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Unlockar

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Development status
  
Active

Platform
  
Android

Operating system
  
Android

Size
  
2.1 MB

Original author(s)
  
Unlockar Apps Pvt. Ltd.

Initial release
  
Alpha Version: April 8, 2014 Beta Version: May 8, 2014 First Product Launch: November 20, 2014

Unlockar is a Mobile app start-up, headquartered in New Delhi, India. The application is a universal lock screen app that presents user-selected content on the lock screen. The app allows users to define content preference from multiple content providers for regular updates.

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History

The company began its operations in October 2013 as an app that serves user preferred content right on the lock screen. The company launched the first draft of its application in April 2014 and came out of the beta version in November 2014. As of December 2015, the app has had more than 100,000 Google Play installs.

Team

Piyush Paul, Gopal Yadav and Manish Garg are co-founder at Unlockar. Piyush Paul is a business graduate from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi University and an alumnus of FMS, Delhi. Gopal Yadav is an engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus and an alumnus of FMS, Delhi. Manish Garg is an engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus.

Awards and achievements

Unlockar has been received well by Indian audience and media, as can be seen with their more than 150 media mentions within 2 years of its launch. Unlockar is a part of BWAccelerate 2015 an initiative by Business World Group. The application has also won the award for Best App of the Year by Digital Empowerment Foundation as part of their initiative called mBillionth Award South Asia 2015. Unlockar is also a winner of Madlabs 2015, an initiative to identify most booming startups in India by the Mobile Marketing Association and MadHouse South Asia.

References

Unlockar Wikipedia