A year after making its debut on iOS, Clubhouse is finally making its way to Android, albeit in beta form and only in one country. The company will "immediately" start rolling out Clubhouse for Android in the US.

Clubhouse has soared in popularity since the beginning of this year. It is an invite-only social media platform that lets you join a chatroom where you can listen to the speakers discuss specific topics.

Clubhouse for Android Is Currently in Beta

As mentioned above, the Clubhouse for Android beta app will only be available in the US for now. It will be rolled out to other English-speaking countries and then to the rest of the world in the coming weeks and months. The app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. If you are outside the US, you will get an option to pre-register for the app, which will notify you when it is available in your region.

The public beta release of the Clubhouse Android app comes just a few days after the company rolled out a rough beta to selected friendly testers.

In its current state, the Clubhouse Android app lacks a lot of features that are a part of the iOS app. In an FAQ, the company promises to add the following features to the Android app with future updates:

  • Topic following
  • Localization and in-app translations
  • Club creation or club management
  • Twitter account or Instagram account linking
  • Update name or update username in-app
  • Sidebar
  • Payments (currently U.S. only for iOS)
  • You can report someone from their profile but reporting via the recent speaker choice will be coming soon.

The Clubhouse team aims to add the missing features to the Android app and collect more feedback about it from the community to fix any major niggles before rolling it out widely.

Related: How Did Clubhouse Become So Popular?

Clubhouse Will Continue With the Invite System

A close-up of the Clubhouse app on a phone

While the Clubhouse app has made its way on Android, the platform itself still remains invite-only. This means if you have not been invited to Clubhouse by someone who is already on the live-audio social network, you won't be able to use it.

For now, the company says in an announcement on the Clubhouse website that it will continue with the waitlist and invite system to keep its "growth measured." Clubhouse is working on scaling its backend and plans to open up its platform even further, including adding support for new languages and accessibility features.

Clubhouse Feeling the Heat From Twitter Spaces

The Clubhouse Android app comes hot on the heels of Twitter expanding Spaces, its own take on live-audio networking, to anyone with over 600 followers. The company has been rapidly developing Spaces and adding new features to it, while Clubhouse has been missing out on further expanding its user base by limiting itself to just iOS devices.

Given that there are over 2.5 billion active Android devices out there, Clubhouse can further fuel its growth by simply launching an Android app, and the company has finally taken the first step in doing that.