5 Asian Startups That Caught Our Eye This Week

As we gear up for our Startup Asia Jakarta this week in Indonesia, we’ve been keeping an eye on startup news elsewhere in Asia as well. This past week we had some fascinating apps from China, Japan, and Singapore that we hope you will find interesting!

1. The Remember App Creates, Curates, and Celebrates Your Family Memories

Here’s a really fun startup from Singapore that targets what might be an underserved market. The Remember app is aimed at helping families share photos among each other in a closed group.

2. Cairnsmith Communicates Your Interior Design Ideas

Speaking of underserved markets, there are more than a few people in the interior design industry who wish they had a better solution for sharing their design ideas and concepts. Created by Sheer Industries Group, Cairnsmith lets you draw out your concepts using its ‘mainframe software’ and then sync it to a mobile device so you can show clients.

3. Miyoo: A Social Fashion App to Snap, Tag, and Share What You Wear

China’s Miyoo app is a creative social fashion application that lets users create a virtual catalogue of their wardrobe. It’s currently available for iOS only, and it will be interesting to see if it can compete with similar services or Pinterest-like sites in the Chinese market.

4. Japan’s SnapDish Now Available Worldwide for Android

We’ve had our eye on Japan-based SnapDish for some time now. And this week we were pleased to see that the company has pushed out an Android application, in addition to the iPhone app which it previously had. The service is a great way for those who love food and cooking to share photos of their tastiest creations.

5. Create and Share Photo Stories with Mooklet

Perhaps my favorite startup from this week is Japan-based Mooklet, whose iPhone photo story application is planned to go live tomorrow. We had a preview of the service this past week, and were pretty encouraged by the sharp appearance of the resultant photo book. While many of us get by with iPhoto journals, this is intended to be an app where users can create more complex stories which depend more on text.