A Solar Family Bets Roamiyo Hits One Million Downloads

Emmvee Group has put the Roamiyo travel app on public stores and wants more than one million downloads in year one. The product sits in Emmvee Technologies Private Limited, a private Bengaluru company the Donthi family formed in January 2025, not in the listed solar factory.

The group’s August 19, 2026 note also set a nearer mark of 600,000 downloads in the first three months. Google Play, last updated on September 11, 2026, still shows a 50,000-plus install bucket, and the iPhone listing has nine public ratings.

Sidecar Software From a Solar Family

Emmvee started in 1992 under D.V. Manjunatha and grew into a solar-cell and module maker in Bengaluru. Emmvee Photovoltaic Power Limited listed on the BSE and NSE on November 18, 2025. For the year to March 2026 it reported revenue of ₹5,050 crore (US$520 million) and profit of ₹1,082 crore.

The solar company, as of March 31, 2026, ran 10.3 GW of module capacity and 2.94 GW of cell capacity. Suhas Donthi Manjunatha is president and chief executive of that business. His brother, Sumanth Manjunatha Donthi, is a director of the tech company that publishes Roamiyo and a promoter of the solar vehicle.

MCA records show Emmvee Technologies Private Limited was incorporated on January 20, 2025, with CIN U79110KA2025PTC197005. Authorized capital is ₹1 crore. Paid-up capital is ₹10 lakh. Both brothers sit on that board. The registered office is Solar Tower, Lakshmaiah Block, Ganganagar, the same campus address the Android listing uses for support.

PARENT VERSUS THE APP COMPANY

• The solar line: Listed in November 2025, with ₹5,050 crore of FY2026 revenue and 10.3 GW of modules.
• The app issuer: An unlisted company formed on January 20, 2025, with ₹10 lakh of paid-up capital.
• The public target: 600,000 downloads in three months and more than one million in the first year.
• The store read: 50,000-plus Android downloads as of the September 11, 2026 Play update.

That gap is the wager. The family already knows how to raise factory capital. Roamiyo has to raise habitual users, then paying ones, in a category where the home-screen winners sell tickets, not day plans.

What the App Does Beyond Day-by-Day Plans

Roamiyo is a free download that the company said will run on a subscription after a 30-day trial. Neither public store listing posts a rupee or dollar price. The August 19 note framed three modes that cover planning, group logistics, and the days after you leave home. The store copy goes further and sells flight, hotel, and activity booking inside the same app.

THREE MODES PLUS BOOKING

• Personalised Itinerary Planning: Users enter destination, dates, budget, party size, and trip type, then edit or regenerate a day-by-day plan of sights, food, transport, and travel times.
• Group Mode: Families, friends, and colleagues get a shared itinerary, chat, polls, live location, expense splitting, document storage, task lists, and maps.
• Trip Mode: On the road, users can rearrange stops, add places, and pull navigation, currency conversion, translation, weather, nearby picks, and booking details.
• In-app booking: iOS release notes from 2026 already cover flight search, GST on tickets, seat selection, e-tickets, cancellation workflows, and hotel stays, plus an AI voice assistant for destination discovery.

Version 1.0.3 on March 24, 2026, already talked about trip tools and flight work, which means the August 19 “launch” was a marketing date for software that had been shipping for months. Version 1.0.18 on July 27, 2026, added stays booking. Later builds added flight tracking, referral links, a Trip Mode widget, and group invites from an itinerary. The App Store now lists version 1.0.28, a 145.8 MB binary that needs iOS 16, English only, age-rated 13+.

The Android page, under EMMVEE TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED, repeats the discover-plan-book pitch and names Auth0 for Google, Facebook, Apple, or email login. It also says the app may share personal and financial information with third parties, and the iPhone listing warns that location can run when the app is closed. Support sits at support@emmveetechnologies.in, with a Bengaluru number on the Play page.

Google Play’s 50,000-Plus Download Bucket

The download targets are public. The live store math is public too, and they are not the same number. Google’s consumer listing now shows 50,000-plus downloads on Google Play, with a last update of September 11, 2026, and no star rating on that page. Apple’s India listing shows a 4.9 score from nine ratings on the App Store and Travel chart position No. 173.

STORE COUNTS VERSUS THE STATED TARGETS

If the Android bucket is read at its 50,000 floor, the 600,000 three-month target is 12 times that floor. The three-month window the company started on August 19, 2026, runs 92 days, to November 19, 2026. Nine iPhone ratings are not a download count, but they are the only public iOS review sample, and they are thin.

WHAT WE KNOW

• Issuer: Roamiyo is published by Emmvee Technologies Private Limited, with the Donthi brothers on the board.
• Stores: The app is live on iOS and Android, and Play shows 50,000-plus downloads.
• Trial: New users get a 30-day free trial before the paid subscription the company described.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• Uninstall rate: The 0% figure is the company’s account of a private beta, not a public store metric.
• Price: No rupee or dollar subscription fee appears on the App Store or Play listings.
• Exact installs: 50,000-plus is a Google bucket, not a precise headcount, and iOS downloads are not disclosed.

