Instagram announced on Sunday that a new video editing app will be hitting the app stores soon, hours after the ban on TikTok came into effect.

Instagram has announced Edits, a free video editing app that sounds a lot like CapCut. In a video posted to Threads on Sunday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri described Edits as a "full suite of creative tools," and briefly ran through its planned features.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has unveiled a new app called Edits, designed to rival ByteDance’s popular video editing app CapCut, which briefly went

A lot is going on in social media lately. The sudden ban on TikTok has had a huge effect on its users in the USA. In the meantime, on the same day, Instagram has announced a special software.

The short-term TikTok ban also included other ByteDance-owned apps and Meta has already seized the opportunity by announcing a new competing app.

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

Edits is 'hoping not just to be an editing tool but an entire full suite of creative tools for those of you who are passionate about making videos on your phone,' IG Head Adam Mosseri says.