TikTok ban: Marvel Snap and 5 different apps additionally banned

Within the night hours of Jan. 18, American customers somberly checking TikTok one final time earlier than the app’s ban within the U.S. went into impact discovered that their entry had already been revoked.

TikTok’s mum or dad firm pulled entry to the favored video sharing app lower than two hours earlier than it was anticipated to go darkish. The app’s 170 million lively customers within the U.S. now as a substitute see an eyebrow-raising pop-up extolling the potential of president-elect Donald Trump saving the app. Regardless of the stunning timing of TikTok’s shut down, it adopted months of legislative and authorized battles unfolding proper up till the day the “Defending Individuals from International Adversary Managed Functions Act,” was set to enter impact. What many hadn’t digested, nevertheless, was how the U.S. legislation, which targets any “international adversary managed utility,” would result in different standard apps getting yanked, too.

ByteDance, the mum or dad firm of TikTok and the only specified firm within the invoice, eliminated its apps and related platforms instantly earlier than the U.S. legislation went into impact — a glimpse of the true scope of the China-owned firm’s affect in U.S. customers’ digital diets. Different foreign-controlled apps, or these affiliated with corporations deemed international adversaries, might certainly comply with.

Listed here are the most important apps now not obtainable within the U.S. as a result of ban, as of Jan. 19:

TikTok Studio, TikTok Store Vendor

Along with the principle platform, ByteDance has eliminated its secondary TikTok choices for creators and corporations, together with TikTok Studio (a video creation and scheduling device) and TikTok Store Vendor Heart (a administration platform for companies promoting on TikTok Store).

Marvel Snap

Marvel Snap, a well-liked card sport battler with hundreds of thousands of gamers within the U.S., was an surprising casualty of the TikTok ban. Whereas created by California-based developer Second Dinner, the sport is printed by ByteDance-owned Nuverse. Different Nuverse-published video games, like Earth: Revival – Deep Underground and Ragnarok X: third Anniversary are nonetheless obtainable for obtain for now, the Verge studies. Nuverse didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark.

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CapCut

A preferred video-editing app utilized by fancam makers and meme editors throughout the web (and on TikTok), CapCut was pulled from the U.S. app retailer. Many had anticipated and warned customers that the app, additionally owned by ByteDance, could be affected by the ban.

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Lemon8

TikTok’s Lemon8, initially touted as a hybrid Pinterest-meets-Instagram social media different, was additionally axed within the late hours of Jan. 18. Since its launch in 2023, amid early debate of banning its mum or dad app, Lemon8 had grown in recognition amongst health and wellness creators.

Hypic

Hypic is ByteDance’s free photo-editing providing, closely promoted on TikTok as an appearance-focused photoshopping device. It additionally allowed TikTok customers to use AI-powered face filters to their movies.

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Lark, Lark Crew Collaboration, Lark Rooms Show, Lark Rooms Controller

ByteDance-owned Lark is a productiveness suite for companies created as a competitor to Google Workspace. The suite, together with secondary controller and presentation apps, was faraway from U.S. marketplaces.

Gauth

Gauth, initially referred to as GauthMath, is an AI-powered research app created by ByteDance and one of many hottest training apps on the Apple App Retailer. The app reached 200 million customers worldwide in 2024.

Different apps

Apps standard in worldwide markets have been additionally pulled within the wake of ByteDance’s crackdown. These embrace Melolo, a brief type video app run by Poligon and standard in Southeast Asia; Fizzo, Poligon’s e-book platform; and Tokopedia, an e-commerce web site standard in Indonesia. Poligon is a Singapore-based subsidiary of ByteDance.

Notably, RedNote (Xiaohongshu) remains to be obtainable for obtain from the U.S. app retailer, regardless of being a Chinese language-owned platform topic to China’s knowledge privateness and censorship legal guidelines. Within the lead-up to TikTok’s banning, many customers have flocked to the video-forward platform as a possible different.