About this app

Chickku app is a special platform that effectively uses location based technology to bring people together. With Chickku app, you can find like-minded people in your area, join a local issue, discover new places of interests, rate, review and recommend businesses and other hangouts, and even buy or sell things locally; all for FREE!

Chickku app is also a FREE App for local businesses to offer "instant" deals and promotions to local customers and attract more business.

The app helps users in the following ways:

1. Make new friends nearby: The app helps users to find people with similar interests and hobbies living in their vicinity. Like-minded people can communicate through instant messaging in the app, make introductions and meet to discuss and follow their mutual interests.

2. Social profile: Users can create a dedicated wall page to showcase themselves so that people in their vicinity can get to know them and connect with them.

3. Interest Based Matching: Chickku automatically matches you with people around you based on your interests that you set in your Profile and Preferences sections. Finding people and things that interests you is now straightforward and easy!

4. Local Causes: Every community faces some challenges and fights together to alleviate pain points. With Chickku app, users can find social causes in their area and participate in making their community a better place to live.

5. Local promotions: Users can find local promotions, sale, discounts on their favorite products sold by the shops in their locality. Tuning into the Chickku app helps people save money by finding instant local deals.

6. Local events: The app helps users find local gigs and events. From their favorite band playing in a club to a flash sale to cultural events, users can choose to get notifications of all the events happening in their area.

7. Ratings & Recommendations: Users can find ratings and reviews by the neighborhood on local restaurants, shops, and even service providers. The recommendations and reviews help users make educated buying decisions.

8. Buy/Sell locally: The free Chickku platform helps sellers showcase their products & services, and pricing & deals, online. Buyers, on the other hand, can find products they are looking for and can look up their prices before making a purchase decision.

9. Instant Private Messaging: Users as well as local businesses can communicate with each other easily with Instant Private Messaging feature provided inside the App. Connecting locally has never been easier.

10. Local Business Connection: Local businesses can connect with local customers easily by offering instant, spur-of-the-moment deals and promotions to attract local customers. No contracts to sign!

New features

* Improved user experience for creating posts for promoting your business.
* Hashtags are now required to create a post in the App.
* At least one picture is now required for Buy/Sell, Events and Promotions.
* Reuse Uploaded Images for Creating New Posts making it easier.
* Fixed issue with Keyboard on iOS devices.
* Minor Bug Fixes.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read from external storage.