A 50,000-plus Android read a few weeks after a launch note is not a failure by itself. It is also not 600,000. The next test is whether those installs survive the trial and whether iOS, still sitting on nine ratings, starts to move with them.

MakeMyTrip Still Owns the Indian Home Screen

The pitch is that travellers bounce across maps, chat, split-bills, translation, and booking apps, and that one companion should hold those pieces. That problem is real. The Indian phone already has answers for the part that takes money, and those answers are huge.

MakeMyTrip’s Android listing is in the 100 million-plus download bucket. Goibibo sits in the same 100 million-plus class. The apps people open to buy a flight or a hotel room do not need a new brand to explain themselves. Roamiyo has to win a slot beside them, or inside the messy week before a trip, where Wanderlog and TripIt already live.

HOW THE INCUMBENTS SIT

TripIt Pro is a known $49 habit for people who already hold tickets. Wanderlog Pro is a known $39.99 habit for people who build the days themselves. Roamiyo is trying to sell both jobs, plus a checkout flow with GST and seats, without a posted price on the store cards. The GST and seat work is a tell: this is an India booking stack wearing a planner’s language, not a Western itinerary toy with rupee stickers added later.

There is almost no public argument about the app on X. The only line that circulated before the August 19 note was a promo film with the obvious slogan, stop jumping app to app. That is the product’s whole case. It still has to beat WhatsApp groups, Google Maps lists, and a MakeMyTrip booking already sitting in the same pocket.

The 2,000-User Beta and a Zero Uninstall Claim

The company said a private beta of more than 2,000 users recorded a 0% uninstall rate. In a gated test, that number is easy to protect. Testers are invited. They know the team. They may never have treated the icon as one more travel download they can throw away after a weekend.

Public stores do not give the same courtesy. Android’s 50,000-plus bucket is the first open sample, and that page still has no star rating attached. iOS has a 4.9 average, but the sample is nine ratings. A high score on nine reviews is a compliment from a small room, not a market.

The company’s own next priorities, as stated in the launch note, are adoption, product work, and a base of recurring users. Recurring is the word that matters. A download during a 30-day trial is a lead. A second trip planned in the same login is the business, and that figure has not been published.

Sumanth Donthi’s Own Trip-Planning Frustration

Sumanth Donthi, director at Emmvee Technologies Private Limited, put the origin story on himself. He said he was tired of hopping across apps to plan and run a trip, and that the company wanted those scattered steps in one place.

Our vision is simple: to create a travel companion that helps people plan with confidence, stay connected and adapt easily as their journey unfolds.

Sumanth Donthi, Director, Emmvee Technologies Private Limited

That sentence is the product. Confidence is the itinerary. Connected is Group Mode. Adapt is Trip Mode. The store listings add a harder clause he did not stress in the launch note: search and book flights, hotels, and activities in the same login. If booking conversion works, Roamiyo is a distribution play. If it does not, the app is another paid planner asking travellers to keep a second icon next to the one they already use to pay.

Sumanth is also a promoter of the listed solar company, which means the app is a family project with factory-scale backing behind a small balance sheet. Suhas runs the gigawatt line. Sumanth is the brother putting a consumer brand on the same Solar Tower letterhead.

Paid-Up Capital Stops at 10 Lakh Rupees

₹10 lakh of paid-up capital is not the ceiling on what the family can spend. It is the legal size of the vehicle that owns the listings. The solar parent’s FY2026 profit of ₹1,082 crore could fund a consumer app many times over without showing up as a line item anyone would notice in a gigawatt expansion plan. The bet is not whether the Donthis can keep the lights on. It is whether a new travel brand, with nine iPhone ratings and a 50,000-plus Android bucket, can become a habit before the 30-day trial trains people to leave.

THE DATES BEHIND THE LAUNCH NOTE

1. January 20, 2025: Emmvee Technologies Private Limited is incorporated in Bengaluru with ₹10 lakh paid-up capital.
2. March 24, 2026: iOS version 1.0.3 is already shipping trip and flight tools.
3. July 27, 2026: Version 1.0.18 adds stays booking inside the app.
4. August 19, 2026: The group announces the public launch, the 600,000 three-month target, and the first-year mark of more than one million downloads.
5. September 11, 2026: Google Play shows a 50,000-plus download bucket on an updated listing.

The three-month clock that started on August 19, 2026, runs to November 19, 2026. Clearing 600,000 downloads by then means the 50,000-plus Android floor has to move by 12 times, while iOS is still on nine public ratings. The 30-day trial is the first clean test of whether anyone keeps Roamiyo after the itinerary is used.