This article showcases our top picks for the best South Korean based Mobile Apps companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Mobile Apps industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top South Korean Mobile Apps Startups
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Toss
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Toss is a mobile finance platform used to simplify the payment procedure.
Woowa Bros
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WOOWA BROS is a Korean developer of smartphone applications and advertising platforms.
O-House
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O-House is a one-stop home furnishing and interior design platform enabling customers to easily source & purchase goods for their homes.
Contents First
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The team behind Tappytoon, premier digital-first comics platform & daily destination for 4+ Million readers worldwide. English/French/German
ProtoPie
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The easiest interaction design tool for all digital products, allowing designers to build highly interactive prototypes.
CeREELs
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Mobile Media App with a library of original contents
Kakao Games
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Kakao Games is a KaKao gaming subsidiary, serving various genres of games including PC and mobile.
IGAWorks
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Full Stack ad-tech company for digital marketing
WASHSWAT
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Washswat is a laundry service that washes and dries the laundry that is operated by specialized facilities and personnel.
Everspin
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Cybersecurity company that invented the world’s first dynamic security module.
Goodoc
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Goodoc is a Korean smartphone app providing medical services such as information on doctors, their rates, contact numbers, and more.
Scatter Lab
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Scatter Lab is a text-based Korean sentiment analysis service which is available as a smartphone application.
Remember
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Remember is a developer of business card organizer app.
StudioBside
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StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
Violet
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Violet provides you the easiest way to edit and share videos
5minlab
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5minlab is a PC/mobile game development company based in Seoul, South Korea.
Vingle
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Vingle is an interest-based community platform available via mobile and web, where users can mingle together through shared interests.
Quantec
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Quantec provides an asset management platform for everyone on a daily possibility.
Melephant
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Melephant aims to create a new video entertainment culture.
Soulgit, Inc.
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Soulgit is a mobile game publisher and premium marketing agency.
amazer
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amazer is a fun video battle platform for content creators.
Share & Care Co., Ltd.
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Share & Care Co., Ltd. is provides social networks and mobile app services.
Plask
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Plask is a Korean startup developing mobile apps, like Believe My Brother, Girlfriend, and Alfredo.
Add2paper
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Add2Paper is a Korean mobile app that offers an online paper for college students to post advertisements on printing services.
Flaskon
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Flaskon is a Korean mobile game development studio.
macaron TAXI (KST Intelligence)
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macaron TAXI (KST Intelligence) is a cab chauffeur app
TNDN
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TNDN is tourism app aimed at Chinese tourists traveling to South Korea.
Emotive
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Emotive is a Korean company that develops Moodclip, a smartphone application.
Linkage
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Linkage is a Korean startup providing web development, web design, and mobile application services.
TimeCast
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TIMECAST is a smartphone app development and consultancy company offering entertainment content and social networking services.
Holla Company Inc.
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Contents Making Factory of the couple, by the couple, for the couple
Trance Studio
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Stylish action game developer in South Korea. Well-known developers of DNF(Biggest revenue maker of Tencent and Nexon) and Lineage Eternal.
INSOMENIA
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INSOMENIA is a Korean startup offering a social mobile shopping app.
WaHome
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WaHome is a home cleaning service matching platform.
Woman’s Talk
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Woman’s Talk, Korea’s is a first online mobile beauty home shopping.
Washon
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Washon is an on-demand laundry service based on Seoul metropolitan area in Korea.
CSS99
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CSS99 is a Korean startup providing mobile application and mobile content on topics related to beauty and fashion.
COOLJAMM
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COOLJAMM develops musical AI engine that composes various styles of music.
Sketchware
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Sketchware is a Scratch-like block programming based Android app development platform on an Android smartphone.
WishLink
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WishLink develops mobile shopping services such as Cacao Style, an advertising, brokerage and e-commerce platform for personal shopping.
Easyworks Universe
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Easyworks Universe is a Korean-based startup company engaged in the development of Planet Jack, a web portal for designers.
Greysox
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GreySox is a Korean design company developing mobile applications such as the music apps String Trio, Drum Meister, and Finger Stomp.
