CapCut is a free video-editing platform created, owned and operated by ByteDance. It was launched in the U.S. in 2020. It was the second most downloaded photo and video app in the Apple App Store after Instagram, according to USA Today.

The clock is Tikking. Instagram is making a host of sweeping changes in a bid to attract TikTok users as the future of that app hangs in the balance. TikTok temporarily shut down after the Supreme Court upheld a law that required ByteDance to divest its stake in the company by Jan.

Apple said apps developed by ByteDance and its subsidiaries would no longer be available for download or updates on the US app store from Sunday.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri just announced a video editing app called Edits. Mosseri said the app is meant to rival CapCut, a video editing app that went offline along with TikTok. Edits is available for preorder on the iOS App Store.

Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri introduced Edits, the platform’s new video-editing app. Apart from TikTok, it looks like Instagram is also trying to compete with other apps offered by ByteDance. Instagram intends to compete with ByteDance’s CapCut, a video-editing application that went offline in the US alongside TikTok.

TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below.

Capitalizing on TikTok's brief absence, Instagram is seeking to entice video creators with large cash bonuses to start posting Reels.

The short-term TikTok ban also included other ByteDance-owned apps and Meta has already seized the opportunity by announcing a new competing app.

Instagram has launched Edits, a new video-editing suite, claiming it outperforms CapCut, developed by TikTok's ByteDance.

With popular applications missing from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the US thanks to a ban (which looks set to be repealed by President Trump once he is sworn in), Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta has swooped in to scoop up content creators left adrift.

Instagram is launching a new app, Edits, that will immediately become a CapCut competitor when it launches next month. You can pre-order the app on the Apple App Store now, with Google Play Store availability to follow.