I'm not sure so many Iranians have $1000 iphones to use hipster bitchat; cheaper android clients are more the norm.
While bitchat was originally iOS only during release, they released the Android version shortly after https://bitchat.free/ (scroll down)
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While bitchat was originally iOS only during release, they released the Android version shortly after https://bitchat.free/ (scroll down)