As a TikTok ban looms, Americans are starting to download RedNote. Here's what you need to know about the app.

TikTok users in the United States are fleeing the platform for another Chinese-owned app called RedNote (Xiaoshongshu in China). More than 700,000 new users have flooded the app since TikTok appears to be shutting down in the United States.

RedNote has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a likely imminent ban on the short video app in the United States.