate was non-refundable, so charges apply." The booking is cancelled, but you are charged as the terms say.

The refund goes back through the payment method you used. How long it takes depends on your bank or card company.

The hotel's cancellation terms decide it. KuhuChat shows you the result and does not change it.

No. Once cancelled, the booking cannot be brought back. Search and book again if you change your mind, subject to availability and price.

Check your internet and tap Cancel booking again. If you cancelled earlier, the status already shows CANCELLED and nothing more happens.

No. Only the person who made the booking can cancel it.

The hotel's rules apply. Call the hotel with your Booking ID, since a late cancellation may carry charges.

On the confirmation screen tap "Fix guest name / email". Correct the First name, Last name or Email and tap Save. You will see "Guest details updated."

This option fixes the main guest's name and email, for example a typo. It does not change dates, rooms or other guests.

Hotels do not accept guest changes close to check-in, or after cancellation. Call the hotel with your Booking ID and ask them to correct the name at the desk.

On the confirmation screen tap Change dates and choose the new check-in and check-out dates on the calendar. The app looks for the same hotel on the new dates.

No. Looking up new dates changes nothing. Your original booking stays as it is, and stays charged, until you choose a new rate and confirm it.

A list titled "Choose a new rate" shows the available options with their prices. If the new dates have different cancellation or meal terms, the option says "Cancellation/meal terms differ from your current booking". Read this before you choose.

A new booking is created for the new dates and your old booking is cancelled automatically. The screen says "Dates updated. This is now booking …" with the new Booking ID. Use the new Booking ID from now on.

The new booking replaces the old one. The price difference and any charges depend on the old and new rates and their terms, which are shown on the option before you choose it.

This hotel has no rooms for those dates. Try other dates, or cancel and book a different hotel.

The same, for those exact dates. Try nearby dates.

Your original booking is still in place. Try again, or call the hotel.

Only the person who made it. A booking that is already cancelled cannot be changed. Dates can be changed only on a CONFIRMED booking.

Not on the confirmation screen. Cancel and book again, or call the hotel.

Yes. Bookings in the app have a maximum value so that nobody makes a very large payment by mistake. Currently the limit is ₹20,000 per room, with a ceiling of ₹60,000 for one booking, whatever the number of rooms. If you go over it the app tells you the exact limit.

Yes. A room that is not fully refundable can be booked only up to ₹10,000 in total.

They protect you while hotel booking is new in KuhuChat. For larger stays, send a group request or contact us.

No. They can be raised as the service grows. The app always shows the current limit.

Up to 9 rooms, 9 guests, 6 guests in one room and 30 nights (see 21.2).

No. A room is booked only after payment.

Yes. The booking is made with the hotel and stored against your account and your Booking ID. Note your Booking ID and hotel confirmation code in case you need to contact the hotel.

Booking can be switched off for a short time for maintenance. You will see "Hotel booking is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." No money is taken when this message shows.

Make sure you have an internet connection, then close the Trip Planner and open it again.

The pin is outside India. Drop it inside India, or search by name.

Pick a smaller area (a taluka or a pin) or a nearby larger town, remove filters, and try other dates. Small villages often have only a few hotels.

Rooms above the maximum booking value are hidden (see 21.9). Choose fewer rooms, shorter stays or cheaper hotels.

Check your internet. A hotel may also have few photos on file.

Not every hotel has one in our records. Use the address and Open in Maps instead.

Check your internet, go back to the guest details and tap Continue to payment again. If it still does not open, close and reopen the app.

Contact us from the Contact page on kuhuchat.com with your phone number and both Booking IDs, if you have them. Only one booking can exist for the same hotel and dates, so we will look at it for you.

Send a group request (see 20.11).

A collection of 20 small tools that work on your phone, so you do not need separate apps. They cover calculations (calculator, interest, units, area, materials, metal weight), money and notes (bill, quote, khata, notebook), phone sensors (compass, light, noise, vibration, speed, torch) and scanning and files (QR, document scanner, photo editor, photo to PDF).

No. All tools are free to use.

No. The tools work without internet. Only opening a link from the QR scanner needs it. Nothing you type into a tool is sent to our servers. Everything is stored on your phone only.

• Tap the toolbox icon (a small hammer-and-spanner) in the top bar of the Samaj, Contacts, Social or Business tab.
• Inside any chat, tap the same icon in the chat's top bar. It opens the Toolbox as a sheet over the chat, so you can use a tool and send the answer straight into your message (see below).
• On Android, from the Kuhu Tools icon on your phone's home screen (see Chapter 2, item 2.10).
• From the long-press shortcuts on the KuhuChat icon on your phone (see below).

