Pradeep Elankumaran //
Leave a comment This afternoon we got a nice surprise – Kicksend is now listed on the Chrome Web Store homepage as a Featured App. Install Kicksend on Chrome now!
Big thanks to the Google Chrome Team for featuring us!
We’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve just launched Kicksend 2.0 on the iPhone,
Throughout the development and user experience testing of the new Kicksend app we were trying to find the quickest and easiest way to access your photos. Our goal was to have your photos easily accessible at anytime, anywhere in the application. We found that quickly swiping to reveal your photos was the easiest way to do this. Also, gone is the old tab bar on the bottom of the screen. You can easily access your Inbox, Sent files, Friends, and Lists by swiping to the right. We’ve also added brand new guided steps to help new users quickly get started with Kicksend.
Even though we’ve already revamped the application, we’re still nowhere near finished. Expect to see some amazing new changes to our iPhone app within the next few weeks. Our new iPhone app is truly is one of the easiest ways to send large batches of photos or videos privately to the people you care about. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can get it for free on the App Store.
Today, we’re incredibly excited to launch the Android version of our popular app. Kicksend now offers a private, beautiful and easy way to send full quality photos and videos from both iPhone and Android devices.
Our mission is to make it easy to send anything from anywhere to anyone, without compromising your privacy. The new Kicksend for Android joins Kicksend’s web, desktop and iPhone apps in providing an intuitive and beautiful way to send, receive and organize personal files with the people you love.
“We’re incredibly excited to bring the magic of Kicksend to Android users,” said Brendan Lim, co-founder of Kicksend. “For the first time, Android users have an easy way to get large batches of photos off of their phones and into the hands of friends and family.”
Key Kicksend for Android Features:
For screenshots of Kicksend for Android features, check out http://www.kicksend.com/media_kit. Here’s the full press release.
Free app provides a private way to send full quality photos and videos on mobile, web and desktop
Mountain View, CA, May 15, 2012 – Kicksend offers a private, beautiful and easy way to send full quality photos and videos from any device. Today, the Y Combinator-incubated startup launched a new version of its popular web app. The company also announced that its mobile, web and desktop apps are now available completely free of charge.
Everyone has a camera and video-recorder in their pocket but we all have different ideas about what we want shared publicly and when. Whether it’s pictures of our families, our friends blowing off some steam at a party, or even that girls weekend in Vegas – there are real consequences to our public sharing addiction.
“Over the past few years, it’s gotten easier to take large numbers of high quality photos and videos and blast them out to everyone you know,” said Pradeep Elankumaran, CEO of Kicksend. “However, sharing those photos with a subset of your contacts or sending full quality personal images to just your family members is still remarkably difficult. That’s where we come in.”
New Web App
At Kicksend, we want to make it easy for you to send anything from anywhere to anyone, without compromises. The newly redesigned Kicksend web interface provides an intuitive and beautiful way to send, receive and organize your personal files online.
Key features:
* Private – Send photos or videos directly to friends and family.
* Lists – Lists make it quick and easy to send files to groups of people
* Comments – With in-app commenting, you can leave notes for the people sending you files and have a conversation
* File type agnostic – Send any type of file to any email address.
* Simple – Refreshed interface and built-in organizer make sending and receiving files a breeze
Completely Free
Kicksend is great for sending large batches of photos and videos to loved ones. While popular email clients limit both the size and number of files that you can send, Kicksend is specifically designed for big files (like videos) and large batches of files (like vacation photos). Starting today, you can send and receive to your heart’s content. For free.
Under the old pricing model, Kicksend’s introductory plan allowed users to send up to 1 gig per month for free, with additional plans available for users who wanted to send more than 1 gig per month. In the updated model, users can send an unlimited number of files at no cost, on all of our platforms.
* Web: access all of your Kicksend files, anywhere you go.
* Mobile: the only iPhone app that lets you send large batches of full quality photos directly from your phone.
* Desktop: drag and drop hundreds of photos and files of any size and keep received files organized on your hard drive.
About Kicksend
Kicksend makes it easy to send private photos, videos and other files to people you love. It’s a simple way to share large batches of full quality files on the web, mobile and desktop. Kicksend was founded in 2011, was incubated at Y Combinator and then secured seed funding from True Ventures with participation from Digital Garage, SV Angel, Start Fund and Jack Abraham, the CEO of Milo.com. Kicksend offices are located in Mountain View, CA. Go to www.kicksend.com for more information.
Visit www.kicksend.com/media_kit for hi res logos and screenshots of the new interface.
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Got some exciting news from the Chrome Web Store team yesterday – Kicksend is now a featured app in the Productivity > Office Applications category. If you’re a Chrome user, go check out the Chrome Web Store and install Kicksend with one click!
