Flipchat Android

TikTok's version of WhatsApp

Although WhatsApp is still the king of instant messaging and chat applications, surpassing the billion active user mark all over the world, it has plenty of competitors. Apart from Facebook Messenger, we have to mention Telegram, Viber, Kik, LINE or WeChat. But now there's a new player arriving from China, and not any old app: Flipchat developed by the guys behind TikTok.

Flipchat or Feiliao, TikTok's messaging app

The short-video social network that surprised us all with a platform plenty of others have tried to copy, has now released its own application to chat on Android. In China, it's called Feiliao, and it will probably end up reaching many more countries just like TikTok did back then. However, despite the growing competition for WhatsApp and the many alternatives available, it's still the most used messaging app in the world.

With this application, users can exchange messages with the rest of their contacts, as well as send files, send voice notes, enhance pics on the fly, create user profiles just like on a social network... in other words, just like in any modern-day messaging application.

Requirements and additional information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 5.0.
• The installation of the app by means of the APK file requires the activation of the "Unknown sources" option within Settings>Applications.