A search box ("Search tools"), a row of profession filters, a section for recently used tools, and a grid of tools. The tools are grouped as Calculate, Money & notes, Sensors and Scan & files.

Type in the search box. The list shows matching tools under "Results", or "No tool found" if nothing matches. You can also scroll the grid.

Chips across the top: Mason / Builder, Carpenter, Painter, Electrician / Plumber, Welder / Fabricator, Tailor, Mechanic, Driver / Delivery, Farmer, Shopkeeper / Trader, Site / Vaastu, and Office & documents. Tap one and the Toolbox shows "For" followed by that profession, with the tools most useful for that work. Tap All to see everything again.

The filter is a shortcut, not a limit. Tap All and every tool is there.

The last six tools you opened, newest first, so your favourite tools are one tap away.

Open a tool and tap the pin icon at the top ("Pin: open this tool first"). The Toolbox then opens that tool first. Tap the icon again ("Unpin") to remove it. You can pin one tool at a time.

Most tools have the same three buttons:

• Send to chat: appears only when you opened the Toolbox from inside a chat. It puts the result in your message box.
• Share: opens your phone's share sheet so you can send the result through any app.
• Save to log: saves the result in your Notebook (see 22.11). A green "Saved to log" appears.

No. It adds the result to your message box and closes the Toolbox. You can read it, edit it and then tap send yourself. If you already typed something, the result is added on a new line.

Press and hold the KuhuChat icon on your phone's home screen to see Tools, Scan document, Bill maker and QR scanner. Tap one to open it directly.

On Android, open the three-dot menu and choose Home screen icons. Switch on KuhuTools icon, KuhuBiz Search icon or KuhuTrip icon. Switch it off to remove it. Do not uninstall to remove an icon, because that removes the whole KuhuChat app. See Chapter 2, item 2.10.

Only on your phone. Your khata entries, notes, saved results, scans and edited photos stay there. They do not move to a new phone, and they are lost if you uninstall KuhuChat or clear its data. Share or save anything important before that.

Add, subtract, multiply and divide, percentages, and GST. It is a simple calculator and is not scientific.

Type a number, press an operator, type the second number and press %. For example, 200 + 10 % gives 10 percent of 200 added to 200, which is 220.

Choose a rate below the display (5%, 12%, 18% or 28%). The default is 18%. Type the amount and tap Add GST to get the price with GST, or Remove GST to find the price before GST. The line above the answer shows the GST amount.

C clears everything. The backspace key removes the last digit you typed.

The display shows Error. Tap C and start again.

Yes. Use Share, Save to log, or Send to chat (when opened from a chat). The result is sent with the line of working above it.

Four groups of units:

• Length: metre, centimetre, millimetre, kilometre, inch, foot, yard.
• Area: square metre, square foot, square yard, acre, hectare, square kilometre.
• Weight: kilogram, gram, quintal, tonne, pound.
• Volume: litre, millilitre, cubic metre, US gallon.

Pick the group (Length, Area, Weight or Volume). Choose the From unit and the To unit. Type the Value. The answer appears at once, for example "10 foot = 3.048 m".

No. The converter uses standard (global) units only. Local land units differ from state to state, so we do not guess them.

Answers are shown to up to 6 decimal places, with unnecessary zeros removed.

Area: Rectangle, Triangle and Circle. Volume: Box / Room / Tank, Cylinder / Round tank and Sphere.

Choose the shape. Fields appear for that shape, for example Length and Width for a rectangle, Radius for a circle, Radius and Height for a cylinder. Choose a unit and type the sizes. The answer appears immediately.

Metre, centimetre, foot or inch. Use the same unit for every field.

The area or volume in your unit and also in other common units. Area is also shown in square metres, square feet, acres and hectares. Volume is also shown in cubic metres, litres and cubic feet.

Use Area and volume to find the size, then Material estimate (22.9) to find how much paint or how many tiles you need.

Simple interest, compound interest (yearly) and EMI (monthly loan instalment). Switch between them with the Simple, Compound and EMI buttons at the top.

Principal, Interest rate per year (%), and Time in years.

Loan amount, Interest rate per year (%), and Number of months.

• Simple: the interest and the total to pay.
• Compound (yearly): the interest and the total to pay, with interest added once a year.
• EMI: the monthly instalment, the total interest over the loan, and the total to pay.

It is a close guide. Banks may add processing fees, insurance or round off differently, so confirm with your lender.

A simple record of money you gave to or got from people, with the balance for each person shown instantly. Everything stays on your phone.

Type the person's Name and the Amount. Add a Note if you wish. Then tap You gave if you gave money, or You got if you received money.

