TikTok is copying Instagram again with Whee

TikTok precocious launched a caller Instagram-like photo-sharing app called Whee, arsenic spotted by Android Police and APKMirror laminitis Artem Russakovskii.

TikTok is explicitly positioning Whee arsenic an app for sharing photos with lone your closest friends. “Capture and stock real-life photos that lone your friends tin see, allowing you to beryllium your astir authentic self,” according to Whee’s Google Play description. “Whee is the champion spot for adjacent friends to stock beingness moments.”

Screenshots of the app listing diagnostic things similar a photograph viewfinder, a database of friends to message, and a provender — and galore of the photograph captions item however the features are for connecting with friends.

It seems that TikTok is inactive investigating the waters with this caller app. It’s presently disposable connected Android successful “more than a twelve countries,” but not the US, Android Police reports. I’m besides not seeing it connected the iOS App Store. TikTok and genitor institution ByteDance didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

This isn’t TikTok’s archetypal app that appears to instrumentality immoderate inspiration from Instagram: successful April, the institution started rolling retired an image-sharing app called TikTok Notes.