Clubhouse finally lets you listen to rooms from the web, no account required

(Pocket-lint) - Clubhouse, the unrecorded audio app that exploded successful popularity successful 2020 and past year, has yet expanded to the web.

But, considering its halfway functionality has present been replicated by respective different services including Twitter, 1 has to wonderment what took Clubhouse truthful agelong to motorboat this capability. Clubhouse, which allows you to big and articulation audio conversations with different users, was invite-only for the longest time, and it was lone disposable connected iOS and Android devices done its authoritative app.

Now, however, the institution has confirmed connected Twitter that it is investigating a caller sharing enactment that volition fto you stock a unrecorded country with anyone - different Clubhouse users, users connected different societal networks, and truthful on. When you stock the nexus to a unrecorded room, radical tin entree it done a web browser adjacent if they don’t person a Clubhouse account. But the diagnostic lone works for listening.

So, if you don't person an account, you cannot articulation a country to speech via the web. 

— Clubhouse (@Clubhouse) January 6, 2022

According to Clubhouse, immoderate rooms volition beryllium disposable for replay, too. This is each important for users of the app who whitethorn person thought astir jumping vessel for a rival service, specified arsenic Twitter Spaces, which has been disposable connected iOS, Android, and the web for a while.

Unfortunately, Clubhouse users tin lone effort replays and listening from the web if they're located successful the US. But, hey, it's a (long-awaited) start.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 7 January 2022.