Zoho Product Timeline: History of Zoho's SaaS Suite (2005-2023)

Zoho Product Timeline: Key Launch Dates and Milestones

Zoho Corporation has spent two decades building one of the world's most complete SaaS ecosystems, expanding from a single online word processor into a suite of more than 55 integrated business applications. This article sets out the key launch milestones in that journey, corrected and cross-checked against Zoho's own historical announcements and contemporary press coverage.

Zoho product launch timeline

Product(s) Launch date
Zoho WriterSeptember 2005
Zoho PlannerOctober 2005
Zoho CRMFebruary 2006
Zoho CreatorMarch 2006
Zoho SheetApril 2006
Zoho ShowJune 2006
Zoho ProjectsAugust 2006
Zoho MeetingMarch 2007
Zoho Docs4 September 2008
Zoho InvoiceMarch 2008
Zoho PeopleMarch 2008
Zoho MailOctober 2008
Zoho Reports (now Zoho Analytics)2009 (month unconfirmed)
Zoho RecruitNovember 2009
Zoho Support (later renamed Zoho Desk)November 2010
Zoho Books2011 (month unconfirmed)
Zoho Campaigns and Zoho Sites2012 (exact month unconfirmed; some sources place Zoho Sites in 2011)
Zoho Connect, Zoho Survey and Zoho Vault2013 (month unconfirmed)
Zoho SocialFebruary 2015
Zoho Expense2015 (month unconfirmed)
Zoho One24 July 2017
ArattaiJanuary 2021 (soft launch; day unconfirmed)
Ulaa Browser4 May 2023

Key milestones in more detail

Zoho CRM: the flagship product

Zoho CRM went live in February 2006 as a SaaS customer relationship management platform. It went on to become the anchor product of the entire Zoho ecosystem and remains the most widely adopted Zoho application among UK and Ireland businesses today.

Zoho One: the operating system for business

Zoho One launched on 24 July 2017, bundling more than 35 integrated applications under a single subscription with one login. Zoho's founder, Sridhar Vembu, has said the release date was brought forward from a planned September 2017 launch due to early demand. Zoho One has since grown to serve tens of thousands of customers worldwide, with more than 50 applications now included in the suite.

Arattai and Ulaa: Zoho's consumer apps

Arattai, Zoho's instant messaging app, had a quiet soft launch in January 2021 before seeing a sharp rise in downloads in 2025. Ulaa, Zoho's privacy-focused Chromium-based browser, followed on 4 May 2023, offering built-in tracker blocking as an alternative to mainstream browsers.

Note on accuracy: Dates above have been cross-checked against Zoho's own blog and press archive, and independent press coverage, wherever a primary source could be found. Where only the month or year is confirmed, the exact day has been left out rather than guessed. A small number of entries (Zoho Reports, Zoho Books, Zoho Campaigns, Zoho Sites, Zoho Connect, Zoho Survey, Zoho Vault, and Zoho Expense) are based on secondary sources only, as no official Zoho announcement date could be located for them.
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