Video entertainment for Indians
Apart from being a short-video platform, Zili is a free entertainment application wherein you can find your best source of fun, inspiring, insightful, and thought-provoking video content. The app bears similarities with TikTok and Triller. This is specifically designed for Indian users, so expect that most of the short videos here cater to Indian humor.
However, Zili contains ads that can appear as you navigate the app. To share the joy with your friends, you'll be able to send entertaining videos to WhatsApp and Facebook. Unfortunately, it's going to shut down on March 13, 2023.
Is Zili a Chinese app?
Zili is a Chinese-owned application developed by Xiaomi. It has dominated the mobile entertainment industry in India, even replacing TikTok—which is banned in the country since 2020. Despite the Indian government's nationwide boycott of various Chinese apps, this short video platform is fortunately not part of the list. Every trending video that is floating around the internet can be seen here.
This can be funny sketches, bits from movies, talents from around the world, cool dances, and fresh music videos. Whatever your interest is, you will surely find content that you can enjoy within this platform. Of course, as it is designed heavily for Indian netizens' entertainment, most of the videos are made for their humor. Anyone can become an influencer and upload their own video content.
You need to be funny and creative when creating content, so you can gain large followings and be one of the most famous influencers. To promote the videos you created to a bigger audience, you can share them on WhatsApp and Facebook. Everything here is nice except that it is quite hard to add music. Most of the time—when searching for a song—a No sorting and No search notice will appear.
Is Zili shutting down?
Zili is closing down on March 13 at 11:59 pm (IST), according to its official announcement. The decision was made as a result of an operational adjustment. Hence—starting today—you won’t be able to upload or view content or visit a creator’s profile. While its services will be disabled, you can download your content and withdraw or exchange your Z-Points on or before the app ceases its operations. After the shutdown, you won’t be able to retrieve your user data as all data will be removed from the server.
Best Tiktok alternative
As TikTok is banned in India, many of their netizens are looking for an alternative that can provide the same entertainment or even exceed it. Zili is one of the greatest options that fits it the most. Sadly, it will cease operations on March 13, 2023—which means you won't be able to create content or view a creator's profile. However, you can still save your content and redeem or exchange Z-Points.
