Like any cloud-based software service, Postman includes a news feed that provides updates for the ongoing development of an API, and it syncs data to the cloud.
(That app hasn't been updated on Android since then, though the iOS version was updated last year to sync data via Google to different devices).
As the startup made clear in its blog post today, its new Android app will include automatic syncing, allowing users to sync data from their bands wirelessly to their dashboard.
To use Bync, users sign up and add credentials for their banks and credit cards, again similar to Mint, and it will then begin to sync their data to see which deals they would be interested in.
"If you could store your data on your mobile device, you could get very fast response times, and then whenever you did have an internet connection you could sync your data to the cloud".
Chrome's flipped switch also now means users have to take Google's word for it that it won't suddenly auto sync their data to its own servers — say by making another opaque change, in the future, to further automate the harvesting of users' personal data.
For a monthly charge, you can sync the data to the cloud.
Cloutex currently supports nine so-called "connectors" — i.e. third party services that it can sync data from and to — but has ambitious plans to expand that number out to hundreds.
Currently, it won't be able to sync data or push notifications to the Bing apps on other platforms, but Microsoft says this functionality is coming soon.
Datownia offers a way to sync data, which can make it easier to build out the apps users need.
