The Inner Circle Nepal news app is now available on Google Play for Android. The listing appears as “Innercircle Nepal”. It is a phone app for reading ICN’s reporting in a scroll feed, and for using Chautari, ICN’s live audio rooms.
Inner Circle Nepal is a diaspora-first independent newsroom, founded in 2025 and based in Albany, California. It reports Nepal for people who follow it from another time zone, and reports the countries they live in back to them. Readers who already use icn.news, or who find ICN on social media, can now open the same newsroom on an Android phone. ICN’s Instagram account records about 2 million monthly views, by the newsroom’s own figures. Those are views, not a count of unique readers.
What you can do in the app
The feed is a scroll of ICN stories. Desks in the app include Nepal, diaspora, immigration, and the NEPSE and forex newsroom. You can read in English or Nepali. Edition, language and other preferences sit in the app’s settings, so you can switch them there rather than keeping more than one copy of the newsroom.
The aim is practical: the same kind of reporting ICN already publishes on the site — politics and policy from Nepal, immigration and labour rules in the countries Nepalis work and study in, and market news — in a format meant for a phone.
Chautari
Chautari is ICN’s live audio rooms, inside the app. You can open a room on a topic, go live, and talk in English or Nepali.
The app itself says host earnings on Chautari are “opening soon.” That is all this story can confirm. It does not name an amount, a start date, or a promise of income.
How to get the app
The app is on Google Play for Android only, for now. An iOS version has not been announced.
To install it, open Google Play and search for Innercircle, or use this link: Get the ICN app on Google Play. The official package name on the listing is news.icn.mobile, which is a way to confirm you have the ICN app and not another listing with a similar name.
If you want company around a story, or a room to talk in English or Nepali, Chautari is in the app. The reporting also remains on icn.news. Tips and correction requests for the newsroom still go to newsroom@icn.news.
