TikTok’s upcoming Instagram competitor app for sharing pictures may very well be named TikTok Notes, in response to screenshots posted by customers. TikTok additionally confirmed the app was in growth.

Over the previous couple of days, TikTok customers have been getting pop-up notifications a couple of new TikTok Notes app to share pictures.

The notification says that the corporate is launching “a brand new app for picture posts” referred to as TikTok Notes quickly and customers’ present picture posts will probably be shared on the app. Customers can select to not share their picture posts to the brand new app too.

TikTok confirmed that it’s engaged on the app, however specified that it’s not accessible but.

“As a part of our continued dedication to innovating the TikTok expertise, we’re exploring methods to empower our neighborhood to create and share their creativity with pictures and textual content in a devoted area for these codecs,” a TikTok spokesperson advised TechCrunch.

Individually, a TikTok-owned URL picture.tiktok.com (internet archive hyperlink) exhibits a placeholder advertising picture with the textual content “Open in TikTok Notes.”

Picture Credit: TikTok

Final month, code and language discovered within the TikTok APK file — an installable file format for Android— prompt that the corporate has been working to launch a photo-sharing app referred to as TikTok Photographs.

Nonetheless, the newest pop-ups inside TikTok counsel that the corporate could be contemplating one other identify for the app.

Each TikTok and Meta are fiercely competing over social media area. Whereas the ByteDance-owned app is prepping to launch an app associated to photo-sharing, Meta rolled out a vertical-first video participant for Fb.

TikTok can also be experimenting with completely different codecs like 30-minute-long movies and even textual content posts like X and Threads.