Now Chinese apps are the most popular. New and old Chinese apps are grabbing the world's attention. Chinese apps such as 'Deepsic', 'Rednote', 'Lemon Eight' have not only emerged as alternatives to American apps such as ChatGPT, Instagram, Messenger, Snapchat, but these Chinese apps have started to be highly praised for being able to give excellent results despite being made at a low cost.

Users are also rapidly gravitating towards Chinese apps.

On the other hand, China's established applications such as Tiktok, Capcut, WiChat, PUBG, and Cascanner have always been in the news due to lawsuits, bans, and exemptions in various countries. Lately, there has been confusion about the future of TikTok in America. The app, which was shut down for some time on January 19, got a 75-day deadline after Donald Trump became the new president. During this period, Tiktok will either have to sell its US business to non-Chinese investors or close its US operations.

When TikTok was shut down for a short time, American users flocked to another Chinese app, RedNote. It was considered interesting that users looking for an alternative to Tiktok started downloading a Chinese app called 'Xiaohongsu'. They have also given the English name to this app as 'Red Note'. Founded in 2013, the app is one of the largest social media platforms in China. It currently has 300 million monthly users. It is also called the Instagram of China.

Trump has offered ByteDance to sell 50 percent of TikTok's US ownership to local investors and keep 50 percent for himself. If this is not accepted, Tiktok will face the threat of ban again in the second week of March. Now there are reports that US entrepreneurs are interested in buying TikTok from big Silicon Valley companies. Only on Wednesday, Trump said that the US tech giant Microsoft is ready to buy TikTok.

According to the Associated Press, the American AI company 'Perplexity AI' has recently offered to merge TikTok with its American operation Perplexity. Famous YouTuber Mr. Beast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, has started discussions with some investors to buy TikTok, his spokesman Matthew Hilzik told AP.

From Elon Musk, the world's richest man, to American entrepreneur Frank McCart, Kevin O'Leary, the investor of SAARC Tank America, many have expressed their desire to buy Tiktok's American ownership. Although buyers are interested, ByteDance does not want to sell Tiktok shares. In particular, ByteDance seems reluctant to share its 'algorithm'. There are 170 million TikTok users in the US alone.

The number of TikTok users worldwide is estimated to be around 2 billion. While the Tiktok controversy in the US is not over, another Chinese app 'Deepsik' has also created waves in the stock market and economy there. Share prices of American technology companies such as Nvidia, Meta fell sharply after the rise of Dipsic AI Assistance. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google and Meta's new AI models are being promoted as being much cheaper to build and operate. 

However, now OpenAI and its partner company Microsoft have started an investigation with the suspicion that Deepsik prepared its database using OpenAI's data in an unauthorized manner. Microsoft researchers claim to have discovered a large data leak through OpenAI's 'API' some time ago. They suspect that it may be related to Dipsik. US official David Sachs has also claimed to have found "solid evidence" that Dipsic relies on OpenAI's model.

With the geo-political competition between the government and businessmen, there is a dispute about the apps, but the users seem to be happy with the Chinese apps. They have responded that apps like Tiktok, Deepsik, Sein are 'total'. Bloomberg columnist Tyler Cowen wrote, "I'm not an active user of TikTok, but no other American video sharing platform has built such a magnetism." The video editing tool 'Capcut' made by ByteDance, the parent company of

Tiktok, is extremely popular not only in the US but all over the world. According to the Wall Street Journal, it has 200 million monthly active users worldwide. From calls, messages, group chats to digital payment (payment) and even food delivery in the app, 'Vichat' is considered to be a dynamic example of a super app in the world.

How popular are Chinese apps? Even though India closed 59 Chinese apps in 2020, the well-known technology site 'Rest of the World' has published investigative news about apps like CamScanner still running there. Since the Election Commission of India, the Revenue Department and other government and constitutional bodies have been found to be scanning government documents using the CamScanner app. 

"Even if you don't want to download the app, you can use the camscanner from a mobile phone that has already been downloaded," journalist Ananya Bhattacharya wrote, quoting an expert, "This app also works offline, so the ban will not affect it." Although there are alternatives to CamScanner like Google Drive, iPhone's camera app, Adobe and Microsoft Lens, some users seem to prefer this app.' 

With nearly 1.1 billion internet users, China itself is a big user of mobile apps. In 2023 alone, more than 113 billion apps were downloaded in China. The Chinese app market is now worth more than US$53 billion. The Chinese government has been encouraging Chinese apps, which have such a large customer base domestically, to spread outside the country and increase users internationally.

During his recent Chinese New Year speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping praised China's progress in the field of technology, including Chinese apps. Speaking with Trump on January 18 before taking the second oath as the US president, Chinese President Xi said that the problems faced by the Chinese app and technology sector, including TikTok, became a major topic, which shows how important technological advancement is for neighboring countries.  As the founder of