It is already flying over the heads of users in the United States the TikTok banone of the most used apps currently in the world and of which ByteDance itself has had to come out to deny a possible purchase by the owner of X (formerly Twitter).
And if there is a generation that has grown up with TikTok, it has been generation Z, who found themselves with a regulation approved by the US Congress in April of last year so that ByteDance had to look for a buyer for its vertical video social network.
Days before it ends up being banned in the United States, the app’s users are pushing certain not so well-known apps to the download tops in Google and Apple stores.
One of those that is benefiting the most is RedNote or Xiaohongshuwhich is currently number one in downloads and is very similar to TikTok in its concept.
An app that also comes from China and is gaining a lot of popularity because many of the content creators on TikTok have started doing so since RedNote in order to show their experience with this new app that seems destined to be the new TikTok.
The new ‘TikTok’
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The main screen is divided into three tabs that are located at the top: the first for the content of the users you follow, the central one for recommended content and the third by location (you will have to accept the relevant permissions).
Once Opening a video goes directly to the TikTok experience itself in which they pass one after the other as they finish or a downward gesture is made. Here the same sensations that made the ByteDance app so popular are transmitted.
The same thing happens with the buttons on the bar. located in the lower right part to like the video, comment on it, follow it, forward it or share it to another social network to feel almost at home.
How to configure it to English
The app is available at Google Play Store and the App Store, although the language will have to be changed to Englishsince it is an app that is in Chinese by default; The first steps after installing it are common (Google account registration and some buttons that are easy to identify even if they are in Chinese).
How to put English in the RedNote app
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In EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre we have added a screenshot showing how to do it to enjoy a TikTok-like experienceAlthough the home screen is divided into two columns, choose from four videos and then move on to the familiar experience.
The only thing left is that more content generators and TikTok users move to RedNote so that there is more variety according to Engadgetsince now there is a good compendium of content that comes from China and that which is being generated by the new creators from the United States who have switched to this app.
A very curious momentaccording to The New York Timesdue to the way in which TikTok users have taken the ban of one of the most installed apps and with the greatest engagement of the planet: the rebellion of continuing to use a Chinese app that imitates what TikTok has been during these years.
