Facebook launches another group calling app called CatchUp

Social networking giant Facebook has launched another group calling app, called CatchUp. The app has been developed by Facebook’s NPE Team (new product experimentation) and is being tested in the United States for a limited time on iOS and Android operating systems. For those unaware, NPE apps are meant to be new product experiments, which means they are subject to change.
Coming back to Catchup, the app allows its users to engage in group calling with up to 8 members. However, this is not the first platform from Facebook that gives users this facility including WhatsApp, Messenger Rooms, etc. The main differentiating factor between CatchUp and several other Facebook-owned group calling platforms is that CatchUp tells its users when other users of the are available to talk.
As per Nikki Shah, product lead, “Based on our studies, we found that one of the main reasons people don’t call friends and family more frequently is that they don’t know when they are available to talk or are worried they may reach them at an inconvenient time. CatchUp addresses this problem, and even makes group calling as easy as one tap.”