"You gave" counts as money the person owes you. "You got" reduces that, or counts as money you owe them. The list shows each person as To receive, To pay or Settled.

Totals at the top: the total others owe you, and the total you owe others, across all people.

Tap the person's name. Every entry shows with its date and time, amount and note.

Yes. Open the person and use Share or Send to chat. The statement starts with "Khata:" and the name, lists every entry with date, Gave or Got, amount and note, and ends with the balance.

Open the person and tap the delete icon beside the entry.

It is stored only on your phone and is not uploaded or backed up. If you uninstall the app or change phones it is not carried over, so share statements you need to keep.

No. It is a record only. Use a chat message or a reminder (Chapter 12) to follow up.

It makes a quick bill or invoice as text that you can send in a chat or share. It works offline.

1. Type Your shop / name. It is remembered for next time.
2. Type the Customer if you wish (optional).
3. Type an Item, its Qty and its Rate, then tap Add. Repeat for every item.
4. Choose GST: None, 5%, 12%, 18% or 28%.
5. Type a Discount amount if you give one (optional).

Then Share it, or Send to chat when opened from a chat.

Tap the small cross beside the item.

"BILL" with today's date, the customer, each item as "Qty x Rate = amount", the Sub total, the Discount, the GST amount and the TOTAL.

Tap New bill. It clears the items and keeps your shop name.

No. It is a simple, clear bill in text form. It has no invoice number, GSTIN or tax breakup, so it does not replace a tax invoice. Use your accounting software for tax invoices.

No. Type the discount as an amount in rupees.

An estimate you give a customer before starting a job. The Quote maker builds it from your labour, material and transport costs.

Type Your name / shop, the Customer (optional) and a Work description. Then fill in the costs:

• Days and Rate per day for labour.
• Material cost.
• Transport / other.
• GST: None, 5%, 12% or 18%.
• Advance (%) you want before starting.
• Valid for (days).

"QUOTE" with today's date, who it is for, the work, labour (days x rate), material, transport, GST, the TOTAL, the Advance amount, the Balance after work, and "Valid till" the last date the quote holds.

Use Share, or Send to chat when opened from a chat.

It is only an estimate you write yourself. KuhuChat does not check prices. Review the numbers before you send.

How much you need to buy for six common jobs: Paint, Floor tiles, Bricks (wall), Concrete (slab), Plaster and Fabric.

Choose the job. The fields change to match it. Type the sizes, set the Extra / wastage slider, and read the quantity.

• Paint: Wall length (ft), Wall height (ft), Coats, Coverage (sq ft per litre). You get litres of paint.
• Floor tiles: Room length (ft), Room width (ft), Tile length (inch), Tile width (inch). You get the number of tiles.
• Bricks (wall): Wall length (ft), Wall height (ft), Wall thickness (inch), Bricks per cubic ft. You get the number of bricks.
• Concrete (slab): Length (ft), Width (ft), Thickness (inch). You get concrete in cubic metres and cubic feet, and about how many 50 kg cement bags.
• Plaster: Wall length (ft), Wall height (ft), Plaster thickness (mm). You get the mortar volume and about how many 50 kg cement bags.
• Fabric: Length needed (m), Fabric width (m), Pieces, Metres per piece. You get the metres to buy.

A slider from 0% to 30%, set at 10% to begin. It adds extra for breakage, cutting and spills. The answer says "with 10% extra", or whatever you chose.

No. They are rough. Concrete uses about 7 bags of 50 kg cement for every cubic metre of a common mix, and plaster uses a 1:6 mix. Your real mix, sand and mason's method change the result.

Because every answer is an estimate. Always check on site and with your supplier before you buy.

They match how each job is usually measured in India. Keep the length fields in feet as labelled.

The weight in kilograms of a piece of metal or wood from its size, and the total weight for the number of pieces.

Mild steel, Stainless steel, Cast iron, Aluminium, Copper, Brass, Wood (teak) and Wood (generic).

Round bar, Flat / Plate, Square bar, Pipe and Sheet.

• Round bar: Diameter (mm).
• Flat / Plate: Width (mm) and Thickness (mm).
• Square bar: Side (mm).
• Pipe: Outer diameter (mm) and Wall thickness (mm).
• Sheet: Area (m²) and Thickness (mm).

All shapes except Sheet also ask for Length (m). Then type the Quantity.

The material and shape, the weight of one piece, and the total weight for your quantity, for example "Qty 10: 24.5 kg".

For a pipe, twice the wall thickness cannot be more than the outer diameter. Check your numbers.

It uses standard densities (for example mild steel 7850 kg per cubic metre). Real stock can differ by a few percent, so use it for planning and quoting, not for billing by weight.

Your quick notes and work log. It also collects everything you saved with Save to log from any other tool.

