Roeland van der Spek Technical Director
Sparkling Apps is a young enterprise that has jumped on the possibilities in the current market and technologies. The mobile technology and social media offer unique opportunities. Sparkling Apps was founded to develop applications that cater to these opportunities. The founders, Roeland and Martijn van der Spek, have an exceptional technical background and both have over 25 years of experience in software development.
Our affinity for technology and our understanding of the requirements of our partners is combined with a strong long term experience with outsourcing. The strength of Sparkling Apps comes from this: we offer excellent quality in an economical package.
We are small and fast, but we still have a full development centre in India, with permanent Dutch management. This combination, together with our passion for outstanding quality and unique products, is quite unique. Be prepared to be amazed.
We have developed the firmware/operating system of the Travis translation device, of which mass production is starting today. Proud moment!
Sparkling Apps is using it’s ample experience combining the best online and offline translation engines to create the best translation device the world has ever seen!
Sparkling Apps is proud to be part of the Travis Translator team. Our first involvement in a crowdfunded project, and it immediately shows us the power of the medium. Over $175.000 committed within the first few days. Opens up possibilities!
Traffic Racing - Get ready for the most exhilarating handheld racing experience! Feel the intensity of “no brakes allowed” street racing with 2D racing visuals. Feel like a super car driver on the street. The only rule: do not crash your car! Traffic Racing is a milestone in the genre of endless arcade racing.
InstaCast - TV for Instagram allows you to share your favorite photos or videos from your Mac directly to your TV connected to the same network. Yes, straight to your big screen, no need for any additional hardware. You can also upload high resolution photos to Instagram.
WeatherRadar presents the current weather and predictions in an amazing way. WeatherRadar is fast, precise, and looks great. Use it to monitor the weather at any time, for any location in the world. Accurate, premium weather forecast data from Dark Sky.
With Bable, you can send messages to anyone, and they will receive it in their language, translated instantly. When they reply to you, you will get it in your own language. No need for your contacts to use Bable (although it would be nice!). It will work for them as regular SMS messages.
With VideoCast you can display them on any Smart TV, as long as it is on the same wifi network. So if you have any photos to share in a group, at a party or just want to view your photos in a big size, use VideoCast!
With ImageCast you can display them on any Smart TV, as long as it is on the same wifi network. So if you have any photos to share in a group, at a party or just want to view your photos in a big size, use ImageCast!
TuneCast gives you full control over all your music files and gives you the option to stream them to any Smart TV. No need for any additional hardware, just play the songs to your tv and enjoy them on your home music system instead of your mobile speakers.
MediaCenter - for Netflix and more lets you switch easily between Netflix, Dailymotion, YouTube and Vimeo through a menu option. No need to enter any urls. The player remembers your login credentials and ensures a smooth switch between the video providers. MediaCenter - for Netflix and more is your one stop destination for video content on your Mac.
Gaming in India and The Netherlands -Sparkling Apps is one of the selected Dutch representatives. The five day roadshow will help us connect to developers, designers and game publishers in India, find opportunities to collaborate with Indian and Dutch experts and identify Indian and Dutch partners with whom we can work to work creatively together on innovative game solutions to social challenges as well as working on casual games.
This visually stunning and feature rich application provides you with all the weather information you will need when you prepare for your next flight: METARs and TAFs with a twist, Wind Aloft, IGMETs, AIRMETs and outlooks, PIREPs, Clouds, ICE and tops, Sat images and analysis.
Translator Keyboard - Need to do a quick translation on your phone? Just add this 'translate' button to your keyboard. Translates into almost any language. Available in the app store now
Translator with Speech- We have added support for Apple Watch to our massively popular (over 3 million downloads) translator app. Not only does the Watch version translate to the most popular languages, it runs independently of your iPhone as well. And on top of that, it will speak out the translated text to you. If you have an Apple Watch, this is a vital addition. And if not, just get the app for your iOS or Android device.
Sky MET - The ultimate weather app for pilots, by pilots. This visually stunning and feature rich application provides you with all the weather information you will need when you prepare for your next flight.
Futies - lets you share video messages in the future. It is a fun and easy app to record video messages and send them to anyone……at any future date and time. Because Futies uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to sharing your video messages with friends, family and yourself.
Tell Age - New app launched. Take a photo or select one, and this app will try to find faces on the photo and guess their age!. We compare the face images with a large database of faces and ages online, and together with general features such as dark spots and wrinkles, we guess
SOLEcial is the first native application to provide a centralized network dedicated to all things sneaker related. Users can interact with friends, celebs, and sports figures; engage in an open stream of media content from the best sources across the web
The Play2TV SDK developed by Sparkling Apps for ZappoTV is now used by NBC in 11 apps: NBC New York, NBC LA, NBC Washington, etc. How It Works: By simply tapping on the Screencast icon in the app, users can send the video to any Smart TV at home to watch. No additional hardware required! At Sparkling Apps, we are extremely proud that our technology has been selected by this major broadcasting network. We are confident that our partnership with ZappoTV will result in further major successes in the media field in 2015.
Our apps have now crossed 5 million downloads. Thank you, Sparkling Apps users, for all your support!
Translator keyboard - We launched an easy translation tool for Android users: just add a 'translate' button to your keyboard.
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Sparkling Apps B.V.
Drapiersgilde 31, 3813GT Amersfoort
The Netherlands
+31 654 7060 96