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Hooked is a freemium smartphone app that allows users to write or read short stories made up of text messages between characters. [1] [2] CEO Prerna Gupta described the app as "books for the Snapchat generation" or "Twitter for fiction." [3] As of March 2019, the app had more than 40 million active users. [4]
[3] [4] [5] Carnival of Souls is the first digital and motion comic book series on Blackberry's App World, written by Jazan Wild. [6] [7] The Carrier is the first original graphic novel exclusively on the iPhone, written by Evan Young. [8] Alien Revolution an eight chapter multi language comic, by Illot. [9] Mobilecomic A collection of comics ...
In 2014, Bitstrips launched a spin-off app known as Bitmoji, which allows users to create personalized stickers for use in messaging apps. In July 2016, Snap, Inc. announced that it had acquired the company; the Bitstrips comic service was shut down, but Bitmoji remains operational, and has subsequently been given greater prominence within ...
Chat fiction is a format of web fiction written solely in the form of text-message or instant messaging conversations. Works are read primarily through dedicated mobile phone applications, the earliest being Hooked, which launched in 2015. The format became popular among teenagers and young adults, and other competing platforms followed ...
Manta is a subscription-based service that allows all members to read unlimited amounts of content on its app at a fixed price. The app is available for Android and iOS devices, [4] and all content can be viewed from its official website. Manta is known to be the first subscription-based webcomic platform in the market. [5]
It was released as a standalone application independent of Android with the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop in 2014, replacing Google Hangouts as the default SMS app on Google's Nexus line of phones. [8] In 2018, Messages adopted RCS messages and evolved to send larger data files, sync with other apps, and even create mass messages. [9]
ComiXology's digital platform with Guided View reading technology is used in the company's own branded applications, and is the engine used by most major comic book publishers in the United States, including Marvel Comics and DC Comics for their privately branded digital services. [8]
TextFree (formerly called Pinger and sometimes stylized as textfree) is a mobile application and web service that allows users to send and receive text messages, as well as make and receive VoIP phone calls, for free over the internet. The service costs nothing because it is supported by ads, but users have the option of paying for an ad-free ...