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Contrast

https://contrast.co/
Last activity: 25.01.2024
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Launch actions on your iPhone — not *just* apps.
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Employees
1-10
Founded date
2008

Mentions in press and media 14

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Sep 24, 2020Launch Center Pro lets you build custom icons to customize your iOS 14 home screenLaunch Center Pro, an iOS utility that offered widgets and custom icons long before they were allowed on the iPhone’s home screen, is bringing its design tools to iOS 14. The app aims to capitalize on the recent trend toward home screen per...
Jun 12, 2019NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13NFC — the technology that helps power Apple Pay as well other clever features for iOS apps like Launch Center Pro’s tappable stickers — is getting a big upgrade with the launch of iOS 13, due out this fall. Instead of only allowing iPhone a...
Dec 21, 2018Launch Center Pro now lets you tap stickers to launch tasks on your iPhoneBefore there were Siri Shortcuts, there was Launch Center Pro — a clever iOS utility that for years has allowed iPhone users to automate more complex tasks by creating shortcuts. For example, you could search Yelp for the nearest coffee sho...
Nov 16, 2018Weather Up’s app can give you forecasts for your calendar eventsThere are plenty of weather apps to choose from on the App Store, but the newly released Weather Up app is doing something different. Instead of just offering the daily weather, it will now offer Event Forecasts — meaning forecasts that syn...
Oct 15, 2018Sneaky subscriptions are plaguing the App StoreSubscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017, and are poised to grow to $75.7 billion by 2022. But alongside this healthy growth, a number of s...
Sep 1, 2017Designed for iPhone 8, Weather Atlas is a great replacement for your stock weather appThere’s no shortage of weather apps on the market, but you may have noticed that few of them are actually all that good. That’s where a new entry called Weather Atlas, from the developer behind the popular productivity app Launch Center Pro...
Jun 12, 2016Apple’s App Store at the end of the app eraLike a fly frozen in amber, the App Store’s fundamental deal has remained unmoving since its inception. As an enormous ecosystem swelled around it, crystalline structures of new rules and avenues of customer interaction have also grown — bu...
Mar 4, 2016Rando is a random social sharing app that lets you play Russian Roulette with photos, GIFs and moreA new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro, promises to be the cure for boredom. Rando, as the app is called, offers a crazy twist on our carefully curated online personas — instead of allowing you to c...
Sep 18, 2015GeekWire Radio: Dave McClure and Brady Forrest on their new TV show, ‘Bazillion Dollar Club’Dave McClure and Brady Forrest Are you ready to join the Bazillion Dollar Club? Our guests this on the GeekWire radio show this week are Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure and hardware startup guru Brady Forrest, the stars of the new TV s...
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FAQ about Contrast

When was Contrast founded?

Contrast was founded in 2008.

What has the press written about Contrast?

Parsers VC has collected 14 articles mentioning Contrast, among them “Launch Center Pro lets you build custom icons to customize your iOS 14 home screen” (Sep 24, 2020) and “NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13” (Jun 12, 2019).

Is Contrast still active?

Yes, Contrast is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 25, 2024.