More Croatian technology innovation helping pupils all over the world.
PhotoMath, the most popular Croatian mobile application, which was released exactly one year ago, is now being used by an entire generation of pupils in Croatia. In September, the month when a new school year begins in Croatia, PhotoMath increased the number of users in Croatia to 38,000. For comparison, that is about 20 percent of all high school students in Croatia or slightly less than the number of first graders who this year started primary school. Globally, in the last month and a half, PhotoMath has attracted additional four million new users, and it currently has more than 22 million of them. Damir Sabol, founder of Microblink which developed PhotoMath, says he is satisfied that the application is being more frequently used in Croatia, reports Poslovni.hr on October 19, 2015.
“There were a lot of surprises in the past month, among others, we again climbed to number one position in the App Store, which means that once again we were the most sought after free application for Apple users”, Sabol says. The first time that PhotoMath climbed to the top of the App Store was in November last year, only a month after the presentation of the application at TechCrunch Disrupt conference in London. Although the jury did not name it as the best European start-up, the users have made their decision. Just in the first day, 110,000 users downloaded the app.
Just a month later, the app had 8.5 million users. In March, PhotoMath introduced a version for Android, the most popular mobile platform in the world, and in the next thirty days increased the number of users to 14 million. “We currently have more than five million users just on Android, with most users, around 60 percent, generally coming from the United States”, Sabol says. He adds that a real revolution is about to start. They will soon present PhotoMath 2.0, which will bring the possibility of correcting entries, which means it will have a keyboard, and will have all the possibilities of a calculator. “We want to be equally important as Casio calculators once were”, Sabol adds.
Casio launched the first compact digital calculator in 1957. Over the years, it has developed it to solve complex equations with graphing capabilities. In Croatia, the Digitron company from Buje produced Europe’s first pocket calculator in 1971. Today, they produce compact fiscal cash registers. Sabol says that the future of PhotoMath is in spreading knowledge about mathematics. “Part of that knowledge will already be built into version 2.0, and that is something we will work on during the next six months”, Sabol says.