Type in "Write a note (measurement, job, address, rate...)" and tap Save note.

Type in "Search saved notes". The list shows notes that contain your words.

Tap the send icon to send it to a chat (when opened from a chat), or the delete icon to remove it.

The newest 500 saved results. When you go past that, the oldest drop off.

No. They are stored on your phone only. See 22.1.

You have not saved a note or a tool result yet. Use Save note, or Save to log in another tool.

It turns paper into a clean PDF using your camera. It finds the edges of the page, straightens the picture, and lets you scan many pages into one PDF.

Tap Scan document, point the camera at the page and capture. Add more pages if you need to, then finish. The PDF opens straight away.

Scan followed by the date and time, for example Scan_20261102_153045.pdf.

On your phone, inside KuhuChat. Nothing is uploaded. The list shows each scan's name, number of pages, and date and time.

Tap a scan to open it, or use the open, share and delete icons beside it. Share lets you send the PDF through any app, or in a chat.

Yes. On iPhone the tool uses Apple's own document camera.

The file may have been moved or damaged. Scan the document again.

Allow camera permission for KuhuChat in your phone settings, then try again.

Yes. Use Photo to PDF (22.13) and its PDF to Photos tab.

Two things, on two tabs: Photos to PDF (combine photos into one PDF) and PDF to Photos (turn each page of a PDF into a picture).

1. On the Photos to PDF tab, tap Add photos and choose your photos.
2. Hold and drag the pages to change their order.
3. Switch on "No margin (fill the page)" if you want each photo to fill the page.
4. Tap Make PDF.

You will see "PDF ready", with the number of pages and the size in KB. Then tap Open PDF or Share PDF.

Tap Clear.

On the PDF to Photos tab, tap Choose PDF and pick your PDF. Each page becomes a PNG picture. Tap a page to share or save it, or tap Share all pages.

When converting a PDF to photos, only the first 30 pages are converted. The tool tells you "Only the first 30 pages were converted." Split a longer PDF first.

No. The work is done on your phone.

In KuhuChat's own folder on your phone. Use Share to move a file into another app or save it where you want.

Rotate and flip, crop, change brightness, contrast and colour, make a photo black and white, draw on it, and add text.

Tap Camera to take a photo, or Gallery to choose one.

• Adjust: Rotate, Flip, Black & white, and sliders for Brightness, Contrast and Colour.
• Crop: Trim left, Trim right, Trim top and Trim bottom, each up to about 45% of the picture.
• Draw: draw with your finger. Choose the Pen size. Tap Undo to remove the last stroke, or Clear drawing to remove all.
• Text: tap Add text, type your words and tap Add. Choose the Text size. Drag the text to move it. Long-press the text to delete it.

They lock after you draw or add text. Rotate and flip first, then draw or add text.

Tap Save. The photo is saved as a PNG inside KuhuChat, and you see "Saved in the app. Tap Gallery to put it in your phone gallery, or Share." Tap Gallery to also put it in your phone's gallery, or Share to send it.

No. The original stays as it was. Your edit is saved as a new picture.

Tap Reset all to go back to the original photo.

Save the photo to your phone first, then choose it from Gallery in the editor.

It scans a QR code or barcode with your camera and tells you what it contains, so you do not need another app.

That depends on the code:

• A KuhuChat link (a shop, hotel or profile page on kuhuchat.com): shows "Kuhuchat page" with an Open page button, which opens it inside the app.
• A UPI payment code: shows "Payment QR" with who you will pay, their UPI id, and the amount and note if the code has them. Tap Open in UPI app to pay in your own UPI app.
• A website link: shows the address first. Tap the Open button to go to it. If the link starts with http and not https, the scanner warns "This link is not secure (http). Be careful."
• Anything else: shows the text, with Copy, Share and Save to log.

No. It never moves money. It only reads the code and opens your own UPI app. You pay and confirm in that app.

Read the name on the screen and check it matches the shop or person you mean to pay, before you open your UPI app. A fake QR sticker can show a different name.

No. A website link opens only when you tap the Open button.

Tap Scan again.

Allow camera permission for KuhuChat in your phone settings, then open the scanner again.

Not in this tool. It scans live with the camera.

It uses your phone's compass and motion sensors, and corrects for tilt. It shows your heading in degrees and a direction such as N or SW. Hold the phone flat.

Magnetic north. The screen says "Magnetic north. Hold the phone flat." It does not correct for the small difference between magnetic and true north in your area.

No. The compass needs no permission.

Move away from metal, magnets, speakers, or a phone cover with a magnet. Wave the phone gently in a figure of 8 to recalibrate it.

