Mobile apps

WeChat to launch GoBeauty for booking all your beauty treatments [update]

WeChat is launching a new service in South Africa. The service is called GoBeauty, a smartphone app for booking beauty treatments. The invite to…

Ghana’s social events startup Suba wins #MWA2015 app competition

Social events startup Suba emerged as winner of the Mobile West Africa 2015 App Developer Competition recently. Out of five finalists Suba was voted…

WumDrop debuts iPhone app, teases with up-coming features

On-demand couriering has just become more sexy. South African on-demand startup WumDrop has just launched its iOS app, while also hinting at some interesting…

SnapScan rolls out ‘frictionless’ payment feature called SnapBeacons

South African payments startup SnapScan is today announcing its first major update since its QR code payments feature was popularised in 2013. The new…

WhereIsMyTransport releases innovative public transport app in Tshwane

Backed by a fresh new website and Knife Capital’s Grindstone accelerator programme, South African startup WhereIsMyTransport (WIMT) is today releasing its urban transportation and…

Phonebook replacer Truecaller says mobile-first Africa shows great potential for growth

The phonebook is a critical tool for billions of people who use it on a daily basis — but despite all of today’s advanced…

Kenya’s Easy Taxi finally introduces cashless payment method

Since Uber made inroads into Africa’s market two years ago, alternative taxi startups have been trying to find new ways to compete with the…

Carmudi zooms in on Africa’s mobile generation with new Android app

Since it launched mid-2013, Carmudi has shown to be one of Rocket Internet’s fastest expanding startups. The online car classifieds startup has launched an…

From design to craft beer, this app maps out Cape Town’s creative industry

Whether referring to its online design, marketing and arts or the coffee, craft beer, and good food, Cape Town’s booming with creatives. So much…

Hellofood unveils tasty app, gears up to become mobile-first

The popular food delivery startup, Hellofood, operates in ten countries across the African continent and goes by the name Foodpanda abroad. By keeping up…

Got apps? Apply for the MTN Business App of the Year Awards before it’s too late

The popular mobile payment startup, SnapScan, was the overall winner of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards 2013 and was soon acquired…

Ideas to reality: 5 free tools to build your own prototype (and potential startup)

Ideas to Reality is an article series where I take look at easy tools to help entrepreneurs get their projects up-and-running. We all have…

Social is easy: Pocketplan lets you find, book and pay for events in your city

Entertainment, like transport, is integral to any major city’s attractiveness to its citizens and tourists. And while we’ve seen some truly disruptive (read:Uber) and…

M-Pesa launches in first European country, targets Romania’s unbanked

This is a breath of fresh air… rather than seeing an international service launching in Africa, today we see the opposite. M-Pesa, the Kenyan-born…

Momentum Core and Leti Arts bring African apps to Mobile World Congress

African start-ups Momentum Core and Leti Arts will this year showcase their apps optimised for Intel Architecture at Mobile World Congress. Momentum Core will…

There’s a simpler budgeting app: Saved

If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to manage your money better, you might turn to an app like Saved. It’s a new…

GoMetro is VentureOut Challenge finalist, will pitch for $10k from infoDev

South African mobile startup GoMetro has been selected as a Global Finalist in the VentureOut Challenge — an initiative of infoDev, a global partnership…

FindMyWay brings public transport info to SA commuters’ mobile phones

In developing countries such as South Africa, public transport, despite being used by large portions of the population, often has a disconnect between important…

SA dominates Africa App Quest finalists, wildlife spotting app takes top spot

The Africa App Quest kicked off in March this year. The competition was a challenge to developers across the continent, to build the strongest…

Rocket Internet’s ecommerce flagship, Jumia, releases Android app for Africa

Jumia, the Rocket Internet backed West African ecommerce site, has announced the launch of its first smartphone app, available for users in, interestingly, not…

Tech travel startup Tourism Radio looks to Kickstarter for Google Glass app

Travel technology startup, Tourism Radio, is aiming to get a head start in utilizing emerging technologies. The startup wants to pair up with Google…

Herd Cows in digital version of local game Morabaraba

A cow herding board game played in rural South Africa, Morabaraba, is becoming digitized, developed by an ex-Stellenbosch University student and licensed to InnoVartis…

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