Imgur launches iPhone app to make browsing addicting images easy

Imgur is ready to take mobile seriously. The popular image sharing site is launching a new iPhone app on Thursday that reimagines the experience of browsing through its massive collection of photos, GIFs, and other images. This isn’t the first time that Imgur has tried to launch a mobile app, but Imgur thinks that this is the first time it got it right.

„The app is beautiful,“ Alan Schaaf, Imgur founder and CEO, tells The Verge. „It’s just absolutely beautiful and the best browsing experience for Imgur period, that exists.“

„We started on the thing we thought was absolutely most critical, and that was the browsing experience.“

The new app isn’t much like Imgur’s website. Instead of seeing a grid of tiny images that you might want to…

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