The Knock In app, developed in Sophia Antipolis, allows you to better manage your communications with your contacts – Martin / ANP / 20 min
- Knock In is an app from the startup YellowTwigs that was developed in Sophia Antipolis and students are still in their undergraduate studies.
- It allows you to manage your communications with your contacts, especially on notifications received.
- Crowdfunding was launched to be able to further develop the app and best meet user requirements.
SMS, emails, instant messaging … there are more and more ways to get compatible with a smartphone. Many apps like notifications that can make our daily life easier, like the stampede. From this observation, Jean-Francois Codier created, with his partner and students from Nice,
Knock on A “Communications Assistant” for Android is intended to filter and sort all these alerts.
One year later, the mobile application developed in the Sophia-Antipolis Technology Park (Alpes-Maritimes) has been downloaded nearly 30,000 times worldwide. And businessmen want to go further. They want to present an improved version with more features from September. “We have launched a campaign
Crowdfunding To be able to develop a series of additional options, says Jean-Francois Codier. It’s also the way to be more visible. We are receiving suggestions to get the most complete app as possible. “
“At the moment, you only get notifications from the selected contacts upstream, the“ VIPs. ”You can view the rest of the received items whenever you want. The initial release allows for centralization of a person’s messages, whether they come from WhatsApp, emails, or SMS: For the next release, we would like to add other instant messaging applications such as Facebook Messenger.
“Contact in the call center”
Since its launch in February 2020, the co-founder has found its idea “really useful in everyday life”. “Throughout the day, we receive a lot of alerts for work, family, or advertisements. But all of these requests are not equally important. However, every time they generate stress and distract the user instead of completely disconnecting and causing fear of losing something, we chose an alternative It simplifies communication. “
“Some people pay coaches to manage their relationship on the phone. In our view, the solution is to return the contact to our call center, rather than spending all of your time on apps that filter incoming information.”
Coming soon on iOs?
In addition to simplifying the reception of messages, Knock In facilitates sending. The interface provides a contact card with the apps he uses. There is also an option to send a message on multiple platforms simultaneously. If we can, we will improve this service so that we can know where this person prefers to receive these messages. ”It is also possible to change“ VIPs ”if they are no longer used in your daily life.
In the boxes, the designer also has “zoom in iOs”. “In the formations we want to develop,” he explains. It also works with the ability to assign different ringtones to each “VIP”. The app is downloadable worldwide and in ten languages.
