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PingChat! relaunches as Touch, Waterloo-based Enflick moves into closed-community sharing

By on December 6, 2011 at 9:29am in Mobile News


We use a lot of different messaging apps here, from GChat to Kik to WhatsApp, but one of our most well-used multiplatform apps is PingChat! Today, Waterloo-based Enflick is relaunching the service as Touch, a closed-community messaging and sharing app for iOS, Android and BlackBerry.

The company hopes that because we all have too many contacts in our address books, and reach out to too few of them on a daily basis, Touch will allow people to add their closest friends and family in a beautiful interface to share photos and messages. Like PingChat! you can see delivered/read notifications, start group chats, with video/location sharing coming in a future update.

The app is joining a few other small community-focused apps such as Path in the burgeoning category, but one key advantage is that it is multi-platform capable, including BlackBerry, from day one.

Source: Touch
Via: TechCrunch

Discussion

10 comments for “PingChat! relaunches as Touch, Waterloo-based Enflick moves into closed-community sharing”

  1. Why?

    I really would like user statics on things like this and whats app etc.

    Posted by Gab | December 6, 2011, 10:20 am
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  2. These IM apps are only as good as the size of their user bases.

    During the summer, WhatsApp and Kik were like in the Top 10 free apps on Android market.
    Now WhatsApp is like #32 and Kik is not even in the top 100. What’s in the top 5? Facebook, Skype, and Facebook Messenger.

    Posted by roman129 | December 6, 2011, 10:52 am
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  3. Did u mean “like BBM”?

    Posted by saffant | December 6, 2011, 11:16 am
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  4. Yet an other useless proprietary messaging application that might be popular at the moment but will disappear completely in a few years…

    Posted by bob | December 6, 2011, 12:03 pm
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  5. Why did they make this change? I feel like I will have a few misunderstandings when I ask people to Touch me…..

    Posted by N/A | December 6, 2011, 12:20 pm
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  6. i dont like the new update theyve taken the video and voice out of it and just kept it plain with capture and experience.
    i think they have tried to make it look good but failed cause theye taken away peoples most wanted things from ping chat.

    Posted by Daniel | December 6, 2011, 12:34 pm
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  7. This was a terrible decision, and i hope Enflick is ready to face a TON of bad reviews. No one likes this new “Touch” app. People want Pingchat! back. If that’s a problem, then they might as well kiss their business goodbye. It’s obvious someone has failed at creating a fresh idea. If they wanted to develop Touch, then they should have made that a new app, instead of totally changing a perfectly good one. People unfamiliar with Pingchat! may have enjoyed Touch, but i can guarantee you after this mishap no one will be there to enjoy it.
    It’s only a matter of time before Enflick learns their lesson.

    Posted by Ash | December 6, 2011, 11:04 pm
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  8. Can we go back to Ping Chat, or remove Touch, I agree with Ash a big backwards step, from a nice easy non complex program to something that is not backwards compatible, so forget talking to your Ping Chat friends until they upgrade.

    Posted by Andrew | December 8, 2011, 4:15 am
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  9. Touch is a total disaster. Just wasted valuable time trying to get to grips with it. Ping was easy to use, so why change it? Enflick should dump Touch and restore Ping as soon as possible. Otherwise the pong surrounding this decision could become overwhelming.

    Posted by Cliff | December 9, 2011, 11:10 am
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