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TikTok may be backbut that didn’t stop other Chinese competitors from gaining users. At the time of the ban on TikTok – which began on Sunday and lasted for a day – a number of other video apps have risen in the ranks and now dominate the Top Charts of the App Store.
Chinese app RedNote (which is listed in app stores as Xiaohongshu) became the No. 1 app in the US last week, followed by video apps like Clapper, Flip and others. Monday, later The restoration of the TikTok serviceRedNote maintains its position No. 1 in the App Store, after having attracted about 700,000 new US users.
TikTok users go to RedNote it was intended to send a signal to US lawmakers and Meta that they would rather join another Chinese app similar to TikTok than return to Instagram Reels.
Although TikTok is back online, the app stores Not yet hosted for download; app markets still have to comply with US law, despite President-elect Trump’s assurances that he will extend the deadline for TikTok’s ban.
Instead, the graphs of the two app stores continue to reflect the shift to other TikTok alternatives.
In Apple’s US App Store, for example, video apps including RedNote, Likee, Clapper and Flip held the No. 1, 2, 4 and 10 spots on the Overall Top Charts as of Monday morning. Favorited, an app dedicated to livestreams, is #15.
Social network Bluesky also added an optional custom video feed, however, its app fell out of the top 10 it occupied last week in the US App Store. It is number 13 as of Monday morning on the App Store and number 15 on Google Play.
However, Bluesky gained a few more downloads thanks to the TikTok ban and now has 28.29 million usersfrom 27.5 million last week.
According to estimates from app store intelligence provider AppfiguresRedNote, Flip, and Clapper all saw massive growth last week from single-digit thousand downloads per day earlier in January to tens of thousands of US downloads on Friday.
RedNote, meanwhile, was getting hundreds of thousands of downloads.
RedNote gained 818,000 new installs in the United States on the App Store and Google Play during January 2025. Because the app is localized in Mandarin, the language learning app. Duolingo also reported a 216% spike in US users trying to learn the language last week.
Currently, it is the No. 1 app in the US in the US App Store and Google Play, excluding games.
Clapper, a TikTok alternative aimed at teens and adults 17 and older, earned 646,000 downloads on the App Store and Google Play in the U.S. Friday, 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 #4 top app (excluding games) in the US App Store and #2 on Google Play.
Likee, a short video app, is #2 on the US App Store and #3 on Google Play. It saw a massive surge in growth, moving from No. 202 in the US App Store on Saturday to No. 2 as of 3 a.m. Sunday, Appfigures says. In total, it has seen 283,000 downloads in January so far. On Google Play, it jumped to the No. 8 position across apps and games on Sunday night and has since fallen to No. 11. It is currently the No. 3 app (excluding games).
For Android users, the short video app, Scoopz, made it to the No. 4 position on Google Play while the short drama app ReelShort is No. 7 on the Google Play list of top apps, without the games.
Finally, Flip, which focuses on social commerce, grew by 580,000 downloads in January, the data shows. (However, Flip has also run several TikTok ads over the past week, leading to those gains.) It’s 10th in the US App Store and 9th in the Google Play top charts, excluding games.
Despite many TikTok users reporting that they no longer use Instagram, Meta’s app has continued to hold a high rank in both app stores, including number 8 in Apple’s App Store chart. United States and the 5th in the Google Play application chart. from Monday morning.
VPN applications have also seen a brief rise
After the TikTok ban came into effect, US users immediately tried to install VPN apps to work around the restrictions. (TikTok’s mobile app was also blocked when VPNs were used).
However, this driven temporarily number of new US users to VPN apps like VPN – Super Unlimited Proxy, which rose from app No. 91 to app No. 3 in 36 hours. Another app, VPN – Fast VPN Super, collected 155 spots in the same time, and Nord VPN hit No. 9 after collecting 160 spots in the top charts.
Other apps that have increased hundreds of spots overnight after the ban include X-VPN, Proton VPN, Free VPN .org, and Express VPN.
The app store charts are likely to change again as US users realize they can return to TikTok and decide to move away from at least some of their recent backup choices for a replacement.
