Lemon8 is a social media app that is like a cross between Instagram and Pinterest, and is the sister app of TikTok. Both apps were developed by the China-based company ByteDance, who also own the video editing app, CapCut, and the photo/art editing app, Hypic.

“Even if the U.S. bans TikTok specifically, Bytedance — the parent company — is already migrating users to a competing very similar app that it also owns called Lemon8,” Josh Constine of the venture capital firm SignalFire told CNN. “And so it wouldn’t solve the problem unless we basically ban all of ByteDance’s apps.”

As the TikTok ban could take effect at the end of the week, another ByteDance-owned app has climbed the rankings in the Apple App Store: Lemon8.

Users are migrating to other video apps as a ban on TikTok looms closer. With a TikTok ban looming, some users are scrambling to find a new destination for trending videos.

Chinese social apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 have soared to the top two spots on Apple's iPhone charts ahead of the U.S.'s impending TikTok ban.

As TikTok moves closer to being kicked out of the U.S., two Chinese apps — Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, which shares parent company ByteDance with TikTok — have blitzed to the top of the Apple App Store. As of Tuesday morning,