# TikTok Retires its Separate Notes App

RIP TikTok Notes. We hardly knew thee.

Lower than a yr after the launch of its separate photo-sharing app, TikTok is discontinuing the experiment, and shutting down TikTok Notes for all customers.

Effectively, all customers that might entry it, that’s, as TikTok Notes was solely ever made obtainable in sure nations.

As you’ll be able to see on this notification, shared by app researcher Jonah Manzano, Notes customers are actually being knowledgeable of the platform’s premature demise, which is approaching Might eighth. The notification additionally urges Notes account holders to take a look at its different app, Lemon8, so as to proceed their “artistic journey.”

Which isn’t any actual shock, as a result of as I reported when Notes was launched final April, it’s primarily the identical as Lemon8, simply with out the product focus (Notes beneath on the left, Lemon8 on the precise).

TikTok customers which have a linked Notes account are additionally being knowledgeable of the app’s pending demise.

Is it a giant deal?

I imply, in all probability not. TikTok wouldn’t be shutting it down if it was seeing any important utilization, and once more, it was solely ever made obtainable in sure areas anyway, so most individuals in all probability do not even know what Notes is.

However primarily, this was an experiment, and an try for TikTok to broaden its cultural influence.

The event of a separate, still-image-focused platform gave the impression to be sparked by the rise of the Instagram-like Xiaohongshu in China, with TikTok searching for extra methods to broaden its market footprint, and veer into different areas.

However once more, Lemon8 is essentially the identical factor, and it looks like TikTok now agrees with this.

So, no extra Notes app, for the few those who have been utilizing it.

One other social platform gone to the cloud, by no means to be accessed once more.