News from Reincubate

Digging into the options available for contact tracing apps built without recourse to Apple's iOS 13.5 frameworks

In this post, we look at Houseparty, the risks that come with using it, and what you can do in simple steps to avoid sharing anything that you’d rather keep private.

We conducted research into when users are most active on dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble, Grindr and Hinge, to help you find the best time to get a date. Time is of the essence when it comes to online dating: the quicker you act, the more likely you are to move forward.

We conducted an experiment by examining the phones and Netflix data of 5 avid watchers to see what data was stored. The study reveals the data that Netflix keeps and tracks on user devices, and found that on average, users spend 58 hours watching Netflix on smartphones or tablet.

Online data collection is increasingly insidious and continuous. This article aims to help you protect your data by making you aware of how your data is vulnerable, and we share some tips on what you can do to help keep your data secure.

We're pleased to announce the launch of Reincubate Lookup for iOS and iPadOS. As of today, it's available as a free app in the App Store.

Despite press coverage to the contrary, Apple’s recommendations for regulating children’s behaviour with Screen Time are effective in ensuring Screen Time isn't removed without a parent's involvement.

We’re excited to be launching Reincubate Lookup today. It addresses a question that we’ve run into many times over the years: given a serial number or IMEI from an Apple device, can we effectively identify it, and what it's capable of?

We’re going to be shuttering awdit in the coming weeks. Parts of it will live on internally in our other products, and we’ve been doing some planning for a follow-up awdit product which I hope will see the light of day. If you’ve been a user or a fan of awdit, thank you.

Reincubate's flagship product, iPhone Backup Extractor — built using Reincubateʼs ricloud API — was used in the making of several series of Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, a popular TV series featuring detective and investigation stories based on real stories.