Dropbox on Wednesday expanded its app line-up, with a brand new app, Carousel and the the long-awaited Mailbox for Android app.
“This is a little glimpse into our new home; a home for life,” Dropbox co-founder and chief executive Drew Houston said during an event in San Francisco.
Along with the apps, the company also launched Dropbox for Business and made some announcements related to company’s management.
“And today, we’re thrilled to announce three amazing additions to our leadership team to help us get there,” read the blog post.
First up, is Carousel, a new gallery style photo viewer for organising and sharing your photos for iOS 7 and Android 4 or higher. Tools built into Carousel allow users to instantly share batches of images, which are stored on Dropbox servers and can also be accessed from desktop computers. Private conversations feature in the Carousel app also allows users to chat about photos directly from the app.
“At the end of the day, we want this to be home for all people’s memories,” said Soleio Cuervo, head of designs for Dropbox, notes Fast company.
The new Carousel app is available for free download on the Google Playstore as well as the Apple Appstore.
Also unveiled is the Mailbox for Android app, with a new auto-swipe feature. The company claims that the feature learns from users’ actions to predict what they would do with emails and automatically perform it.
The app’s settings is also said to sync with the users’ Dropbox accounts to have the same settings across all desktop and mobile versions of the app.
“We’ve received thousands of requests for an Android app, and after nearly a year of work we’re excited to bring the simplicity of Mailbox to the world’s most popular mobile platform,” read the blog.
Dropbox also announced a desktop version of Mailbox, currently in beta, to be launched in the coming weeks.
