Official Tapatalk app for Windows Phone now available as an early-access purchase

This morning, the official Tapatalk client for Windows Telephone (both 7.x and 8; optimized for WP8) has been released to the Shop and is now available every bit role of an early-access program for enthusiast users.

Tapatalk is the leading standard for discussion forums, allowing users a mutual system by which to access and use internet communities. Official apps accept been available on iOS and Android for some time but today, Windows Phone users finally become their due with an app built from the ground-upwardly.

Windows Phone Central readers were treated to our sneak peek of the app a few weeks agone, where we noted that the app was shut to release having been in a individual beta.

App description

Non familiar with Tapatalk? Here's what it's all about:

"Find nifty cyberspace communities or stay connected with your favourites community on-the-go with this award-winning mobile app, now for Windows Phone. Tapatalk is the simply mobile app combing over lx,000+ net communities with a streamlined mobile feel, allowing you to share and follow thoughts and opinions to all your communities inside a single app.

Tapatalk aggregates content from network of communities of common interests, from automotive to parenting, from gardening to horse-riding - Yous will run into passionate people who share the same interest and participate in dandy discussions on topic only you and the like-minded members truly appreciated.
Download Tapatalk today to run into a native customs experience on Windows Phone. Special Cheers to Microsoft to donate devices and provide technical support in building this awarding. Tapatalk acquired Foroplex and this app is a production of both the Tapatalk team and the original Foroplex developer Jagoba Los Arcos from Spain."

Early access and an introductory price - $2.99

The app is being made available slightly alee of schedule and will toll $ii.99. While that seems expensive, the app volition become Gratis after 1 month (in addition, trial should exist added too).

The developers are doing this for a few reasons, none of which are to hoodwink Windows Telephone users:

Larger base of operations of dedicated users who can provide feedback
Gives the developers some animate room to fix bugs, tidy issues upwards, before it goes wide-release
Consider it donation-ware/support to the developers for their difficult work

Indeed, existence a part of the beta and seeing the intricacies involved with testing (quick: think of how many sites you know take support forums—now imagine getting them all to piece of work within 1 client), nosotros can vouch for the developers who put a tremendous endeavor into the app, resulting in a solid representation for Windows Phone.

Of course if you are a casual user, than paying $2.99 is probably not an selection and that's fine—this is beingness fabricated for the "forum junkies" who want early access and a chance to test out the app before everyday folk get their easily on it.

Tapatalk – Windows Phone 7.x or viii – 2 MB - $ii.99 – Store Link

Stay tuned to Windows Phone Fundamental for when the app goes "GOLD" and drops in price!

QR: Tapatalk

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