TikTok may soon be banned in the US. Its sister app Lemon8 is a little different, but could be a great alternative.

Tik-Tok, Cap Cut and Lemon-8 have officially been banned in the U.S.The ban, that was set to come into place on Sunday, January 19, was enacted Saturday evenin

The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale.

As content creators and people who enjoy watching TikToks are seeking another app, I downloaded Lemon 8 to see if it could be a possible replacement.

“Even if the U.S. bans TikTok specifically, Bytedance — the parent company — is already migrating users to a competing very similar app that it also owns called Lemon8,” Josh Constine of the venture capital firm SignalFire told CNN. “And so it wouldn’t solve the problem unless we basically ban all of ByteDance’s apps.”

Some TikTok alternatives — including newish contenders Lemon8 and RedNote — shot to the top of app download lists this week as people wait on official news from the Supreme Court, the company and even the app stores and internet service providers that may soon have to enforce a ban.

Think twice before signing up for a TikTok competitor. I took a look at the types of data that popular social apps are collecting about you, and they aren't much better.

TikTok has become a cultural phenomenon. But the app is set to shut down in the U.S. in two days after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ban of the app. “I really thought they were either going to punt it or say,