Google is closing file sharing apps Bump and Flock, just a few months after acquiring their maker, Bump Technologies.

Bump CEO and co-founder Daniel Lieb said in a blog post that the apps will be removed from Apple’s App Store and Google Play on 31 January as the development team is “now deeply focused on our new projects within Google”.

After this date, the downloaded versions of the apps will stop working and all user data will be deleted. Users will be given instructions about how to export their data.

Bump allows smartphone users to share data with other smartphones and PCs by tapping them together, while Flock uses location information to create photo albums that can be shared with nearby friends.

When it was announced that Google was acquiring Bump Technologies in September last year, Lieb said both apps would continue to work in the same way, with future updates likely.

“The Bump team has demonstrated a strong ability to quickly build and develop products that users love, and we think they’ll be a great fit at Google,” a Google spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal following the announcement of the acquisition.

Apple released a similar file-sharing technology called AirDrop in September, while Samsung offers an app similar to Bump called S Beam on some of its devices.

Newer versions of Google’s Android mobile OS offers a feature called Beam which allows data — such as bookmarks, contact information, directions and YouTube videos — to be transferred between smartphones using NFC to pair the devices.

However the service is limited as NFC is not supported by all smartphones.