The strength of the magnetic field the sensor reads, in microtesla (T). The screen says "Sensor OK" when it is normal, between about 25 and 65. A reading far outside that means something nearby is disturbing the compass.

Wait a few seconds. If it stays that way, your phone probably has no magnetic compass sensor, and a compass cannot work on it. Try it on another phone to confirm.

A switch that adds the traditional Vaastu meaning of the direction you are facing, for the eight main directions. For example, North is Kubera (wealth), North-East is Ishaan (prayer room, water), East is Indra (main entrance, windows, study), and South-East is Agni (kitchen).

No. It is labelled "Traditional guidance only". It describes common tradition, not a scientific or legal standard.

Yes. Use Share, Save to log, or Send to chat. It includes the heading and the Vaastu line if the view is on.

It measures how bright a room or work area is in lux, and tells you whether it is bright enough for the work you do.

Open the tool and point the top of your phone, near the front camera, toward the light. Wait for the reading. Move it around to measure different spots.

The reading is described as Very dark (under 50 lux), Dim (under 150), Normal room light (under 400), Bright (under 1000), Very bright / near window (under 10,000) or Direct sunlight.

The lowest, average and highest readings since you opened the tool or last tapped Reset.

The list "Enough light for the work?" shows general guide values: Walking and storage 100 lux, General room work 300, Reading, writing and sewing 500, Fine work such as tailoring, electronics and repair 750, and Very fine work such as inspection and jewellery 1000.

No. They are general guidance only. Phone sensors also differ by a few percent.

Wait a moment. If it never starts, your phone may not have an ambient light sensor.

No.

How loud it is around you, in decibels (dB).

No. The microphone is switched on only after you tap Start, and only the loudness number is used. Nothing is recorded or saved. Tap Stop to switch the microphone off.

The current dB, a description, and the Average and Highest readings. Descriptions: Very quiet (under 40 dB), Quiet / normal talk (under 60), Loud (under 80), Very loud with ear protection advised for long work (under 90), and Dangerous for ears, use ear protection (90 and above).

Approximate. Phone microphones are not calibrated, so the screen says "Approximate. Nothing is recorded." Use it to compare places or machines, not for legal or safety checks. For those, use a calibrated meter.

Allow microphone permission for KuhuChat in your phone settings, close other apps that may be using the microphone, and try again.

Yes. The text includes the current, average and highest dB and the description.

A GPS speedometer and trip meter for drivers, delivery work and field visits. It shows your speed in km/h, trip distance, moving time, average speed and top speed.

Tap Start trip. Use Pause when you stop and Resume to continue. Tap Reset to start a fresh trip.

Location. The app asks the first time.

No. It works only while KuhuChat is open. The screen says "Keep the app open while driving."

Not always. It is measured by GPS, so it can differ slightly from the vehicle's meter.

The message shows the signal accuracy in metres. Move to open sky away from tall buildings. Weak readings are ignored so that GPS jitter does not add false distance.

Yes. Use Share, Save to log or Send to chat. The text reads like "Trip: 12.4 km in 00:31:10 moving. Average 24 km/h, top 58 km/h", with the start time.

The Trip Planner (Chapter 20) previews a route and places. The Speed and trip meter measures a trip you are actually driving.

It turns on your phone's flash as a flashlight, in three modes: Steady, Blink and SOS.

The flash blinks the SOS signal in Morse code: three short, three long, three short.

No. It turns itself off when you leave the tool.

The torch cannot work while the camera is busy, for example when the QR scanner or document scanner is open. Close them and try again.

Your phone does not have a flash that apps can use.

Checking vibration on a motor, pump, washing machine, fan or vehicle, to see if it is running smoothly. You compare it with a reading taken when the machine was healthy.

Place the phone flat on the machine. Tap Start. The screen shows the vibration strength, a live graph and the Average and Peak values. Tap Stop when done.

Almost none, Light, Medium, Strong and Very strong, based on the vibration strength. The strength is in metres per second squared.

When the machine is healthy, measure it and tap Save as Normal. The tool remembers this reading. Later readings are compared with it.

If the new reading is within about 15% of Normal it says "Same as your Normal reading." If it is higher, it tells you how many percent more, with a hint to check mounting, bearings and balance. If it is lower, it says how many percent less.

Use the same machine, the same spot and the same phone each time. The screen reminds you of this.

No. It is a relative check, not a calibrated lab instrument.

No.

Yes. Type a name in English letters and KuhuChat also finds it when it is saved in your own language, and the other way round. For example, typing "Paresh" in English letters can find the same name written in Gujarati, Hindi or another Indian script. This is helpful when contacts, members and relatives were saved in different scripts.

Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Bengali (also used for Assamese), Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, along with English letters.

Not yet. Urdu names are matched only as they are typed.

• Contact search (Chapter 10, item 10.3) and the Contacts list order.
• Samaj search and Pehchan (Chapter 4).
• Group search (Chapter 13, item 13.8).
• Chat search, for messages written in your language (Chapter 10, item 10.11).
• Business search, for shops, products and services (Chapter 14, item 14.7).
• Diary search (Chapter 18).
• The order of names in the Family Tree (Chapter 5).

No. Names always appear exactly as they were written. The matching is used only to search and to sort.

The Contacts list and the Family Tree sort names by how they sound, so "Paresh" and its Gujarati spelling land together in A to Z order, instead of being split into one group per script.

Spelling varies a lot when a name is written in another script, so the search is forgiving and also shows close matches. Tap the person to check the full name.

No. It works automatically wherever you search.

Block them. Long-press the person in your Contacts list or your Samaj members list and tap Block. After that you cannot message each other, and you stop seeing each other's wall, family tree, business, status and radar pins. They are not told that you blocked them. See Chapter 3, item 3.6.

Yes. Once either of you blocks the other, the two of you are treated as blocked everywhere in the app. You can unblock from Blocked Users in the menu.

No. To join a Samaj you register with your caste and native village. From the 4th member of a village, a village admin must approve you first. Admins can also ask you to verify your identity, and two admins must agree before a request is rejected. See Chapter 1, item 1.5.

People who create a group can add the contacts they pick to it. Later additions come as an invitation that you can accept or reject. If you do not want to be in a group, you can leave it at any time. See Chapter 13.

Yes. New posts on your own wall wait for your approval and appear to others only after you approve them. See Chapter 9, item 9.3.

Posts can wait for approval by a village admin, admins can delete posts from their own origin village, and members can vote to remove a post. See Chapter 7.

Interests are sent and answered inside the app, contact details are shared only after both people accept, and you can block or report a profile. You can also delete your profile whenever you want. See Chapter 6.

After you reject an interest, the sender has to wait before sending another. See Chapter 6, item 6.6.

Each person can give one rating to a business, can change it but not stack it, and cannot rate their own business. See Chapter 14, item 14.12.

A person can send at most 3 group hotel requests a day. The login OTP also has limits: too many tries in a row shows "Too many attempts. Please wait a few minutes before retrying," and the daily SMS limit can show "SMS quota exceeded for today." See Chapter 1, item 1.1.

It can be banned. A banned account sees a screen with the reason and a Logout button and cannot use the app. If you think it is a mistake, contact us from the Contact page on kuhuchat.com.

Businesses are verified with government credentials, and a business appears in the verified Business Circle only with at least 2 verified credentials, including PAN. Unverified shops are shown separately and are marked Unverified. See Chapter 14.

For a matrimony profile, use Report. For anything else, contact us from the Contact page on kuhuchat.com with the person's name, the place it happened in and what you saw.

At the moment reporting is available for matrimony profiles. For messages and other content, block the person and contact us.

It depends on where you posted. Some things are deleted automatically to keep storage small and your feeds fresh. Save anything you want to keep before it expires.

• Chat photos, videos, voice messages and documents: about 30 days after they were sent. The file is deleted from our storage.
• Samaj Gallery posts: about 90 days after upload.
• Wall posts: about 15 days after they were approved, along with their photo, video, voice note or music.
• Doors on a wall: 5 days.
• Voice status: about 12 hours after you record it.
• Voice messages left for someone (the inbox): 2 days.
• Reminders: they are removed a few minutes after they go off.

Radar pins stay until you delete them. Your Diary threads, your family tree, your matrimony biodata (until it expires, see Chapter 6), your business, your khata and notes stay until you delete them.

No. Deleting is done by scheduled clean-ups that run every hour or once a night, so something can stay a little longer than the time above.

The photo, video, voice message or document is deleted from our storage. You can still see that the message existed in the chat, but the file cannot be opened any more.

Save it to your phone before it expires, or tag it to your Diary (Chapter 18).

Save the photo or video to your phone, or tag the post to your Diary before it expires.

Yes. Deleting a post also deletes its photo, video or voice file from our storage, not only the entry in the app. If the first attempt fails, the app retries it later so the file does not stay behind.

A gallery post still waiting for approval after about an hour is published automatically. See Chapter 7.

Counts for wall posts and pins are re-checked every hour, and posts that have expired are removed from them. See Chapter 2, item 2.3.

It is your login and your account ID. You can use KuhuChat only with your mobile number and a one-time code, and there is no password.

It turns the last 10 digits of each number into a scrambled code (a SHA-256 hash) and compares the codes. Your account also holds a scrambled code of your own number, so friends can be matched without KuhuChat showing a plain list of numbers.

