Clubhouse iOS downloads drop as it tests Android app

Clubhouse: the company that made the headlines just a few months ago for the drawing major celebrities (and Elon musk): Seems to have reached a tip point. In April, the app reached a total of 922,000 downloads, a new search was found, a sharp drop after bringing back millions of new users just a month earlier.

These figures come from the analysis company SensorTower, which previously had highlighted that the app has been on a downward slope for months. In January, Clubhouse reached 2 million downloads. In February, the app exceeded 9.5 million downloads but plunged down to around 2.7 million in March, according to the company’s tally. Now, it’s fallen below one million downloads per month for April, a low we haven’t seen since December of last year.

There is all kinds of reasons why those numbers could be going down. Some to have theorized that the audio-only application, which remains exclusively for iOS, was a smash hit on the pandemic simply because so many of us were hungry people. With vaccination numbers to skyrocket across the U.S., and people in fact start to leave their homes for the first time in God knows how long, there’s a chance the Clubhouse is just a in the fashion of the pandemic era. There is also the fact that high level competitors like Facebook, Twitter and Spotify have jumped collectively on the social audio train in an attempt to woo Clubhouse’s user base. Monday, for example, Twitter officially deployed its own Clubhouse competitor, Spaces, to all Android and iOS users who have 600 or more subscribers.

Clubhouse, in the meantime, has worked to woo these users. The company ad on Sunday that the company is test an Android version of its application with a handful of “cool testers” outside of the company. While there is no way for the wider Android community to sign up for this app at this time, Clubhouse explained in its release notes that it plans to host these users on the platform “in the coming weeks”.