3 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Mar 15, 2026 03:17 PM IST
IndianOil One, the vitality large’s LPG gasoline cylinder-booking app, has risen to the highest of Google Play Retailer and Apple App Retailer charts in India amid the continued conflict in West Asia.
In the previous few days, the app has overtaken OpenAI’s ChatGPT to assert the No 1 spot on each free app rankings as Indian shoppers reel from the availability chain shockwaves sparked by the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz — one of many world’s most important chokepoints for vitality provide. The app nonetheless held the highest spot on Sunday morning, March 15.
Google Play Retailer high charts. (Screenshot: Google Play Retailer)
Apple App Retailer high downloaded charts. (Screenshot: Apple App Retailer)
LPG distribution centres in Indian cities have witnessed limitless queues within the final week, with eating places and eateries throughout the nation shuttering or truncating their menu as cooking gasoline provides tighten and costs climb sharply.
There has additionally been an increase in situations of black advertising and hoarding of LPG cylinders, and Indian shoppers flocking to e-commerce platforms reminiscent of Amazon and Flipkart in quest of induction cooktops and different electrical alternate options.
Each LPG and PNG are used as cooking fuels. Whereas India has over 33.4 crore households with LPG connections, the variety of households with PNG connections is round 1.5 crore. Not like LPG, the place gasoline is available in a conveyable cylinder, PNG includes pipeline connectivity.
In line with information shared by Petroleum Ministry Joint Secretary Sujata Sharma, common LPG bookings by households averaged at 55.7 lakh cylinders within the April-February interval of the present monetary 12 months, however the quantity jumped over 35% to 75.7 lakh on Thursday, March 12.
What’s IndianOil One?
IndianOil One is a free-to-download app that can be utilized to ebook LPG cylinders, monitor cylinder deliveries, get a brand new LPG connection, change distributor, and extra. It will also be used to search out the closest petrol station or LPG distributor by its dynamic search function.
Story continues beneath this advert
IndianOil One app downloads in final 30 days. (Screenshot: Sensor Tower)
The app has seen over 4 million downloads within the final 30 days, as per the most recent information from app evaluation website SensorTower. For context, the determine is significantly greater than different IOCL-developed apps reminiscent of IndianOil PNG which has additionally seen greater than 100,000 downloads to this point on Google Play.
The panic reserving of home LPG cylinders has even precipitated some on-line reserving platforms to ‘crash’. In Punjab, as an illustration, a surge in bookings, almost 30 to 40 per cent greater than regular, precipitated an area on-line reserving system to cease functioning, stopping new bookings from being processed, The Indian Specific beforehand reported.