Google has acquired app prototyping start-up Pixate for an undisclosed sum. As a result of the acquisition, the Pixate team will join Google but it will remain a standalone product. .
Started in 2012, Pixate creates tools for developers to help them make quicker and easier prototypes for mobile apps. Pixate Studio is now free after the acquisition and the team says it is working at “dramatically reducing the cost of the Pixate cloud service”. Form, a design tool that lets you build and customize native prototypes directly on iOS devices is also being updated to version 1.3.
“Our small team at Pixate has some really big ideas, and with the help of Google we’ll be able to bring those ideas to the design community at scale. We’ve become an essential part of the workflow for tens of thousands of designers, and are excited about expanding our mission at Google to reach millions of product teams worldwide.”
posted Paul Colton, Pixate CEO in a company blog.