Facebook launches TikTok rival Collab; make short music videos - all you must know

Amid the growing anti-China sentiment, social media giant Facebook has launched a new app that allows users to make short music videos together and it is set to rival TikTok. Called Collab, the app promises to offer a new approach to collaborative music making, enabling people to create music videos split into three simultaneous parts. 

All parts of the video have the same song played on different instrument, only to be stitched together later to create a full performance. The app will allow friends or strangers to collaborate to create a song together, or a user can provide all three clips themselves.

The new app has been developed by Facebook’s product experimentation division. Just like TikTok, Collab also asks users to post the videos on the platform before they can be used anywhere else. Collab will also allow videos uploaded to the platform to be edited and remixed by users. The app will also allow people to create videos solely from other users’ clips without uploading anything of their own, so you don’t have to be musical yourself to get involved.

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As of now, the app has been launched as an invite-only beta on iOS but can soon be rolled out for all. The app follows the lead of TikTok in allowing its users to freely borrow and recreate others’ content without needing permission. 

The Chinese video sharing app has been facing some flak from internet users over the last few weeks, especially in India. This had app’s ratings dropped to as low as 1.2 stars on the Google Play Store. However, the tech giant has removed several negative reviews after which TikTok’s rating shot up to 4.4.