Pearltrees Launch Android Client For Online Collaborative Sharing

Pearltrees on Android

Back in 2009, the team behind Pearltrees gave me a demo of their titular application. At that point it was web-based only, but they had a vision of bringing their sharing/curation tool to as many people as possible. As with every Web 2.0 demo from 2009, it was very slick, and perhaps a little too polished for my personal tastes, but there were two important ingredients on show.

One was the vision of the team, which is always important in a start-up. The other was how well they seemed to be managing their capital (now standing at 8 million EUR over four rounds of funding) to provide the French based start-up with a long runway to fine-tune that vision and expand carefully out from the browser based client.

A version for the iPad followed in October 2011, and iPhone users joined the fray in July 2012. Now, almost four years after the first open beta versions, the Pearltrees team have released an Android client.

With all your Pearltrees stored in the cloud, the Android app continues to build on the idea of creating strong collaborative communities across the internet, and the addition of the Android platform should bring more people into the ecosystem, where they can collect, share, annotate, and give some order to everything they find on the web that they want to keep track of, all in an easy to understand but powerful user interface that reminds me of a mind map - in this case though it's a mind map of my own internet of interests.

You can download the free Android Pearltrees client from the Google Play Store right now.