Banksalad
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Banksalad is a fintech company that develops financial applications.
Botem
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Botem creates state of the art human recognition sensor devices that determine people’s movement direction.
Jienem
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Jienem is a guesthouse accommodation service specialist and catering for Chinese tourists.
PAY:WATCH
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PAY:WATCH is a mobile application for advance payment and instant payment.
TrafficGem Corp.
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TrafficGem is a Korean app-based global video ad platform that operates as a collective intelligence and imagination-based society.
ThumbAge
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ThumbAge engages in the development of role playing and action games for mobile devices.
NOTA
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NOTA is a promising startup that focuses on edge-device AI solution which doesn’t need any server or cloud for AI systems.
BOMAPP
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Bomapp is a Seoul-based insurtech startup that offers fully digital insurance experience to consumers.
Greenmonster
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Greenmonster offers a cloud-based iOS diary application to improve multimedia writing capacity within a single app interface.
Highbrow
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Highbrow is a mobile game and app developing company that created the popular mobile game Dragon Village.
Fast campus
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Fast campus are Unity game creation / startup / UX Design CAMP during the Early Bird Discount!
Flero Games
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Flero Games is a mobile game development company.
Factorial Games
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Factorial Games is an IT company specialized in mobile games and software development services.
Life Semantics
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Life Semantics is an engineering company based in Korea focused on developing hospital information systems for the medical industry.
FLO
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FLO is a music application that provides wide range of songs.
Pictosoft
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Pictosoft is an application development company that creates mobile games for Android and iOS
Dreamfora
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Dreamfora is a smart goal setting & managing app that helps you achieve your goals.
Acornsoft
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Acronsoft is a company that develops Cloud Native Application Platform which is a computing environment for future application development.
Deeping Source Inc.
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Privacy and Copyright Protection for Machine Learning
Genie Music
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Genie Music is a provider of music streaming services.
FORCETELLER
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FORCETELLER is a mobile app for online entertainment services.
Bapul
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Immediately Solve is a question-and-answer platform that enables users to ask and answer study-related questions.
FreeFi
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FreeFi is a platform that connects to public and secured WiFi at business places without any touch.
UBpay
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UBpay offers payment processing via coupons and loyalty cards.
TINAC
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TINAC Inc. is a mobile app developer company which has developed apps like Aurora Forecast. They develop Apps on iPhon
Couchgram
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Couchgram is a mobile app that requires you to unlock your phone in order to receive your calls.
LINE FRIENDS
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LINE FRIENDS is a global sticker character brand and creative studio.
TEUIDA
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TEUIDA is a mobile app that provides video content and pronunciation training.
GOPAY
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GOPAY is a payment application that rewards TENA coins through payment.
Rocket
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Rocket is a mobile app for college students that updates real-time external activities and contest information.
Donordonut
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Donordonut is a smartphone application that enables users to share and donate goods and money to create social value.
Dr.Diary
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Dr.Diary offers diabetes management application services.
INAVI Systems
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INAVI Systems provides real-time navigation solutions.
BravePops Company
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Bravepops Company is a Korean-based company focused on developing mobile apps for the early learning sector.
The TechBill
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The TechBill is a mobile app development company.
Oyster able
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Oyster able develops mobile apps for IoT recycling solutions.
Wehomes
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Wehomes is a mobile application that offers interior design and quotation services.
Uracle
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Uracle is a software and mobile app development platform.
Weddell
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Weddell is providing information about healthy pregnancy and childcare products.
Nine
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Nine is the solution for managing business applications that includes email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes all in one place.
PLATFOS
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PLATFOS is an operator of a cloud-based mobile voucher platform designed to transmit and use mobile products.
Cufit
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Cufit is an essential mobile application for bike riding.
HEYSTARS
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HEYSTARS develops AI-based Korean conversation education applications using K-culture contents.
Springworks
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Springworks provides software development, mobile application development and web services.
Richcall
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Richcall is a complex customer management application.
dodo
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dodo provides systematic management and after-sales service.
Treenod
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Treenod is a Korean mobile software company developing smartphone apps such as the puzzle games PokoPang and PATAPOKO Animal.