US EditionWhat Is UpScrolled? App More Popular than TikTok in Apple App Store
UpScrolled has surged with 41,000 downloads in three days amid TikTok's US technical issues and increased uninstall rates, attracting users seeking less restrictive moderation.
- Jan. 27, 2026: UpScrolled surged past TikTok on the Apple App Store amid user criticism over outages, privacy, and censorship, reaching top ranks in the United Kingdom and United States.
- TikTok's technical glitches and moderation complaints, including reduced visibility and alleged `shadowbanning`, pushed creators and users toward UpScrolled as TikTok blamed a data-center power outage.
- Appfigures estimates around 41,000 Upscrolled downloads in a single Thursday–Saturday window, contributing to about 140,000 total downloads including around 75,000 U.S. installs.
- Facing rapid growth, UpScrolled asked users to `bear with us` after servers 'tapped out', while Sensor Tower reported a 150 percent rise in TikTok uninstalls and about 2 percent DAU increase.
- Founded by Issam Hijazi last year and headquartered in Australia, UpScrolled markets itself as censorship-light and chronological, buoyed by TikTok’s U.S. buyout by Larry Ellison's Oracle Group and consortium.
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by Luca Grandicelli In the last few days, while TikTok concludes the reorganization of its activities in the United States under the supervision of a consortium led by Oracle, a large part of the users have started to look with interest at UpScrolled, the new social founded by the Palestinian-Australian developer Issam Hijazi. The first data of digital stores signal an increase in downloads and a temporary entry of the app in the high positions …
UpScrolled promises to be an impartial platform that will not drive political agendas through its users' feed
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The Columbus DispatchWhat is UpScrolled? App more popular than TikTok in Apple App Store
UpScrolled, a new social media app, has climbed ahead of TikTok in the Apple App Store.
Pro-Palestinian app Upscrolled tops charts, as users flee pro-Zionist TikTok
UpScrolled, the social media app set up by Palestinians was created to avoid the Israel lobby’s censorship-by-takeover of social media. Now, it is near the top of the app charts. This follows TikTok blocking all views of left-wing and anti-Zionist content. The Israel-donating, billionaire Ellison family’s take-over of TikTok kicked in this week, after TikTok’s Chinese owners divested to prevent the app being banned in the US. It was the major ap…
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