It is already flying over the heads of users in the United States the ban on TikTokone of the most used applications currently in the world and which ByteDance itself had to speak out to refuse a possible purchase by the owner of X (formerly Twitter).
And if there's a generation that grew up with TikTok, it's Generation Z, who found themselves with a regulation approved by the US Congress In April last year, ByteDance had to look for a buyer for its vertical video social network.
Days before it was banned in the United States, users of the app are push some lesser-known apps to the top of downloads in Google and Apple stores.
One of those who benefit the most is RedNote on Xiaohongshuwhich is currently number one in downloads and which is very similar to TikTok in concept.
An application that also comes from China and is gaining a lot of popularity because many content creators on TikTok started doing it from RedNote in order to show their experience with this new application which seems destined to be the new TikTok.
The new “TikTok”
Free Android
The main screen is divided into three tabs located at the top: the first for the content of users you follow, the central one for recommended content and the third by location (you will have to accept the corresponding authorizations).
Once Opening a video takes you straight to the TikTok experience itself in which they pass one after the other while finishing or gesturing downward. Here the same sensations that made the ByteDance application so popular are conveyed.
The same thing happens with the bar buttons. located at the bottom right to like the video, comment on it, follow it, forward it or share it on another social network to feel almost at home.
How to configure it in English
The application is available on the Google Play Store and the App Store, although the language will have to be changed to Englishsince it is an application that is in Chinese by default; The first steps after installation are common (registering a Google account and some buttons that are easy to identify even if they are in Chinese).
How to put English in the RedNote app
Free Android
In EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre we added a screenshot showing how to enjoy a TikTok-like experienceAlthough the home screen is divided into two columns, choose from four videos, then move on to the familiar experience.
The only thing left is that more content generators and TikTok users are switching to RedNote so that there is more variety depending Engadgetsince there is now a good collection of content that comes from China and those generated by new creators from the United States who have opted for this application.
A very curious momentaccording to the New York Times, due to the way TikTok users took the ban on one of the most installed and used apps. engagement of the planet: the rebellion of continuing to use a Chinese application that imitates what TikTok was during these years.
