🇮🇳Worst Productivity Apps in India

The most complained-about productivity apps in India on App Store and Google Play, ranked by total negative reviews (1-2 stars) from real users. Updated weekly.

#AppRatingNegative Reviews
1Voter Helpline
Voter HelplineECI
2.4474
2Census 2027- Houselist
Census 2027- HouselistOffice of The Registrar General, India
3.1362
3Census 2027-Houselist Training
Census 2027-Houselist TrainingOffice of The Registrar General, India
3.5336
4Mera Ration App
Mera Ration AppNational Informatics Centre.
3.9313
5NextGen mParivahan
NextGen mParivahanNational Informatics Centre.
3.3312
6Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft OneDriveMicrosoft Corporation
4.7291
7MyHonda-India
MyHonda-IndiaHonda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd.
3.8245
8Adobe Acrobat Reader: Edit PDF
Adobe Acrobat Reader: Edit PDFAdobe
4.5228
9Perplexity - AI Search & Chat
Perplexity - AI Search & ChatPerplexity AI, Inc.
4.7201
10Grok - Smartest AI Advisor
Grok - Smartest AI AdvisorxAI
4.5194
11Aadhaar
AadhaarUnique Identification Authority of India
3.5191
12AI Chat - Ask your AI Chatbot
AI Chat - Ask your AI ChatbotSyphnosys Apps
4.0186
13DigiLocker
DigiLockerNational eGovernance Division, Government of India
3.9180
14PocketPal AI
PocketPal AILLM Ventures
3.6179
15Microsoft Word: Edit Documents
Microsoft Word: Edit DocumentsMicrosoft Corporation
4.8171
16Send Anywhere - File Transfer
Send Anywhere - File TransferRakuten Symphony Korea, Inc.
4.6166
17MiraClean - File Manager
MiraClean - File ManagerNOVAGE DEV
3.8166
18MyJio: For Everything Jio
MyJio: For Everything JioJio Platforms Limited
4.4155
19Attendance Register Staff App
Attendance Register Staff Apputility labs
4.1153
20WPS Office-PDF, Word, Sheet
WPS Office-PDF, Word, SheetWPS SOFTWARE PTE. LTD.
4.5152
21Gallery
GalleryMOTO Gallery
3.9140
22AadhaarFaceRD
AadhaarFaceRDUnique Identification Authority of India
3.7133
23Claude by Anthropic
Claude by AnthropicAnthropic PBC
4.5133
24Maya AI: Everything by Voice
Maya AI: Everything by VoiceMaya Research
4.2132
25ECINET
ECINETElection Commission of India
4.3129
26ShareKaro Lite: File Share App
ShareKaro Lite: File Share AppShareKaro Team
4.2126
27Perplexity - Ask Anything
Perplexity - Ask AnythingPerplexityAI
4.1122
28AIScanner:Document to PDF, OCR
AIScanner:Document to PDF, OCRCamSoft AI Magic
4.3121
29PDF Reader – PDF Viewer
PDF Reader – PDF ViewerEZTech Apps
4.1120
30Vi: Recharge, Payments & Games
Vi: Recharge, Payments & GamesVodafone Idea Ltd.
4.7120
31Google Gemini
Google GeminiGoogle LLC
4.698
32Meta AI - Assistant & Glasses
Meta AI - Assistant & GlassesMeta Platforms, Inc.
4.597
33Link to Windows
Link to WindowsMicrosoft Corporation
4.391
34Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets
Microsoft Excel: SpreadsheetsMicrosoft Corporation
4.691
35Castle HD Movies
Castle HD MoviesTecolote Medicinals LLC
3.684
36Meta AI – Assistant & glasses
Meta AI – Assistant & glassesMeta Platforms, Inc.
4.582
37PDF Reader - Read PDF Files
PDF Reader - Read PDF FilesQR Code Scanner.
4.376
38Document Scanner - PDF Creator
Document Scanner - PDF CreatorLUFICK TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED
4.872
39Open Chat - AI bot app
Open Chat - AI bot appAceTools Team
4.568
40mySSC
mySSCStaff Selection Commission
4.565
41UMANG
UMANGMeitY, Government Of India
4.864
42ChatGPT
ChatGPTOpenAI
4.756
43App Lock - AppLock Fingerprint
App Lock - AppLock FingerprintTrusted Tools
4.736
44SuperVPN Pro
SuperVPN ProSuperSoftTech
4.633
45OKEN - CamScanner, PDF scanner
OKEN - CamScanner, PDF scannerCAMBYTE Pte. Ltd.
4.725
46Desh Hindi Keyboard
Desh Hindi KeyboardDesh Keyboard
4.819
47PDF Reader & PDF Editor
PDF Reader & PDF EditorSolaraSoft
4.618
48Image to PDF - PDF Maker
Image to PDF - PDF MakerSimple Design Ltd.
4.815
49Photo Video maker with music
Photo Video maker with musicDzine Media Apps
4.110
50ShieldMe - App Lock Manager
ShieldMe - App Lock ManagerMinsapCorp
3.87

Why Productivity Apps Fail in India

Productivity apps that earn the most complaints in India usually share the same failure patterns: missing local payment methods, broken integrations with country-specific services, slow servers, missing language support, or feature parity gaps with the global version. Reviews concentrate around the moment a productivity feature works in the US or UK but breaks in India.

This page ranks productivity apps in India by total number of negative reviews (1-2 stars). Whether you are researching competitors before launching a productivity app in India, benchmarking your own app against local pain points, or just curious which productivity apps users in India complain about most: this data shows you what is actually happening on the ground, not what marketing pages claim.