Saavn releases enhanced music streaming app for Android

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Saavn, the Indian music streaming service, announced its revamped Android application, Saavn Music for Android (version 3.0).

The new Saavn app brings music front and center, with access to songs in 11 languages and direct entry to Saavn Radio. The update also includes full-screen album art in the Saavn player.

Developed in collaboration with Google's Android teams, the new Saavn app for Android will provide full Android tablet support. Anurag Gupta, CTO and Co-founder of Saavn, said: "India is an Android-driven market, and 70% of Saavn's listeners in India are on Android. We're excited to deliver the best possible user experience to the majority of our listener base with this new app. It's been carefully crafted to optimize the multiple screen experience, and to work seamlessly across a wide range of Android versions and hardware configurations."

Saavn previously released its 3.0 app for iOS, garnering a good response. The new iOS app increased Saavn's daily streams on iOS by 20%, increased radio streams by 7.5x, increased regional language streams by 15% to 50% per language, and increased Saavn's overall daily unique users by 10%.

Saavn's comprehensive music catalog includes over 1 million Indic tracks for its streaming search-and-play and radio services (including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, English, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, and Bhojpuri content). Saavn delivers a seamless, on-the-go listening experience to music fans everywhere, across web and mobile. Saavn's latest innovation is ad-free, offline play on Saavn Pro.