"In addition to bringing the complete functionality of the Tumblr Dashboard into our mobile apps, this is truly the most beautiful and fun way to browse media on these devices," Tumblr founder David Karp told us. "We're very excited to finally make it public!"
Karp gave us a sneak peek at the iPhone version of the new app and it looks pretty slick. "Photos, galleries, links, audio, and video, are presented perfectly –- and Tumblr's native features like reblogging, answer posts, replies, etc., are all included," Karp says. "It's also dramatically faster than our previous mobile Dashboard."
On a related note, Karp also told us that about 3% of the platform's overall traffic comes from mobile devices -- that's more than 80 million pageviews per month.
Tumblr released its iPhone app a year ago as an updated and re-branded version of the now-defunct Tumblerette app and the Android app hit just a few months ago. This update is not available for BlackBerry users yet.