Clubhouse exits beta phase and becomes available to everyone
Audio chat app Clubhouse is no longer invite-only. This allows anyone to download the Clubhouse app for iOS and Android and create a new account. Users who are on the waiting list will gradually also gain access to the audio chat platform.
Clubhouse founders Paul Davidson and Rohan Seth announced in a blog post that the chat app left its beta phase on Monday. With this, the company has removed the waiting list system, so that anyone can create a new account. Users who are on the waiting list are gradually added to the app.
A Clubhouse spokesperson told The Verge that millions of people on the waiting list are not immediately added to the platform, but that users can also manually re-register via the app. The company also shows a new logo in the form of a kind of waving emoji. The app icon also changes to a photo of Justin “Meezy” Williams, the manager of rapper 21 Savage. The company says it will release a new update every one to two weeks.
Clubhouse came out for iOS last year and became very popular. The app lets users create chat rooms in which the hosts can talk to each other. Other users can also enter these rooms if allowed, but can only listen to the conversation. Meanwhile, the app has competition from various companies, who have incorporated the functionality of Clubhouse into their respective platforms. Earlier this year, Twitter introduced Spaces, Facebook and Discord introduced Clubhouse-like features, and Spotify introduced its Greenhouse audio chat app.
the new Clubhouse logo. Source: Clubhouse