These days using various social networking sites is the favorite pastime for people. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp are the various social networking sites used by them in their free time. These sites are not only a source of entertainment for people, but this is also a source of making money for them.
Instagram has gained tremendous popularity in the past few years and has attained a good name and fame out of the various sites. People from all over the world love o spend time visiting Instagram. With time, as the technology got advanced, Instagram lite has also been inaugurated. It has been a good source of entertainment for people as they can even add their stories ig from time to time on Instagram.
What is Instagram lite?
Instagram lite is just an alternate for Instagram that has been inaugurated with the advancement in technology. If we talk about Instagram lite, then it has gained tremendous popularity as it won’t take much space on the phone, and also, less data is used in downloading the Instagram lite.
In 2018 Instagram kite was inaugurated, but over time in the year 2020, it was pulled up by google play. As we all know, Instagram lite is smaller in size than the Instagram application, so they differ in functionality. However, most of people these days prefer to use Instagram lite than the original Instagram application because of its convenience.
About Instagram lite availability
As Instagram lite pulled up on the play store in the year 2020, since then, it has been in demand in 170 countries that are gaining name and fame after the invention of the internet connection. This has gained tremendous popularity in most parts of the world like us, the UK, and other parts of the country, but the highest number of users of Instagram lite is in India.
Currently, Instagram lite can only be downloaded on Android phones but not on operating system devices. Still, if the technology got advanced, then there are chances that Instagram lite will be used in the OS devices.
Difference between Instagram and Instagram lite?
The main motive of both the application is identical. They are both social networking sites that are a good source of entertainment and also a source of making money for the users. They have the option to upload stories ig as and when they wish to.
People from all over the world are using this application as per their interests. There is just a minor difference between the two about which we will discuss in detail:
- Application size
The main reason for the invention of Instagram lite is that when people were using Instagram, then at that time, they should have ample space to use the application most appropriately.
If we talk about Instagram, its size was 30-50 MB, which is a big size that requires a good internet connection to download it from the application. But, on the other hand, if we talk about the Instagram lite, then it is only of 2 MB that is easy for a user to take out in their android phone.
So it can be concluded that the size of the application plays the most crucial role, especially for the people who have less space on their phones.
- Features in the application
As we all know, Instagram lite is smaller in size than the base application, so it is quite evident that it lacks in certain features. When in the year 2018, when the Instagram lite was inaugurated at that time there were minor features that were included in it but with the passage of there were some features that were added in the Instagram lite.
Like people now can direct messages to the person or group chat with texts, images, GIF. But if we talk about the chat theme’s customization, this feature is still not available to people. Not only this, the people who are using Instagram lite have the problem that they cannot be live on their page.
- Language
Another most significant difference is that as Instagram lite was basically launched keeping in mind the problem that is faced by the Indians, so it includes all the local languages like Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil. On the other hand, the original application of Instagram only included Hindi as the language.
Sum up:
These are some of the differences that people between the two applications see. People can make the selection of the one that they think is as per their requirement as the main functions of both the applications are the same. Both the sites are known to provide the facility of the stories ig.
