Touchdown, a platform for making digital temper boards, brings its creation instruments to cellular

Touchdown, the community-powered social platform the place customers create and publish digital temper boards and collages, at this time launched a cellular characteristic referred to as “Creation,” permitting customers to specific their creativity on the go.

Beforehand solely accessible on the internet app, Creation is arguably the most well-liked instrument amongst Touchdown’s 275,000+ customers because it lets them create temper boards from scratch, add shoppable hyperlinks, entry the group library of over 4.5 million photographs, add their very own photographs, in addition to use different fundamental enhancing 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 photographs and had no approach of rotating belongings or transferring them round apart from a shuffle button that randomly organized them.

Now, they’ll add as many photographs as they need and manipulate objects to their coronary heart’s content material; customers are in a position to pinch the display to make a picture look smaller or bigger, transfer an merchandise beneath one other one, and so forth. Customers may also change the background and add visible design components, equivalent to textual content, shapes, and icons.

“Probably the most hardcore suggestions we’ve gotten from our group over the past yr is that they desperately need this versatile, artistic instrument on cellular,” co-founder Ellie Buckingham advised TechCrunch.

Buckingham added that as a result of Touchdown needed to push out the characteristic as shortly as potential, it should solely have the “fundamental tooling” at launch moderately than the total performance that exists on the internet. For example, cellular customers are unable to add photographs 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 characteristic quickly.

Nevertheless, she additionally famous that Creation is a cross-platform instrument, which means customers can add photographs to the platform by way of the net app after which use them on cellular. There’s additionally an possibility to avoid wasting 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 net so as to add their shoppable hyperlink.

At present, the Creation characteristic is just accessible on iOS gadgets and desktops. Touchdown not too long ago launched its beta app within the Google Play Retailer a number of weeks in the past; nevertheless, the corporate plans to check Creation on iOS first earlier than rolling it out to Android gadgets.

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Cell customers might have additionally seen a ChatGPT characteristic in Creation referred to as “GlitterBot,” which generates every day horoscopes or an inspirational snapshot of the day. For example, it should say issues like “Hey there, shimmering soul! Right this moment’s cosmic tides splash you with countless pleasure and a vibrant zest for all times.” Primarily, 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 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 may also chat with different customers by way of the group areas tab.