Mosseri announced Edits the same day that CapCut, a ByteDance-owned mobile video editing software, was also banned alongside TikTok in the U.S. Sunday. "Now, there's a lot going on in the world right now and no matter what happens,

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.

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applications missing from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the US thanks to a ban (which looks set to be repealed by President Trump once he is sworn in), Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta has swooped in to scoop up content creators left adrift.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

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

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

Social media platform Instagram has announced a new video editing app called Edits, as TikTok restored services in the United States after

Meta's attempt to lure creators to its platforms comes as questions remain over the future of its main rival in the US.

Instagram Is Launching a New Video Editor Called Edits . Instagram has announced that it's launching a new mobile video editing app, and that it will be ready for release within t

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.