TikTok is again on-line within the U.S. in the interim, however its future stays unsure. Whereas many apps have been scrambling to appeal to TikTok customers and creators, a bookmarking backup service known as Dewey has launched an answer that saves your favourite TikTok movies and permits you to entry them at any time — even when TikTok disappears once more.
Initially launched to assist customers manage their Twitter bookmarks (earlier than the social community’s rebranding to X), Dewey has since expanded to incorporate quite a lot of instruments for backing up bookmarks and saves from different social media accounts, together with Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, and Reality Social, in addition to your browser bookmarks. Help for Reddit and Instagram can also be within the works, in keeping with the corporate’s web site.
The group was prompted to refocus on TikTok forward of its Sunday shutdown. Although President Trump prolonged the shutdown scheduled for Jan. 19 by 75 days, it’s unclear what TikTok’s future will appear to be. Will it kind a three way partnership with U.S. possession to keep up its market share right here or will it select to exit the nation if it could possibly’t stay an impartial firm?
Dewey co-founder Tom Harari instructed TechCrunch the group started engaged on an emergency resolution for backing up TikTok bookmarks final week and continued their efforts over the weekend to launch the brand new product. Notably, it’s the primary time Dewey has supported a video-focused social community on its service.
With at this time’s launch of the TikTok backup resolution, Dewey customers can pull all their TikTok Favorites and Collections (folders for saved movies) immediately into their feed, permitting them to save lots of these movies perpetually — or for so long as Dewey exists, that’s. TikTok Collections can even be given their very own devoted folders in Dewey’s sidebar for simple entry.
The addition follows different current expansions that features assist for social apps like Threads and Reality Social, in addition to a function that allows you to filter bookmarks by date, the flexibility to export your information, and assist for Markdown export (*.md), which lets customers join their bookmarks to different instruments, like writing app Obsidian.
Dewey is a free service to be used with one account, then affords paid plans beginning at $7.50 per 30 days for backing up limitless accounts. Paid plans additionally supply different options like computerized syncing, superior search, export options, and extra.
