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TikTok may be backbut that hasn’t stopped other Chinese competitors from gaining users. Ahead of the day-long ban on TikTok that began on Sunday, several other video apps have climbed the ranks and are now dominating the App Store’s Top Charts.
Chinese app RedNote (listed as Xiaohongshu in app stores) was the No. 1 app in the US last week, followed by video apps like Clapper, Flip and others. Monday, following TikTok is restoring the serviceAfter its acquisition of RedNote, it maintained its No. 1 position in the App Store attracted approximately 700,000 new US users.
of TikTok users Go to RedNote It was meant to send a signal to US lawmakers and Meta that they would rather join another Chinese app like TikTok than return to Instagram Reels.
Although TikTok is back online, the app stores they don’t post it for download yet; Despite President-elect Trump’s promise to extend the deadline for the TikTok ban, app markets must still comply with US law.
Instead, both app store top charts continue to reflect a shift to other TikTok alternatives.
For example, in Apple’s US App Store, video apps including RedNote, Likee, Clapper and Flip rank 1, 2, 4 and 10 on Monday morning’s Overall Top Charts. Favorite app dedicated to live broadcasts is in 15th place.
Social network Bluesky also just added an on-demand personalized video feed, but its app fell out of the top 10 position it held last week in the US App Store. As of Monday morning, it’s #13 on the App Store and #15 on Google Play.
Still, Bluesky gained a few more downloads thanks to the TikTok ban and still has 28.29 million users27.5 mln last week.
according to Estimates from app store intelligence provider AppfiguresRedNote, Flip, and Clapper all saw huge increases last week, from single-digit thousand downloads per day in early January to tens of thousands of downloads in the US on Friday.
And RedNote was getting hundreds of thousands of downloads.
RedNote achieved 818,000 new installs in the US on the App Store and Google Play during January 2025. A language learning app as the app is localized in Mandarin Duolingo also reported a 216% increase in US users I was trying to learn a language last week.
It is currently the #1 app in the US App Store and Google Play, excluding games.
Clapper, a TikTok alternative aimed at teens and adults 17 and older, had 646,000 downloads on Friday in the U.S. App Store and Google Play, adding 87,000 new downloads, or 1,030% more than the 7,000 new downloads it saw again. January 1, Appfigures reports. It is now the 4th best app on the US App Store and the 2nd best app on Google Play (excluding games).
Likee, a short video app, is ranked #2 on the US App Store and #3 on Google Play. Appfigures reports that it has seen a huge jump in the US App Store, going from No. 202 on Saturday to No. 2 at 3 a.m. on Sunday. In total, there have been 283,000 downloads so far in January. On Google Play, it rose to the 8th position on Sunday night for both apps and games, and has since fallen to 11th. Currently it is the 3rd app (excluding games).
Scoopz, a short video app for Android users, is ranked No. 4 on Google Play, while ReelShort, a short drama app, is ranked No. 7 on Google Play’s top apps list, excluding games.
Finally, Flip, which focuses on social commerce, saw 580,000 downloads in January, the data shows. (However, Flip ran a lot of TikTok ads over the past week, which led to those gains.) It’s No. 10 in the US App Store and No. 9 in the top charts excluding games on Google Play .
Despite many TikTok users saying they won’t use Instagram, the Meta app continues to rank high on both app stores, including the 8th spot on the US Apple App Store Top Apps chart and the 5th spot on Google Play’s Top Apps chart. he continued. until Monday morning.
VPN apps also saw a brief surge
After the TikTok ban went into effect, US users immediately tried to install VPN apps to bypass the restrictions. (TikTok’s mobile app is blocked even when using VPNs).
Again this drove temporarily A number of new US users to VPN apps like VPN – Super Unlimited Proxy, which rose from #91 to #3 in 36 hours. Another app VPN – Fast VPN Super climbed 155 places at the same time and Nord VPN took 9th place after climbing 160 places in the top charts.
Other apps that have seen hundreds of points overnight since the ban include X-VPN, Proton VPN, Free VPN .org and Express VPN.
The app store tables will soon change again as US users realize they can return to TikTok and decide to move away from at least some of their stock options for a change.
