mobile apps
A new app called Banish blocks those annoying ‘open in app’ banners
A new app for iPhone users can help you browse the web without being constantly bothered by pop-up panels that beg you to use the company’s app instead. The app, called Banish, is a Safari exten
Locket, the popular app that lets you post photos to your loved ones’ homescreens, raises $12.5M
Locket, a popular app for sharing photos straight to your family and friends’ home screens, has raised $12.5 million in funding. The app rose to the top of the App Store charts after launching on Ne
This Week in Apps: Elon wants out, TikTok’s content ratings, a new milestone for subscription revenue
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in th
US App Store revenue from non-game apps just topped games for the first time
A major shift in the U.S. app economy has just taken place. In the second quarter of this year, U.S. consumer spending in non-game mobile apps surpassed spending in mobile games for the first time in
Anonymous social app NGL tops 15M installs, $2.4M in revenue as users complain about being scammed
A popular anonymous social app called NGL has now topped 15 million global installs, according to new data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, released today. The app, which is now one of a handf
This Week in Apps: Google battles KakaoTalk, Twitter deal in jeopardy, FTC asked to investigate TikTok
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Cozy houseplants and self-care: How one startup is reimagining mobile gameplay as a healing activity
Mobile well-being apps topped 1.2 billion downloads last year, while leading meditation app Calm alone pulled in $118.2 million in revenue, data from Sensor Tower indicates. That may leave some to thi
This Week in Apps: Apple’s Sherlocks, Instagram’s ‘nudges’ and a TikTok-Oracle deal
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The next big social platform is the smartphone’s homescreen
BeReal, LiveIn, Locket… what do these new consumer social apps have in common besides a highly ranked position on the App Store’s Top Charts? They engage their users through a combination of push
This Week in Apps: Mobile gaming’s market share hit, web3 app growth, Niantic’s new AR tools
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Apple’s latest research suggests the iOS app economy supports 2.2 million US jobs
As app store legislation targeting tech giants Apple and Google moves forward in Congress, Apple today is out with two more new reports meant to demonstrate how successful the app economy has been und
Bumble is planning to expand further into social networking with a new communities feature
Dating platform Bumble is looking to enhance its non-dating social features with a further investment into its Bumble BFF feature, first launched in 2016. This friend-finding feature currently uses th
This Week in Apps: Snapchat policy checkup, more Twitter deal drama, TikTok games
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TikTok is gearing up for games, including interactive minigames for TikTok LIVE
TikTok is already one of the world’s fastest-growing social media platforms, where it’s even overtaken YouTube on watch time in select markets and sports over 1 billion monthly active user
Hinge’s latest feature aims to help users spark conversations about self-care
Dating app Hinge is introducing a new “Self-Care Prompts” feature that is designed to inspire initial conversations between matches about self-care priorities. Hinge’s in-app prompts
This Week in Apps: Fortnite’s back on iOS, TikTok’s new ad product, apps hit NewFronts
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This Week in Apps: Elon buys Twitter, Snap Summit recap and an App Store cleanup
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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations
A new startup called Skich wants to help mobile users find games to play that better match their interests. To do so, it’s created a game recommendation app that carefully toes the line in order
After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A
When Glide came out of Y Combinator in 2019, it was looking to help people with absolutely no coding ability to build a simple, but functional mobile app from data in a spreadsheet. While it still doe
This Week in Apps: Elon bids for Twitter, WhatsApp adds Communities, Spotify goes ‘Live’
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