Partiful, the New York-based event-planning app that’s taking over older options like Evite, Eventbrite, and Fb Occasions, has been named Google’s app of the yr, the tech large introduced on Monday as a part of its “best apps and games of 2024” listing. The listing additionally highlighted the highest sport, AFK Journey, alongside different class winners like finest multi-device apps, hidden gems, and people dedicated to particular platforms, like watches or TVs, amongst different issues.
Partiful was based in 2020 by Palanitr alums Pleasure Tao and Shreya Murthy, and it raised a $20 million Sequence A1 spherical in late 2022. The spherical was led by Andreessen Horowitz and introduced Partiful’s complete funding to $27.34 million, valuing the corporate pre-money at $120 million, in response to knowledge from PitchBook. Summary Ventures, Initialized Capital Administration, ACME Capital, GV, New Enterprise Associates, and Benchmark additionally participated within the spherical.
Dubbed a Gen Z favourite due to its youthful consumer base, Partiful lets anybody design occasion pages and invite their buddies from a hyperlink, typically despatched by way of textual content messages. Although customers don’t want the app to answer occasion invitations, Partfiful occasion organizers can use the app to handle RSVPs, ship updates, add pics, add questionnaires, and make the most of different party-planning duties, like elevating funds, if wanted, or limiting the variety of spots. The app additionally lets customers monitor their occasion and occasion invitations in a single place and sync that data over to their most popular calendar.
The corporate stated its month-to-month lively customers had ranged the “millions” by the tip of 2023.
The app is an attention-grabbing option to turn out to be Google Play’s “App of the Year” provided that a lot of its consumer base is on iOS.
In accordance with knowledge from analytics agency Appfigures, Partiful has added 1,077,358 downloads thus far this yr, however 95% of these have been from the Apple App Retailer. Constructed with React Native, Partiful is hottest within the U.S.; the nation accounts for 92% of its App Retailer downloads and 97% of the entire on Google Play. Its weekly downloads grew by 4x this yr, and Appfigures says and it noticed a latest spike on November 1, which drove 71,000 downloads for the week.
Different app and video games winners on Monday embody fantasy RPG AFK Journey as its Finest Sport of 2024, Max as one of the best “multi-device” app, and Conflict of Clans as one of the best multi-device sport.
Different class winners embody:
The total listing, together with successful video games and books, is out there right here.
