Should we ask for Free Software app for UPI?
Pirate Praveen Sun 26 Jul 2020 11:46AMPublicSeen by 115@Dhanesh B. Sabane shared a news [1] about the need of platforms like UPI in our matrix group at #fsci:poddery.com in the context of foreign companies like Amazon controlling online trading platforms.
@Akshay shared this paper by Sunil Abraham on UPI and NPCI.
https://www.orfonline.org/research/unified-payment-interface/
We could possibly ask ICFOSS or Kerala Bank (both institutions under Kerala Government which has a policy to support Free Software) to launch a Free Software application for UPI. Though we should first evaluate if the concerns around monopoly an surveillance is important enough to not bother about UPI.
[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/digital-india-trai-amazon-6522105/
Abhijith PAMon 19 Sep 2022 1:37PM
That's a great news. !!
Life is TetrisWed 20 Dec 2023 1:19PM
It has been a while now since I dropped off the Telegram chat. Is the situation changed with the open-sourcing of UPI et al? https://dpi.global
Abhijith PAThu 21 Dec 2023 4:34AM
Hi.
If you read the history of this thread, you can understand there is an attempt going https://github.com/librefin-in
Not sure how it is progressing.
Life is TetrisFri 17 Oct 2025 11:27AM
Hasn't this become even more difficult now? It looks like even URI's like upi://pay?pa=9876543210@upi&am=101&cu=INR&tn=hundi have stopped working, probably along with the recent change to disallow money requests from UPI apps. I thought such unsigned URI's (not signed by PSP) used to work.
Pirate PraveenMon 25 May 2026 7:32PM
We have a Free Software upi app now https://codeberg.org/jiujiupay/jiujiupay It works on mobile gnu/linux. It is a simple one line shell code with *99# ussd interface behind the scenes. Works only on Airtel network. Anyone wants to take up the challenge to make it work on Android and iOS too?
AkshayTue 26 May 2026 5:33AM
@Pirate Praveen If I search "USSD UPI" on github, I find several results, at least one of which seems to have similar code: https://github.com/tomxposed/Offline-UPI
Pirate PraveenTue 26 May 2026 12:08PM
@Akshay Thanks, there is no license currently, so I asked if they can release it as Free Software https://github.com/tomxposed/Offline-UPI/issues/1
Nemo ·Sat 6 Aug 2022 7:28AM
I recently announced a community-initiative to get us to an open-source UPI app. It's called LibreFin, and you can check it out at https://github.com/librefin-in.
You can also join on Gitter/Matrix: https://gitter.im/librefin-in/community, or on Telegram: https://t.me/librefin
The GitHub page has some details around the planned roadmap, which I presented at the IndiaFOSS2.0 conference a few weeks ago. (Talk will be published in a while).
@Pirate Bady There's a roadmap in place for USSD based app as well.