TikTok clones from India, China and US fill the void

BENGALURU: Three weeks after the TikTok ban, homegrown short-video app Roposo, owned by InMobi, has shown the highest growth of almost 142% in new downloads in the race to fill the gap after the ban of the ByteDance-owned platform.

Interestingly, the other top two apps in the same space are from China (Zili by Xiaomi) and the US (Dubsmash) respectively, indicating the TikTok replacement is not entirely by local apps. This is based on data from SensorTower, which compared the growth of these apps during the three weeks before the ban of 59 Chinese apps and then three weeks after.