SAN FRANCISCO/PRNewswire/ -- Learnist today announced that a mobile app for Android? users is now available in the Google PlayStore?. Learnist is a popular knowledge sharing network fueled by over 1 million users on the web and mobile devices.  The Learnist App for Android comes less than a year after the launch of Learnist for the iPhone and Learnist for the iPad jumpstarted broad social learning applications on mobile devices, enabling people to share and learn about anything, anytime.

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By developing for Android, Learnist will expand its International reach by supporting yet another very popular mobile platform.

The Android mobile app allows you to:

• Find multimedia learning experiences and expert knowledge in the areas of your interests
• Collaborate with users who are like-minded and share similar interests and domain expertise
• Seamlessly connect and share social learning with your existing social networks

"Android's international reach makes it a great additional platform for Learnist's mission to help the world share and organize humanity's knowledge," says Farbood Nivi, Founder of Learnist. "We're really excited to bring social knowledge sharing into the hands of hundreds of millions of learners around the world."

Learnist has attracted users in over 40 countries, where the demand for online learning is driven by massive growth in digital media publishing and distribution and the proliferation of smart connected devices.  Users can already embed nearly 40 popular media types in a Learnist Learn Board to create in-depth, authoritative learning on any given subject.  Furthermore, with the recent launch of Learnist SmartRSS, hundreds of media companies have created profiles and are publishing their content into Learnist.

About Learnist User Engagement

Learnist has nearly 400,000 user-contributed articles assembled in didactic learning experiences. Return member visits surpassed 20 minutes after the launch of Learnist for iOS and have continued to increase in 2013.  The personalized Learning Feed, based on categories of interest that users select, has increased mobile usage frequency, with nearly 30% of mobile members using Learnist 2 or more times a week. 

About Learnist

Learnist is a web and mobile social learning application for discovering and learning just about anything. Learnist's mission is to inspire and share valuable learning with others across social networks. Learnist is backed by Atlas Venture, Benchmark Capital, Discovery Communications, Inc., GSV Capital, Integral Capital Partners and New Schools Ventures. Start learning and sharing what you know at Learnist.com. Learnist for iPhone and iPad is available here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learnist/id522850398.

*Learnist is a trademark of Learnist, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Editorial contact

Celeste Malia, Voce Communications, a Porter Novelli Company for Learnist 

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