After you log in, KuhuChat may sync your contacts automatically. It does this at most about once every 12 hours, never on every app launch. You can also sync by hand with the Sync button in the Contacts search.

The sync is skipped and your chats and groups still work. You can allow it later in your phone settings.

No. A browser cannot read your phone's contacts. It shows the contacts that your phone has already synced.

Messages and media links are encrypted with AES-256 and protected in transit. They are not end-to-end encrypted, because the keys are managed by KuhuChat so chats can be restored on a new phone. Do not share bank PINs or passwords in any chat. See Chapter 10, item 10.14.

Only what you choose to share. In your Samaj, admins of your village can contact members for verification, and the admin screen shows admins' phone numbers to members who are waiting for verification (Chapter 1, item 1.5). In Matrimony, contact details are shared only after both people accept an interest.

The Noise meter in the Toolbox uses the microphone only after you tap Start, and records nothing. Location is used only for features you open, such as radar pins, nearby business alerts, trips, the speed meter and location sharing, and live location stops when its timer ends or you stop it. Nearby business alerts need background location, which you must turn on yourself.

Payment happens on a secure form run by our hotel and payment partner. KuhuChat does not see or store your card details. See Chapter 21, item 21.5.

Photos, videos and voice notes are stored with our media storage partner, and your account data and messages are stored in our cloud database. Deleting a post also deletes its file (see 23.3).

Follow the steps in Chapter 2, item 2.8, or read Chapter 24 for the full details of what is deleted and what is kept.

On kuhuchat.com, in the Privacy page linked from the footer.

Partly. Chats you already loaded stay on your phone, so you can open and read them. Sending, receiving new messages, maps, hotel booking and most live features need internet.

KuhuChat keeps a copy of your recent chat messages on your phone, like most chat apps, so a chat opens straight away and does not go blank when your signal drops. When you are back online it catches up.

It waits in an outbox on your phone and is sent automatically when the connection returns. See Chapter 10, item 10.13.

They are kept in a quick-start copy on your phone, so they open at once even before the internet answers, and then refresh when it does.

It shows the saved copy first so it feels fast, then replaces it with fresh data. Pull down to refresh if a list looks old.

At login the app clears the chat and contacts copies saved on that phone and loads them again from your account. This keeps one person's data from showing up in another person's account on a shared phone. See Chapter 1, item 1.2.

All 20. Only opening a link from the QR scanner needs internet. Toolbox data stays on your phone (Chapter 22).

A saved trip opens without being built again, but its photos and map still load from the internet. See Chapter 20.

Clear old chats and media you no longer need, or clear the app's storage in your phone settings. Clearing the app's data signs you out and removes anything kept only on the phone, such as your khata and notes.

When you share a message, photo, gallery post or wall post out of KuhuChat to another app, the text ends with "Shared via KuhuChat" and the link https://kuhuchat.com. It helps people you share with find the app.

When you share from a chat, from the Samaj Gallery, from a wall post, and from the full-screen media viewer.

No. Results shared from a Toolbox tool, such as a bill or a quote, are shared as you made them, without the footer.

It is added automatically to what you share, but you can delete the last lines in the share box of the app you are sharing to before you send.

No. It has only the app name and our website, not your name, number or Samaj.

If you only want a break, log out (see 2.7). Logging out keeps everything, and you continue where you left off when you log in again with the same number. Delete your account only when you want your data removed. It cannot be undone.

No. Deleting is permanent. If you sign up again with the same number, you get a new, empty account. Nothing from the old account comes back.

Yes. Save what you want to keep before you delete: download photos and videos from the Gallery to your phone, and note down anything from your Diary. Your Diary threads, your own wall and your chats are deleted with the account.

Your admin seat is handed over to another member automatically. Your admin applications and votes are removed.

No. Deleting removes your account and data. The KuhuChat app stays installed until you uninstall it yourself.

Open the three-dot menu at the top right of the Samaj, Contacts, Social or Business tab. The red Delete Account button is at the bottom of the menu, above Logout.

Use the menu on the four main tabs. That is where the red button is.

Yes. Open app.kuhuchat.com/delete-account, log in with your mobile number and OTP, and follow the same steps.

Yes. Use the email option on the Delete account page of this website. We confirm it is you and delete the account within 30 days.

1. Open the three-dot menu and tap the red Delete Account button.
2. Read the warnings on the screen.
3. Decide whether to keep your posts, gallery photos and pins (see 24.4).
4. Type DELETE in the box. The red button stays off until the word matches.
5. Tap Permanently Delete Account.

