Duolingo shares climbed 10% this week as Americans turn to Chinese-language social media app RedNote and rush to learn Mandarin ahead of TikTok's ban slated for Sunday.

Popular language learning platform Duolingo Inc. (NASDAQ: DUOL) has been a key benefactor just from the threat of a TikTok ban. American Users Desperately Trying to Learn Mandarin to Use RedNote ...

Despite the sudden surge in popularity, RedNote is not a 1:1 alternative for TikTok. Still, it does a great job of filling a similar niche to what TikTok users look for in a social media app.

In the meantime, TikTok users have started migrating to Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, a Chinese social media app that is similar to TikTok. RedNote was the No. 1 free app being downloaded in ...

Duolingo has seen a 216 percent increase in Chinese lessons. Rednote has also introduced in the past week a button to translate comments into English and other languages.

Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu, or RedNote as it is known in English, is a Chinese social media platform growing in popularity as an alternative to TikTok, but with the same security risks.

Unlike TikTok, which sometimes seems governed by inscrutable algorithms, RedNote puts control back into the hands of its users. However, RedNote is not without its challenges.

Like many other “TikTok refugees,” as they’re called on RedNote, Jewish creators posted excitedly to RedNote, introducing themselves and their content to a new audience.

The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to protest the looming U.S. government ban on TikTok.

Some are sticking with TikTok for the time being, while others are looking elsewhere — for example, RedNote, another Chinese-owned company, which has mostly been used in China.