Meerkat Houseparty — Group Video Chat. As soon as you open the app, you’re available to video chat. Your friends can jump in to chat with you, and you can jump in to chat with them. If they’re already in a chat, you can see who they’re talking to and join that, too. When you’re using Houseparty, the idea is that you’re willing to video chat with whichever one of your friends says hello.
Although Houseparty appears to have launched without much fanfare, it’s already garnered at least 100,000 downloads on Google Play. Oddly, Meerkat isn’t confirming that it’s behind the app, and it’s listed in app stores as being developed by an Alexandar Herzick.
A source close to the company says Houseparty is already bigger than Meerkat ever was. Which is somewhat ironic given Meerkat’s very public launch timed around SXSW in 2014 and Houseparty’s under-the-radar approach. (The app appears to be very similar to Sean Parker’s new Airtime, which also debuted this year.)
Houseparty is available for Android and iOS, and offers a simple way to chat with a bunch of people at once.
