After tips of it were spotted drifting around in the primary app over the last couple of weeks, TikTok has now formally introduced its brand-new, devoted photo-sharing app, called “TikTok Notes”, with users in Australia and Canada able to download the different image app.
As you can see in these images, TikTok Notes is a standard photo-sharing app, with images and their descriptions as you can currently discover on TikTok, however collected into their own area.
As described by TikTok:
We hope that the TikTok neighborhood will utilize TikTok Notes to continue sharing their minutes through image posts. Whether recording experiences, revealing imagination, or merely sharing pictures of one’s day, the TikTok Notes experience is developed for those who want to share and engage through picture material.”
The app design is similar to Pinterest, while likewise bearing resemblances to TikTok’s eCommerce app “Lemon8,” which it released in 2015.
It looks nearly precisely like Lemon8, without the item focus.
As you can see in these images, it’s a sort of staggered tile display screen of images from TikTok, with a great deal of them not actually making as much sense without the wider context of TikTok’s video feed, though that’ll preferably alter with time, as users publish more to the app particularly.
User profiles likewise look a lot like TikTok, with the very same fundamental design, in addition to some cool neon colored icons.
In regards to publishing, you can amount to 34 images to a single post, with the images provided as a side-scrolling, carousel-like collection. You likewise have a 4,000 character caption limitation, together with a title area.
Which is something, I think, however today, it’s a relatively dull app, like TikTok, however without the important component that makes TikTok engaging, being brief videos.
Like, does anybody actually desire this?
I think, for TikTok, it’s seeking to branch off into brand-new locations, and try out extra formats and choices in order to possibly take advantage of brand-new chances.
It likewise follows the success of Tencent-backed Xiaohongshu in China, which is basically a regional variation of Instagram. That’s seen a huge increase in the Chinese market, which has actually likewise broadened into eCommerce chances.
Relatively, TikTok’s wishing to duplicate that with Notes in Western markets. In Western markets, we currently have Instagram, so the method is not totally clear.
In any occasion, it’s another experiment, which TikTok will be intending to utilize to widen its footprint.
Will it work? Most likely not, however perhaps it captures on, and supplies a brand-new outlet for developers.