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This week, we took a look into how BeReal may be capitalizing on its newer features and college ambassador program to drive installs and its five-star reviews. But when an app grows this quickly, there are usually some paid user acquisition efforts involved.

The app has recently gained a lot of attention amid rapid growth and a daily active user base that’s now reached nearly 3 million, according to data from Apptopia. The user then has up to 2 minutes to share what they’re up to and see the photos their friends also posted. BeReal: Hype or hit?Īn app called BeReal, founded by former GoPro employee Alexis Barreyat along with Kévin Perreau, launched in December 2019 with the idea to ask users to post an unedited photo once per day after receiving a notification. The company didn’t clarify if existing apps would be removed from the Play Store when the policy goes into effect, however. The default dialer on the phone would not be impacted by this, as it doesn’t need the accessible capability to get access to the incoming audio stream, he said. In the webinar, Moun Choi, who works on the Trust & Safety Play Regional Ops team for Google Play, explained the focus of the policy was directed toward third-party apps where the call recording was taking place without the other user’s awareness. (The video is labeled April 2020 but this appears to be a mislabel, because YouTube shows it was streamed April 2022 - and commenters are also noting the typo.) While that may be true, the company had not taken action on apps using the Accessibility API in this way.

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Google also livestreamed a policy update this week where it explained this was not actually a “new” policy, necessarily, but rather a clarification to an existing one. The change was announced alongside other updates on April 6, but a Reddit post drove new awareness of the crackdown.

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Developers had been using the Accessibility API to enable remote call audio recording as a workaround to make these apps work after Google blocked call recording on Android 6 and via the microphone on Android 10. Google updated its Play Store policies to ban third-party call-recording apps from the Play Store, effective as of May 11. This Week in Apps offers a way to keep up with this fast-moving industry in one place, with the latest from the world of apps, including news, updates, startup fundings, mergers and acquisitions, and suggestions about new apps to try, too.ĭo you want This Week in Apps in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here: /newsletters Top Stories Google bans call-recording apps This was up 20% from 2020, when 193 apps and games topped $100 million in annual consumer spend, and just eight apps topped $1 billion. In 2021, 233 apps and games generated over $100 million in consumer spend, and 13 topped $1 billion in revenue. In markets like Brazil, Indonesia and South Korea, users surpassed five hours per day in mobile apps in 2021.Īpps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours, either. And they’re not even the world’s heaviest mobile users.

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The average American watches 3.1 hours of TV per day, for example, but in 2021, they spent 4.1 hours on their mobile device. Today’s consumers now spend more time in apps than ever before - even topping the time they spend watching TV, in some cases. Downloads of apps also grew by 5%, reaching 230 billion in 2021, and mobile ad spend grew 23% year over year to reach $295 billion. Global spending across iOS, Google Play and third-party Android app stores in China grew 19% in 2021 to reach $170 billion. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports.

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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.