In the evening hours of January 18, American users are frantically checking TikTok The last time it was known that they had access was before the app was banned in the US Already canceled.
TikTok’s parent company pulled access to the popular video sharing app two hours before it was expected to go dark. The app’s 170 million active users in the US now instead see an eyebrow-raising pop-up extolling President-elect Donald Trump’s potential to secure the app. Despite the surprising timing of TikTok’s shutdown, it lasted months legislative And legal The battles are brewing until the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Anti-Terrorist Controlled Applications Act” is set to go into effect. However, what many people didn’t digest was how the US law, which targets any “foreign hostile controlled application”, would lead to the digestion of other popular apps as well.
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company and a featured company in the bill, has removed it Apps and related platforms Immediately A glimpse of the true scope of Chinese-owned company influence in US consumers’ digital diets – before the US law took effect. Other foreign-controlled apps, or those affiliated with companies considered anti-foreign, may surely follow.
Here are the top apps now available in the US due to the ban starting January 19:
TikTok Studio, TikTok Shop Seller
In addition to the main platform, ByteDance has rolled out its secondary TikTok offerings for creators and companies, including TikTok Studio (a video creation and scheduling tool) and TikTok Shop Seller Center (a management system for businesses selling on the TikTok Shop). platform) are included.
Marvel Snap
Marvel Snap, a popular card game battle with millions of players in America, was a c Unexpected loss Of the TikTok ban. While created by California-based developer Second Dinner, the game is published by ByteDance-owned Nuverse. Other Nuverse-published games, eg Earth: Revival – Deep Underground And Ragnarok X: The Third Anniversary are still available to download for now, the edge Reports Nuverse did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
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CapCut
A popular video-editing app used by fancam producer And meme editors across the internet (and on TikTok), CapCut was pulled from the US App Store. Many had expected and warned users that the ByteDance-owned app would also be affected by the ban.
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Lemon 8
of TikTok Lemon 8Originally introduced as a hybrid Pinterest-meets-Instagram social media option, was also shut down in the late hours of January 18. Since its launch in 2023, Lemon8 has grown in popularity among fitness and fitness creators, amid the initial debate of banning its original app.
Hypic
Hypic is ByteDance’s free photo-editing offering, heavily promoted on TikTok as a look-focused Photoshopping tool. It also allowed TikTok users to apply AI-powered face filters to their videos.
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Lark, Lark Team Support, Lark Room Display, Lark Rooms Controller
ByteDance-owned Lark is a productivity suite for businesses built as a competitor to Google Workspace. The suite, which includes secondary controllers and presentation apps, was removed from US markets.
Goth
Goth, originally known as GothMath, is an AI-powered study app developed by ByteDance and is one of the The most popular education apps on the Apple App Store. The app reached 200 million users worldwide in 2024.
Other apps
apps Popular in international markets was also pulled in the wake of ByteDance’s crackdown. These include Mello, a small form video app run by Polygon and popular in Southeast Asia; Phyzo, Polygon’s e-book platform; and Tokopedia, an e-commerce site popular in Indonesia. Polygon is a Singapore-based subsidiary of ByteDance.
in particular, RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Despite being a Chinese-owned platform, it is still available for download from the US App Store Data privacy and censorship laws. In the lead up to TikTok being banned, many users have flocked to the video-forwarding platform as a potential alternative.
