Touchdown, the community-powered social platform the place customers create and publish digital temper boards and collages, at present launched a cellular function known as “Creation,” permitting customers to precise their creativity on the go.
Beforehand solely accessible on the internet app, Creation is arguably the preferred software amongst Touchdown’s 275,000+ customers because it lets them create temper boards from scratch, add shoppable hyperlinks, entry the neighborhood library of over 4.5 million pictures, add their very own pictures, in addition to use different primary modifying capabilities like rotate, undo, redo, delete, layering and extra.
Touchdown launched its iOS app in March, which solely let cellular customers create easy grids with 5 pictures and had no means of rotating property or shifting them round in addition to a shuffle button that randomly organized them.
Now, they’ll add as many pictures as they need and manipulate objects to their coronary heart’s content material; customers are capable of pinch the display to make a picture look smaller or bigger, transfer an merchandise beneath one other one, and so forth. Customers also can change the background and add visible design parts, equivalent to textual content, shapes, and icons.
“Probably the most hardcore suggestions we’ve gotten from our neighborhood during the last 12 months is that they desperately need this versatile, artistic software on cellular,” co-founder Ellie Buckingham advised TechCrunch.
Buckingham added that as a result of Touchdown wished to push out the function as rapidly as attainable, it can solely have the “primary tooling” at launch moderately than the total performance that exists on the internet. For example, cellular customers are unable to add pictures or add shoppable hyperlinks to temper boards—two useful options for small companies and types trying to promote their merchandise on the platform. Touchdown plans to replace the function quickly.
Nevertheless, she additionally famous that Creation is a cross-platform software, which means customers can add pictures to the platform through the online app after which use them on cellular. There’s additionally an choice to save lots of a temper board in drafts, so customers who wish to make their content material on the go can wait till they’ve entry to the online so as to add their shoppable hyperlink.
At the moment, the Creation function is simply accessible on iOS gadgets and desktops. Touchdown lately launched its beta app within the Google Play Retailer just a few weeks in the past; nonetheless, the corporate plans to check Creation on iOS first earlier than rolling it out to Android gadgets.
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Cell customers could have additionally observed a ChatGPT function in Creation known as “GlitterBot,” which generates each day horoscopes or an inspirational snapshot of the day. For example, it can say issues like “Hey there, shimmering soul! At the moment’s cosmic tides splash you with limitless pleasure and a vibrant zest for all times.” Basically, it’s a poetic description that customers can put up alongside their temper board. GlitterBot is presently in beta.
Touchdown says it additionally leverages AI as a “artistic sidekick” by means of picture tagging and picture suggestions.
Based by Buckingham and Miri Buckland, Touchdown initially launched in 2021 as a house design platform however advanced right into a collage maker for Gen Z. The platform has an identical vibe to Pinterest’s Shuffles app and the now-defunct Polyvore, permitting customers to be impressed and faucet into their self-expression.
There are tons of prospects on Touchdown, like utilizing it as an aesthetically pleasing visible diary, planning out outfits, or creating presentation slides, graphics for social media, digital imaginative and prescient boards, and extra. Customers also can chat with different customers through the neighborhood areas tab.