
Up to 7 of your friends can join in with a simple swipe and will appear on your phone’s screen. Aimed at a young demographic, the app gives you the option to broadcast using your phone’s front-facing camera and sends individual notifications to your friends that you are online (or “in the house”). What’s special and captivating about Houseparty is that it allows you to live-stream with your contacts and closest friends. However, where other public broadcasting apps have failed, Houseparty has succeeded because it brings to light a fresh and intriguing concept – private streaming.īeing able to reach a huge community with a simple tap is not a new idea – it’s been done before in many different ways, some more successful than others. Available for both iOS and Android phones, the software’s premise seems rather demure at first – since live-streaming apps has already been present on the mobile market for quite some time and few of them managed to gathers a consistent, noteworthy audience. Launched by Meerkat, the company that made mobile broadcasting go mainstream last year, Houseparty is a video-chatting app which makes connecting with your close friends so much easier and more engaging.
