In 2002, The Hindu dubbed Azhagi as a tool that "stand[s] out" among various similar software "emerg[ing] nearly every other day".
[4] In the same year Azhagi was identified as a "success story" by Microsoft's Bhashaindia.com Indic language computing site.
[9][10] B. Vishwanathan, a software professional, developed Azhagi after he quit from Tata Consultancy Services due to illness.
[11] Lot of websites, software, documents which uses the Tamil font make use of the Azhagi and it has support from the user and they are displaying their thanks giving note on their blogs and web pages.
[12] In addition to the transliteration tool, Azhagi also provides links to hundreds of free Tamil fonts in Unicode,[13] TSCII,[14] TAB and TAM format.