Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store \u2014 provided you live in the U.S.<\/p>\n
The voice-based social network launched its beta Android app<\/a> on Play Store for users in the U.S. on Sunday, and said it will gradually make the new app available in other English-speaking countries and then the rest of the world.<\/p>\n The social network, valued at about $4 billion<\/a> in its most recent fundraise, launched as an iPhone-only app last year.\u00a0The app quickly gained popularity last year, attracting several high-profile celebrities, politicians, investors, and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n Clubhouse began developing the Android app<\/a> early this year and started to test the beta version<\/a> externally this month. In a town hall earlier Sunday, the startup said availability on Android has been the most requested product feature.<\/p>\n \u201cOur plan over the next few weeks is to collect feedback from the community, fix any issues we see and work to add a few final features like payments and club creation before rolling it out more broadly,\u201d the team wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Clubhouse download figures across some of its popular markets, according to estimates by mobile insight firm AppMagic. (Though Clubhouse\u2019s precise download figures from other mobile insight firms vary, they all agree that Clubhouse app\u2019s popularity has dropped in recent months.)<\/p>\n As Clubhouse struggles to maintain its growth \u2014 data from mobile insight firms including AppMagic<\/a> suggests that Clubhouse installs have drastically dropped in recent months \u2014 the Android app could prove pivotal in boosting the startup\u2019s reach across the globe.<\/p>\n Clubhouse could potentially \u2014 on paper \u2014 also supercharge its growth by allowing any user to join the service without an invitation. But the startup said retaining the waitlist and invite system is part of its effort to \u201ckeep the growth measured.\u201d (Clubhouse has faced several moderation challenges in recent months.)<\/p>\n Clubhouse\u2019s launch on Android comes at a time when scores of technology giants including Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Discord<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Reddit<\/a>, and Microsoft\u2019s LinkedIn<\/a>, have either launched their similar offerings \u2014 or announced plans to do so.<\/p>\n Twitter\u2019s clone of Clubhouse, called Spaces, has emerged as one of the biggest competitors to the A16z and Tiger Global-backed-startup. An unplanned Twitter Spaces, available on Android as well, hosted by a high-profile Indian startup founder on earlier Sunday attracted hundreds of listeners within a few minutes, for instance.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we head into the summer and continue to scale out the backend, we plan to begin opening up even further, welcoming millions more people in from the iOS waitlist, expanding language support, and adding more accessibility features, so that people worldwide can experience Clubhouse in a way that feels native to them,\u201d Clubhouse team wrote.<\/p>\n Clubhouse\u2019s beta Android app currently lacks a number of features such as the ability to follow a topic, in-app translations, localization, ability to create or manage a club, link Twitter and Instagram profiles, payments, as well as the ability to change the profile name or user name.<\/p>\n \u201cWith Android, we believe that Clubhouse will feel more complete,\u201d read the blog post.<\/p>\n Article source: http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunch\/social\/~3\/K3kHqxC1sUM\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store \u2014 provided you live in the U.S. The voice-based social network launched its beta Android app <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,7,14,15,6,12,11],"class_list":["post-24239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-update","tag-computer-news","tag-downloads","tag-microsoft-download-news","tag-networking-updates","tag-technology-update","tag-wordpress-plugin-download","tag-wordpress-theme-download"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t