This Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights.
After much controversy, HEY, a new email service from Basecamp, is now on the App Store. With a little over 13,000 downloads since going live, HEY, which is an email service and not an email client, takes on giants like Gmail and Outlook.
Parler, a social network claiming to be focused on free expression and user privacy, has made its way to the #2 app in the News category in the US after Twitter banned pro-Trump accounts. With downloads up 3,000%, Parler managed to snatch the #1 spot from Twitter for precisely two hours earlier today. Report
Downloads of restaurant reservation apps Resy and OpenTable are beginning a slow climb back to pre-covid rates as restaurants in large states like New York let diners back in for sit-down service.
Talking about going out. This week, downloads of travel booking app Orbitz surpassed pre-lockdown downloads and hit the highest single-day downloads in the App Store.
Move aside movie streamers. The Premier League restarted last week, giving us something else to do with our screens. The excitement was global. Soccer trackers LiveScore and FotMob (my favorite) a 10x and 35x boost in downloads, respectively.
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