If you thought there was already an app for everything, just wait until you start using Yapp.  Yapp is a free tool that lets users quickly build and share their own mobile applications for events ranging from business conferences to sweet 16 birthday parties. The service has been in private beta since April, but on Tuesday, Yapp announced its public launch for Android and iPhone.  Rather than painstakingly design a webpage to organize an event, Yapp lets users select from a set of themes and features to design a mobile experience, like event invitations, photo galleries, a news feed and bios of attendees.  These event applications are not featured in Google Play or Apple’s App Store. Instead, users can keep these apps private and share them with friends and colleagues through a unique download link. The apps then show up in the inbox within Yapp’s app. Users must have a Yapp ID to share and download the event apps.  In the six months that the product has been in beta, Yapp says nearly three quarters of users tried the product and more than half of those successfully created at least one app. Some of these users have been particularly clever and created event apps for secret dining experiences, fundraisers and more.  For the public launch, Yapp has added several useful new features, including giving users the ability to send push notifications through their apps and providing customizable app download URLs for users to share apps with one another.  While there are other tools out for building your own apps like Apps Builder, Yapp is a bit more streamlined and easier to use. The company previously raised a seed round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins, North Bridge Venture Partners and Cue Ball.  Images courtesy of Yapp; thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, piovesempre.
Yapp, a free tool that makes it easy to build mobile apps for events like weddings and birthdays, came out of private beta on Tuesday.