Google Datally app announced, lets you check, understand and save mobile data

Google on Thursday announces a new application called Datally. As the name suggests, this application basically helps smartphone users to check, understand, and save on their mobile data. Datally basically lets users track their data usage in real time. Not only that, the application also provides personalized recommendations on saving data like it notifies users about public Wi-Fi spots available nearby.
So, if you're struggling to save your phone's data, or if your data pack is getting over a lot before the validity date, Datally is the option for you. Datally is already available for download on the Google Play store -- and all Android phones running on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher operating systems. This new application by Google basically lets you have a check on your data usage, understand where you're spending most of your data, or which app is eating away the maximum chunk of your data pack and after which also provides your with ways to have a control over them.
Datally shows which apps on your device are eating up most of your mobile data. By providing ways to cut down the data usage, we mean -- Datally will suggest nearby Wi-Fi networks for you to connect to so that you can stop using your mobile data and connect to Wi-Fi instead.

Datally helps users in three ways, which are as follows:
-- Understand your data: The app allows you to see your usage on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis and provides you with personalized recommendations for how you can save your mobile data.
-- Control your data: Datally controls data usage by turning on the Data Saver bubble to block background data usage and track real-time data usage. It also allows users to block data with one tap in case an app's data usage gets out of control
-- Save your data: Datally provides users with the list of nearby public Wi-Fi spots, so that user can connect to the Wi-Fi and stop using mobile data.

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Datally is a part of Google's Next Billion Users initiative and mainly focuses on making Google products more usable in countries with limited mobile connections and where lower-end hardware remains widespread. The key idea to behind the conception of Datally comes in after a group of people at Google found people switching their phone to airplane mode just to save their data usage, says Josh Woodward, the product manager of Datally in a conversation with The Verge. He also notes that his team discovered that people would basically turn on to normal mode only to check notifications, and after which they would go back to airplane mode again. "A bunch of us on the team spent a lot of time on long flights observing people in their homes, bus stations, classrooms, and kept seeing this airplane mode behavior," exclaims Woodward.
Talking about Datally, Caesar Sengupta, Vice President, Next Billion Users, Google says via a blog post, "Mobile data is expensive for many people around the world. And what's worse, it's hard to figure out where it all goes. That's why we built Datally, an app that helps you to control, save more and do more with your data. We've been testing Datally in the Philippines for the past few months, and people are saving up to 30 percent on their data."
Google has reportedly been testing Datally app in the Philippines and the search giant says that the app has already hit over 500,000 users and claims that it has been able to save -- on average -- about 30 percent of the user's data.