This week Tinkoff Bank has released messenger MoneyTalk, which supports the function of transferring funds from card to card. The company calls the app “the first Russian financial messenger”. Guide Tinkoff Bank believes in the success of the application, and the company’s founder Oleg Tinkov has said that the app is for three days, have downloaded over a million people. Twitter users questioned his data.
On July 3, the service became available on the iOS platform, on Android since June 26. Using MoneyTalk you can send money to any contact from your address book. To send enough money to keep a card of any Russian Bank. Even if the person haven’t installed messenger, he will still receive the transfer. The recipient will receive a text message with a link to the page where he can pick up the money.
The idea of the messenger of translation, according to the representative of the company, owned by its founder Oleg Tinkoff. 8 July, he said in his microblog that the application MoneyTalk has been downloaded over a million times. “For the first 3 days I downloaded over a million. A breakthrough on the market! Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp shivering!”, – wrote the entrepreneur.
Subscribers businessman expressed concerns about the reliability of his data. Director of product service Dating Fotostrana” Ilya Chernetsky said that the number of application installations up to several thousand.
Chernetsky referred to the analytical system App Annie. According to her, at the time of this writing, the iOS app is in the area thousandth position in the overall ranking and 76 — in the category “Social networking”. According to Chernetsky, on the position of the application in the top you can define the number of downloads — for example, the application 70 location received about 150 downloads per day.
The number of installations of the app for Android can be evaluated according to the Google Play store — ratings system, MoneyTalk not downloaded more than 500 times. According to App Annie, a version for Android is on 143 line rating in the category “Social apps”.
As told Siliconrus in the press service of the Bank, they do not have accurate statistics of installations and recommended to rely on information Tinkov. Company representatives also told that they use to promote the application of various tools, including social networks.
