Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian
mobile application developer, founded in 2013 and based in
Milan. The company is known primarily for
iOS mobile apps, including Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz, and Remini. In November 2022, it agreed to acquire
Evernote. Bending Spoons is one of the world's leading mobile developers, by number of app downloads.
On 17 April 2020, the
Italian government released a statement on its website announcing that Bending Spoons had been selected to design and develop Italy's official
COVID-19 contact tracing app,
Immuni
Immuni was an open-source COVID-19 contact tracing app used for digital contact tracing in Italy, dismissed on 31 December, 2022, after a long and debated criticism for having been a failure due to the lack of trust placed by citizens. Immuni COV ...
. Bending Spoons granted the government a perpetual and irrevocable license for Immuni, free of charge.
The app was released on 1 June 2020. It was initially released in four
regions, then countrywide.
Awards
* 2020: Top 10, Best Workplaces™ in Europe
* 2019, 2020: Winner, Best Workplaces™ (50–149 employees) in Italy
* 2022: 2nd place, Best Workplaces™ (150–499 employees) in Italy
* 2019: Winner, Best Workplaces™ for Women in Italy
* 2019, 2020, 2021: Winner, Best Workplaces™ for Millennials in Italy
* 2019: 2nd place, Best Workplaces™ for Innovation in Italy
Immuni
Immuni is Italy's official
contact tracing app in the battle against the
COVID-19 pandemic. Bending Spoons designed and developed Immuni under the direction of the Special Commissioner for the COVID-19 Emergency, the
Ministry of Health Ministry of Health may refer to:
Note: Italics indicate now-defunct ministries.
* Ministry of Health (Argentina)
* Ministry of Health (Armenia)
* Australia:
** Ministry of Health (New South Wales)
* Ministry of Health (The Bahamas)
* Ministry of ...
, and the
Minister for Technological Innovation. Bending Spoons granted the government a perpetual and irrevocable license for Immuni, free of charge.
The Immuni project was announced in a press release on the Italian government website on 17 April 2020. Italy's Prime Minister
Giuseppe Conte discussed the Immuni project in a televised press conference on 30 April 2020. Immuni was awarded the maximum five stars by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s
MIT Technology Review Contact Tracing Tracker in May 2020.
With Immuni, Italy was the first major European nation to launch a contact tracing app, and it received 2.2 million downloads in its first ten days since launching on the
App Store and
Google Play Store on 1 June 2020.
The name
In a 2019 interview with
Forbes ''Leader's Talk'', Bending Spoons co-founder Luca Ferrari stated:
Other notable activities
Bending Spoons has published open source libraries on
GitHub. As of June 2020, its modern
Swift framework "Katana" has received over 2,000 stars.
Bending Spoons runs annual
bootcamps for promising students. These include First Ascent International, First Ascent Italy, and First Ascent Business
See also
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COVID-19 apps
References
External links
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Italian companies established in 2013
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