Medium’s, cofounder and CEO, Ev Williams, announced the publishing platform is launching its first iPhone application next week. The news was revealed by Williams on Thursday night at a tech dinner held by Fortune in Menlo Park, California.
The app has been designed with read only feature. This means that initially users will only be able to consume content, not write or post anything through the app. Medium’s new app, unlike Twitter which limits posting of only up to 140 characters, will have no word or character limit.
Williams also shared that the publishing platform’s user base has grown huge in recent months from 9 million unique monthly users in December to its current 13 million count.
The news of the app comes just a few months after Medium accepted that it had closed a funding of $25 million in January from multiple investors incluidng Greylock Partners and Google Ventures.
Medium was unveiled in 2012 as a cross between micro-blogging platforms like Twitter and full-scale blogging platforms such as Blogger.
Posts in Medium are sorted by topic rather than writer or date published as it happens in case of other traditional blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger and others.
Although no information about the app’s features has been revealed, it is expected that the app would come with options to search for topics and stories, follow collections, and maybe even ways to save posts for offline reading. No word on when an Android version would be available.
