Meta Sunday announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple's App Store and the Google

Meta has released an alternative to CapCut. The popular video-editing app was temporarily shut down the night of Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, following a TikTok ban. As AFROTECH previously reported TikTok’s parent company,

Update: CapCut, Marvel Snap and other ByteDance apps have returned to the US (at least for now). They may still be banned if a sale doesn't go through again but for the meantime you can enjoy CapCut and forget all about Instagram's upcoiming Edits app. The original story continues below.

With the fate of TikTok, CapCut, and other Bytedance-owned apps in limbo, here are some video editing tools to use in the meantime.

Instagram has unveiled a new video editing app called Edits, which aims to fill the void left by CapCut's removal from U.S. app stores

With TikTok and its video editor CapCut potentially on the way out, Meta recently announced a new video editing app dubbed 'Edits'

Instagram has unveiled a new mobile app called Edits, designed to help creators easily shoot and edit videos on their smartphones.

Meta announced its upcoming new video editing app called Edits after President Donald Trump restored TikTok in the US. Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared details regarding the upcoming app on Threads.

Hours after TikTok was pulled in the United States, Meta seized the opportunity and unveiled a new Edits app. It's intended to be a replacement for CapCut, the editing app by TikTok owner ByteDance, as well as TikTok's built-in video editor.