Google acquires Pixate to elevate app designs across mobile platforms

Google Inc. acquired mobile-application service Pixate, bolstering the search giant’s design team.

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed in blog posts from Google and Pixate.

Where Form makes it easy to get prototype apps running natively on iPhones and iPads, Pixate will speed up the design process across platforms. Among its clients include thousands of employees of top companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook.

He added that Pixate Studio would now be available for free with the price of Pixate’s cloud service “dramatically reducing”. Pixate will also not face any interruptions to any of their already existing services and will still exist as a standalone product. A version that lets teams collaborate will cost $5 per designer a month, or $50 per designer a year.

The company has its origins in Y-Combinator, a massively popular American seed fund. It raised $3.8 million in Series A financing from Accel Partners in 2013. Fortunately, Pixate joining Google doesn’t mean that the relatively new company will disappear in a near future as some previous Google acquisitions have, Pixate will take advantage of Google’s strong support and bring some of its big ideas to the design community at scale. Relative Wave uses Visual Programming language in the backend for the development of prototype apps.

As of right now, no dollar amount has been placed on this acquisition, but since Google is always trying to help developers create better apps for users, even those on iOS, they can spend whatever they see fit if you ask me.