Founded in 2014 by brothers Antoine and Michel Morcos, the company first came into the public eye later that year, through its port of the open-source game 2048.

When Ketchapp was acquired by Ubisoft in September 2016, the company had more than 700 million downloads across their portfolio of games.

[2] In March 2014, the company cloned Gabriele Cirulli's open-source puzzle game 2048 and published it as an iOS app, with advertising and in-app purchases.

[11] On 27 September 2016, French video game publisher Ubisoft announced that they had acquired Ketchapp.

The app received seven million downloads in the first two weeks after it was released,[13] as a result of which Ketchapp set up a Fanfiber store to sell limited edition Ketchapp-branded fidget spinners.