MapmyIndia, a homegrown digital navigation and mapping platform identified globally as Mappls, has launched a brand new function on its app that goals to let customers plan their commute extra simply utilizing India’s public transport techniques.
Mappls app customers will now have the ability to view metro, rail, and bus transport routes, straight on the app, together with data equivalent to stations, stops, and interchange choices, the Delhi-based firm stated in a press launch on Tuesday, December 30.
These choices are designed to assist customers plan extra environment friendly and sustainable journeys on Indian public transport by way of the Mappls app, which presently has greater than 40 million (4 crore) customers, as per the agency. Nevertheless, the brand new function is presently accessible for iOS and internet app customers in choose Indian cities, together with Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Indore, Patna, Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Jaipur, Kochi, and Bhopal.
It additionally plans to roll out the function to Android customers and increase to extra cities.
Positioned as a native various to Google Maps, MapmyIndia together with different homegrown apps equivalent to Zoho’s Arattai and Zoho Mail, noticed a sudden surge in reputation amongst Indian customers in October 2025, amid the central authorities’s renewed marketing campaign to spice up adoption of ‘Swadeshi’ or Made-in-India digital services and products.
“The launch of multimodal public transport routes on the Mappls App is a direct final result of listening to our customers. We wish the Mappls App to be extra inclusive and accessible for each citizen. We’re happy to start rolling out this function throughout choose cities and can proceed increasing protection to make public transport extra handy for thousands and thousands of Indians,” Rakesh Verma, Co-Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, MapmyIndia Mappls, stated.
Throughout the winter session of Parliament this month, the Ministry of Electronics and Info Expertise (MeitY) knowledgeable the Lok Sabha that it has migrated round 12.68 lakh official e mail accounts of assorted ministries and departments to Zoho Mail.
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MapmyIndia, however, has additionally partnered with the federal government on a couple of event. Its geospatial know-how, for example, is the muse of the IT Ministry’s UMANG app, developed for residents to simply discover authorities services nearest to their location, equivalent to mandis and blood banks. The corporate has claimed that its mapping platform is best served for the federal government as it’s extra cautious about “points just like the delineation of the worldwide border, not figuring out delicate institutions of nationwide significance.”
Authorities enterprise has grown exponentially over the previous few years and presently contributes 20 per cent to the corporate’s gross income, MapmyIndia added. In addition to the brand new public transport function, present capabilities on the Mappls app embrace turn-by-turn navigation, real-time site visitors updates, security alerts, and clever routing.
In November 2025, MapmyIndia introduced a strategic partnership with Zoho Corp to make the previous’s address-capturing and lead-discovery instruments straight accessible throughout the Chennai-based enterprise main’s buyer relationship administration (CRM) software program.