Nokanda application on Monday, June 2 became the first Rwandan mobile application to receive #1 ranking on Google Play Store.

The mobile application aims at easing and shortening cashless transactions processes.

With Nokanda, users can send money, pay bills and access MTN and Airtel mobile money services without dialing or following prompts.

It creates shortcuts for USSD codes, which makes it quicker to send money to your phone contacts without typing numbers, buy and pay for services easily and quickly.

Usually, mobile money transactions involve dialing USSD codes and following prompts that can sometimes be long processes.

Apart from mobile money services, the application offers other useful codes and numbers such as emergency and police free tolls, health and hospital emergency numbers, to mention but a few. 

Nokanda was built by Hexakomb Limited, a software development company in 2019. At first, it was designed only for the company’s staff to ease internal mobile money transactions until it was uploaded on Google store for the public upon users' requests.

The application has been receiving good reviews on social media for how user friendly and efficient it is.

Since September 2019, it has gained over 5000 users and on June 2, it gained #1 ranking on Google Play Store.

Ernest Kayinamura, founder and CEO of Hexakomb told The New Times that the company works in partnership with Airtel and MTN to frequently update it and make it user friendly.

"We have been receiving a lot of feedback from users on Google Store and social media and we have been working on complaints and suggestions,” he said.

Currently, the application can only be accessed by Rwandan phone numbers. Kayinamura says there are plans to expand to other countries where MTN and Airtel operate.