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How much does it cost to make an app like a TikTok?

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Question added by Diesel Brian , Mobile App Developer , Mobile Studio
Date Posted: 2021/12/02
Lucya Smit
by Lucya Smit

I love watching tiktok. A lot of people say it's a waste of time, but for me these videos are like a way to relax and unwind. In general, I often find quite useful videos on Tiktok. In order not to lose them, I download videos without a watermark at Snaptik, and save them on my phone to review at the right time. Usually these are some tips or recommendations. Have a full collection now and it helps a lot.

Venessa Hickson
by Venessa Hickson , Mobile Application Developer , Mobile studio

TikTok is a popular short-form video creation platform that allows creators to use in-app tools to create an amazing short video in small time duration. TikTok became popular because the focused time span of viewers has drastically reduced over time, they want quality entertainment or education in quantity. So that they can learn or view more things in a short time as there is abundant content available on all the social network platforms.

With the increase in online content generation and new content creators emerging day by day the focus span is only going to reduce, not sure how much less than TikTok’s seconds.

With the increased demand for short-form video content creation platforms like TikTok, the query regarding finding out the cost to make an app like TikTok has increased for developers like me.

Finding out the cost to make an app like TikTok is not a simple question that could be derived in a Quora answer as it requires a detailed study of the reference app (In this case TikTok) and the app features, tech stack that is viable for your app.

TikTok is a large app that serves a wide customer base as well as hass of filters that creators can use to create entertaining and engaging content. So does replicating the exact app like TikTok make sense from a business perspective as you need to offer something unique that will make your app stand out from the competition.

Factors that will impact the cost to develop an app like TikTok

1. App Features

The app feature classification involves listing the smallest of features that would be required like a signup/login in the app to the most important and complicated one like Feedback or content creation tools. The most important and must features required in-app like TikTok can be referred to below:

· Login/SignUp

· Likes, comments, share, Save

· Offline Download

· Profile Management

· New theme and audio upload feature

· Swipe for new content

· Check out all the content by a particular creator in their profile tab.

· Location tabbing to a piece of content

· The algorithm that will show content based on your past engagement

2. Filters for Content Creation

TikTok has become a mature app over time as it has or probably thousands of filters that you can use to create content. So the initial analysis of the type of filter to be implemented is a complex decision as you would find most of the filters important but it is not viable to launch all of the filters at once.

3. Tech Stack for Efficient performance

Once you are done selecting the Features and filters for your TikTok like App Development, you would need to choose a Backend Tech Stack that will help in managing the traffic and performance of the app in all situations.

The best tech stack an app like TikTok can possess can be referred below

Based on the above parameters the cost to develop an app like TikTok can be derived as $K - $K.

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