Instagram has launched Edits, a new video-editing suite, claiming it outperforms CapCut, developed by TikTok's ByteDance.

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

Filling in that void for a lightweight video editor. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp for the latest stories and breaking news. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, took to the platform to announce the new video editing app

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.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri just announced a video editing app called Edits. Mosseri said the app is meant to rival CapCut, a video editing app that went offline along with TikTok. Edits is available for preorder on the iOS App Store.

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.

Instagram has made changes in recent days that appear to be aimed at attracting TikTok users while the short-video app’s future remains in limbo.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has unveiled a new app called Edits, designed to rival ByteDance’s popular video editing app CapCut, which briefly went

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applications missing from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the US thanks to a ban (which looks set to be repealed by President Trump once he is sworn in), Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta has swooped in to scoop up content creators left adrift.

US ban might have ended but several other apps that were caught in the crossfire are still yet to make a comeback at the time of writing due to their Bytedance affiliation. Marvel Snap was taken out,

The tool is slated to be released on March 13, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced. TikTok has since restored service in the US.