The standard invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse has lastly arrived on Android after spending a 12 months on the Apple iOS platform.
Clubhouse for Android has began rolling out in beta from Monday, starting with the US, adopted by different English-speaking nations after which the remainder of the world.
“Our 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,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.
Clubhouse for Android will stay an invite-only platform, guaranteeing that every new group member can deliver alongside a couple of shut pals.
“As 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,” the corporate defined.
As tech giants like Twitter, Spotify, Facebook, Telegram, Discord and LinkedIn go after it, Clubhouse final month raised recent funding within the Series C spherical, taking its valuation to $four billion.
Clubhouse has gained immense reputation and has a reported 10 million weekly lively customers.
Twitter has introduced to make its dwell audio dialog app Spaces accessible to customers with 600 followers or extra on each iOS and Android platforms.
Facebook is launching an identical product known as Live Audio Rooms which can even be accessible on Messenger this summer time.
The firm mentioned final month that it’ll take a look at Live Audio Rooms in Groups, making it accessible to the 1.eight billion individuals utilizing Groups each month and tens of hundreds of thousands of lively communities on Facebook.
Clubhouse mentioned that with Android, “we believe that Clubhouse will feel more complete”.
The firm has additionally rolled out its funds characteristic to over 66,000 creators within the US, as a part of its aim to assist creators monetise and earn cash from customers on its platform.
