As a potential US ban hangs over TikTok and its American users, several social media apps have topped the app store charts.

Apps like Xiaohongshu, Lemon8, Clapper and Flip made the top five of Apple and Google's respective app store rankings for “Most Free” apps in the US on Thursday morning.

Two of the apps—Xiaohongshu and Lemon8—have been in particular focus.

Lemon 8 According to TikTok's latest press release, it allows users to “discover and share useful content about beauty, fashion, travel and more” through photos and videos.

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belongs to Chinese technology company TikTok is behind ByteDance. Some of Lemon8's interface has similarities to Instagram and Pinterest.

The Lemon8 app on a smartphone in Brooklyn, New York on Friday, March 31, 2023. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu has been operating since 2013. The program, nicknamed RedNote, is co-founded by Charlwyn Mao and Miranda Good.

“Xiaohongshu is a lifestyle platform that inspires people to explore and connect with different lifestyles, where more than 300 million users share their life experiences every month,” according to its description on the Apple App Store.

The logo for Xiaohongshu is seen on an Apple Inc iPhone in Shanghai on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Raul Ariano/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)

As of Thursday morning, the U.S. ranking in the Apple and Google app stores was No. 1 for free apps.

USA based social media app According to its website, Clapper is “focused on bringing local and global videos to all people.” It has capabilities like video, live streaming and radio.

In a blog post, it said its features make it “the perfect candidate to replace TikTok” should the ban happen.

Flip was also ranked in the US app store rankings for the best free apps.

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It's a “social shopping app for discovering and shopping” with videos, Flip said on its website. The app currently only works in the US

The app's high ranking on the app store charts has TikTok users confused about the potential ban of the ByteDance-owned app in the US and what other apps they should adopt.

Instagram, YouTube and other popular social media apps also offer short-form video opportunities that could attract TikTok users considering new platforms in the event of a US ban.

Photo illustration of US online social media and social networking services. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images/Getty Images)

The threat of a TikTok ban stems from a law signed by President Biden last year that seeks to ban the platform in the United States on Sunday unless ByteDance withdraws.

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Lawyers for the government and TikTok presented oral arguments in a case based on a potential ban. Supreme Court late last week — and the nation's highest court has been considering how to rule on it ever since.

The bill to ban TikTok in the US focuses on apps and websites controlled “directly or indirectly” by ByteDance, TikTok and its subsidiaries.

A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to give up TikTok, the popular short-form video app in the US, or face a ban. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/File Photo/Reuters)

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More than 170 million people in the US use TikTok. Led by CEO Shou Chew, the program launched in America in 2018.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, Lemon8 and other apps like CapCut and Lark, was founded in 2012.