So that nobody deletes an account by accident. Deleting cannot be undone.

A progress indicator on the Delete Account screen. Keep the app open until it finishes. A very large account can take a few minutes.

The app clears the chats and contacts saved on your phone, signs you out and takes you back to the login screen. It also switches off the extra home-screen icons (see 24.9).

By default they are deleted. If you tick the box "Keep my posts, gallery photos and pins for my Samaj", they stay for your Samaj and show as "Deleted user", with no name, photo or phone number.

Your gallery posts, your posts on other people's walls and your radar pins are deleted, with their photos, videos and voice notes.

Yes. Tap Review my pins on the delete screen. It opens My Pins, where you can delete some by hand first (see 8.10).

No. Kept posts and pins no longer belong to any account. You cannot edit or remove them afterwards, and a new account on the same number is not linked to them.

Yes. Gallery posts and wall posts still expire on their normal schedule (see 23.3). Radar pins do not expire.

No. Your own wall and your Diary threads are always deleted.

• Your profile, login, reminders, trips, Mitra data and contacts.
• Your family tree entries, matrimony profile, admin applications and votes.
• Your group memberships. A group is deleted when its last member leaves.
• The messages you sent in group and Samaj chats.
• Your private one-to-one chats, for both people.
• Your own wall and your Diary threads.
• Your gallery posts, your posts on other walls and your radar pins, unless you chose to keep them.
• Your business in Business Hub, and your follows of other businesses.
• Your group hotel requests.
• The photos, videos and voice notes behind all of the above.

Yes, last of all. If any step fails, your login stays so you can try again, and nothing is left half-finished.

Your own tree is deleted. Entries other people made about you in their trees are marked as removed, in the same way as when you remove a relation (see 5.4).

Your matrimony profile and the interests you sent and received are deleted (see 6.12).

They are deleted. People you shared them with are notified that the thread was deleted (see 18.6).

Your business profile and your follows are deleted. If your business was also listed in the nearby directory (Autofind), a listing may still show there for a while. Write to us from the Contact page if you want it checked.

Hotel booking and payment records, because the law and accounting rules require it. KuhuChat also keeps one small log entry with no personal details, only a scrambled ID and dates, to show that the deletion happened.

Not yet. Star ratings you gave to other businesses are not removed.

Copies in backups are removed as the backups expire. See the Privacy policy.

No. Photos or messages that other people saved, forwarded or screenshotted belong to them and are not removed.

Private one-to-one chats are deleted for both of you. The other person no longer sees the conversation.

Your number may be given to a new person one day. Deleting the chat for both of you makes sure the new owner can never open your old conversation.

The messages you sent in group and Samaj chats are deleted. You are removed from every group. A group is deleted when its last member leaves, and an admin role is passed on to another member.

Possibly. A contact name that someone saved in their own phone book is theirs. KuhuChat cannot change it.

It can stay in their chat list preview until they get a newer message.

There is no notice to your contacts. Your chats and your tile simply disappear for them.

Yes. Log in with the same number and OTP. You see the "What's your name?" screen, like any new user.

A brand new, empty account. There is no family tree, business, groups, chats, wall or Diary, and you must join your Samaj again.

No. They stay as "Deleted user" and are not linked to your new account.

The new owner sees none of your data. Everything KuhuChat keeps no longer points to your number or name.

KuhuTools, KuhuBiz Search and KuhuTrip are switched off at the end of the delete, after you are signed out. Some phones take a few seconds to remove an icon.

No. The main app icon stays until you uninstall the app.

Switch them on again from the three-dot menu, Home screen icons (see 2.10).

Yes. The chats and contacts saved on your phone, the outbox and your nearby-business alerts are cleared as part of deleting.

Your login is removed last, so nothing is lost if a step fails. Open the app, log in again if asked, and tap Permanently Delete Account again. If you see "already running", wait a few minutes and try once more.

A very large account can take several minutes. Keep the app open. If it seems stuck, close the app, open it again and tap delete again. It continues where it stopped.

Yes. After a successful delete the app always returns to the login screen. If you log in with the same number and see "What's your name?", the old account is gone.

The delete did not finish. Open Delete Account again and repeat the steps. If it keeps failing, write to us from the Contact page with the phone number on your account.

Kept posts show as "Deleted user". A business listing may stay in the nearby directory for a while (see 24.5). Contact us if anything else still shows your name or number.

You can delete parts yourself: your posts, pins, Diary threads, chats, reminders and trips, your matrimony profile (6.12) and your business (14.2). Deleting the account removes everything together.

In the Privacy policy, linked from the footer of this website, and in Chapter 23.

Use the Contact page on kuhuchat.com, or email hiren@kuhuchat.com.