Dear Smooz Users,
Following the completion of the refund for Smooz Premium Service on May 20th, we have deleted all the user information as previously announced. We once again thank you for your support since the launch of Smooz in September 2016.
Sincerely,
Yuichi Kato
CEO, Astool Inc.
Dear Smooz Users,
As announced, the refund for Smooz Premium Service ended on May 20th, and we would like to thank those who cooperated in the refund process. We will soon delete all user information including the information that we used for the refund – we will let you know on this blog once the deletion is completed.
Sincerely,
Yuichi Kato
CEO, Astool Inc.
Dear Smooz Users,
As announced previously, Smooz was discontinued on December 23rd, 2020. We would like to let you know that we are ready to refund Premium users of Smooz. If you are eligible to apply for a refund, please contact us at “support@smooz.mail.helpshift.com”.
We appreciate your patience till now, and would like to encourage you to contact us so that we could proceed with your refund as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Yuichi Kato
CEO, Astool Inc.
We regret to announce that Smooz is discontinued on 23rd of December, 2020.
To those who have subscribed to the premium service of the iOS app, we will inform you of how the refund is made on our blog (https://smoozapp.com/blog/en/ ) shortly.
If you have inquiries about the refund, please contact us at: support@smooz.mail.helpshift.com
We wish to thank all Smooz users, and we would like to accept all feedback for this endeavor.
Yuichi Kato
CEO, Astool Inc.
Good news for tab lovers.
From Smooz iOS ver1.28.0, we eliminated the upper limit number of tabs and made it infinite, so you can now open as many tabs as you want!
Other Improvements
●The upper limit of tabs is gone and infinite tabs can be now opened!
●Show tabs when AMP pages is opened.
Bug Fixes
●Gestures did not worked on the quick access area.
●“New tab” buttons did not appear on Google search results.
Global release of Smooz was featured on below media.
We are so grateful for these great review articles.
Lifehacker (US) Use Smooz to Actually Browse the Web One-Handed
Nikkei Newspaper (Japan) タブ付きブラウザー、アスツールが世界展開 (Astool Inc. goes global with the tab browser )
Tech-Wd (Saudi Arabia) Smooz متصفح ويب غني على أندريد و iOS (Rich browser for Android & iOS)
ASCII (Japan) 20万DLのスマホブラウザー「Smooz」、全世界配信を開始 (Smooz started releasing Smooz globally)
THE BRIDGE 進化する次世代多機能モバイルWebブラウザ「Smooz」、iOS版とAndroid版をグローバルリリース (Smooz, involving next gen mobile web browser, released iOS/Android apps globally)
Diario Tecnologia (Spain) Smooz: El navegador móvil que funciona con una mano (Smooz: The mobile browser that works with one hand)
mobilenet.cz (Czech) Internetový prohlíčeč Smooz snadno obsloužíte i jednou rukou(You can easily serve the web browser with one hand)
Do you know Product Hunt?
Product Hunt is a web service where new products/services are introduced everyday and users who love new products enjoy finding out great ones.
Smooz was posted on Product Hunt here on Feb 28 and it was upvoted by over 400 product hunters!
We are so excited with this and very appreciative to everyone who recommended Smooz.
Smooz, a gesture-centric mobile browser that enables swift one-handed operation and more, announced its global launch.
Tokyo, Japan – February 27, 2018 – Smooz is a gesture-based mobile browser that supports smooth one-handed operation. This app that offers desktop-class tab navigation on mobiles will be available globally from today.
This next-generation mobile browser offers a fresh and unique browsing experience with its gesture-based navigation, tab manager, customizable gesture controls that trigger a multitude of functions, and social media convergence. Smooz won the “Best Apps of 2016” in the Japan App Store and raised $1 million from venture capitalists and angel investors in two early rounds.
“The reason we created Smooz is very simple. The lack of reinvention of mobile browsers is a pity,” said Yuichi Kato, Founder and CEO of Smooz. “The mobile version of Safari was introduced with the original iPhone in 2007. People spend so much time browsing, but shockingly, browsers haven’t undergone any innovation for over 10 years. Smooz is all set to change it.”
Smooz’s numerous features include, but are not limited to:
According to Counterpoint Research’s Global Daily User Behavior survey, mobile users spend the most time browsing the Internet – more than playing games, making voice calls and messaging. Regardless, there hasn’t been major reform in the ways users browse the web.
“Mobile browsers have become akin to search result vending machines where you type in keywords and just see the top results. However, we believe the browsing experience needs to be far more immersive, captivating and experiential. By making every bit of navigation smooth and seamless, Smooz makes the overall experience of searching for information much more entertaining,” said Kato.
Smooz was developed with a mission to innovate the mobile web browsing experience within the evolving webosphere. Smooz can be downloaded here.
About Astool Inc.:
Astool is a startup founded in March 2016 by Yuichi Kato, a former product manager at Sony, Viber and Rakuten. With the mission of extending human capabilities by creating tools for the future, the company launched Smooz in September 2016 having raised $1 million from VCs and angel investors in 2 early rounds.
About Yuichi Kato:
Yuichi Kato is an entrepreneur and product creator who has developed consumer software/hardware products throughout his career. He taught himself how to code in 2012 in his spare time and created numerous apps. One of those, TennisCore was awarded the “Best of Apple Watch Apps” in 2015. Smooz followed in 2016, winning the “Best of 2016” in the Japan App Store. While Kato launched several other applications only on the Japan App Store, this indie developer has gone global with the overwhelming success of Smooz.
Media Contact:
Name: Yuichi Kato
Email: info@smoozapp.com