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Memorizer is a movie and book tracking app that also helps you find inspiration

There are quite a few apps that let you log the movies, TV shows and books that you have watched and read. Some of them are indie apps that take advantage of various online databases. Some of them, li

Retro is a deeply personal photo journaling app for close friends

BeReal experiences a multihour outage, refuses to explain

Gen Z’s favorite social app BeReal experienced a lengthy outage today, which the company only acknowledged with a brief — and fairly vague —  tweet, stating: “yup, we’re

Yubo is about to verify the age of all its users using facial age estimation

French startup Yubo is particularly popular with young people under 25 who want to meet new people, play games together and hang out together in video chat rooms. The company has managed to attract 60

TikTok-style dating app Desti filters matches by date destinations

A new video-focused dating app Desti just launched over the weekend to give users a chance to find potential matches based on a preferred date destination. Users who live in the app’s debut mark

Social maps app Zenly rolls out its own maps

Zenly, the popular social app with 35 million monthly active users, released a complete redesign just last month. But it turns out that this was just the first part of a bigger change at the company o

How Zenly made social maps cool again — and what’s next

Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns out Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until

How one founder’s startup journey began with dropping out of school to work with Drake

This week’s episode of Found features Courtne Smith, founder of NewNew, a social app where people pay to vote on your decisions. The platform takes the concept of social polling to the next leve

Houseparty expands beyond video chat with co-watching of live events

Houseparty, the video chat app that’s seen a surge of growth during quarantine, is preparing to expand its service in a new direction: co-watching live video with friends. The company on Friday

New Google Area 120 project Shoelace aims to connect people around shared interests

A new project from Google’s in-house incubator, Area 120, aims to help people find things to do and others who share your same interests. Through a new app called Shoelace — a name designe

Prisma co-founders raise $1M to build a social app called Capture

Two of the co-founders of the art filter app Prisma have left to build a new social app. Prisma, as you may recall, had a viral moment back in 2016 when selfie takers went crazy for the fine art spi

Instagram adds face filters to live video

Instagram is making its face filters available for live video streaming through the app, the company announced today. Instagram had introduced face filters, which add visual effects to detected faces,

Sound Familiar? Trace Launches A Social App That Lets You Share Your Purchases With Friends

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...to build another social network around users' recent shopping purchases. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.traceapp.com/">Trace</a> is the latest sta

Ex-Digg Engineers Launch “Well,” A Social List-Making App That Thinks Beyond The To-Do

<a target="_blank" href="http://well.io/">Well</a>, a new social and collaborative to-do list application from former Digg, Blip.fm and Rackspace engineers, is officially launching today on <a targe