TikTok Retires its Separate Notes App

RIP TikTok Notes. We hardly knew thee.

Lower than a yr after the launch of its separate photo-sharing app, TikTok is discontinuing the experiment, and shutting down TikTok Notes for all customers.

Effectively, all customers that might entry it, that’s, as TikTok Notes was solely ever made out there in sure nations.

As you’ll be able to see on this notification, shared by app researcher Jonah Manzano, Notes customers are actually being knowledgeable of the platform’s premature demise, which is approaching Could eighth. The notification additionally urges Notes account holders to take a look at its different app, Lemon8, in an effort to proceed their “inventive journey.”

Which is not any actual shock, as a result of as I reported when Notes was launched final April, it’s primarily the identical as Lemon8, simply with out the product focus (Notes under on the left, Lemon8 on the correct).

TikTok customers which have a linked Notes account are additionally being knowledgeable of the app’s pending demise.

Is it a giant deal?

I imply, in all probability not. TikTok wouldn’t be shutting it down if it was seeing any vital utilization, and once more, it was solely ever made out there in sure areas anyway, so most individuals in all probability do not even know what Notes is.

However primarily, this was an experiment, and an try for TikTok to increase its cultural impression.

The event of a separate, still-image-focused platform appeared to be sparked by the rise of the Instagram-like Xiaohongshu in China, with TikTok in search of extra methods to increase its market footprint, and veer into different areas.

However once more, Lemon8 is essentially the identical factor, and it looks as if TikTok now agrees with this.

So, no extra Notes app, for the few those who had been utilizing it.

One other social platform gone to the cloud, by no means to be accessed once more.