TikTok’s takeover within the US has prompted customers to affix another social platform referred to as UpScrolled. The app, which is on the market on Android and iOS, at the moment holds the 12th spot in Apple’s App Retailer, and it’s struggling to maintain up with an inflow of recent site visitors.
UpScrolled was founded in 2025 by Issam Hijazi, a Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian technologist, with the purpose of giving users the ability to “freely categorical ideas,” whereas “making certain each submit has a good probability to be seen.” Its web site says the platform will stay “neutral” to political agendas, gained’t shadowban customers or content material, and can “uphold social accountability.” The app’s interface seems to be like a combination between Instagram and X, permitting you to submit and uncover images, movies, and textual content posts, in addition to write non-public messages to different customers.
This isn’t the primary time we’ve seen such a big name to modify to different social networks, as TikTokers flocked to apps like RedNote in response to the TikTok ban final yr, whereas other networks, like Bluesky and Mastodon, emerged as common spots for folks trying to get away from X.
