The power of TikTok to influence us with its viral videos, and make us fools along the way, seems to have no limits. However, at least this time it has served to a curious and interesting application is crowned as the most downloaded in the Apple iOS store. In fact, it has been placed for some time above two apps that always dominate that podium lately, WhatsApp and TikTok itself. we tell you what the application is about and why it has become famous, because, surely, you will also want to download it.
TikTok, the trendy Chinese social network, is helping to shape our society, mainly through silly videos and pointless or downright dangerous challenges.
But for once it seems has contributed to the success of something good. In this case, an interesting apps for iOS that has been placed, thanks to the viral videos of TikTok, in the number 1 most downloaded free apps at the Apple store.
Locket, the app to put a photo of your friends as a screen widget
The application in question is called Locket and it couldn’t be simpler and more ingenious at the same time. What it does is allow you to place a widget on your iPhone screen with changing photos of your friends, or live photos, as its creator says.
That seems silly, but it becomes a kind of mini private social network, where you can share those photos with your loved ones. In fact, if you keep putting and changing those photos, your friends and those you love can see what you are doing directly on the screen of their iPhone, or know about you and be a little closer.
The curious origin of Locket, the fashion application for iPhone
The idea for the app came to Matt Moss, a former Apple Worldwide Developers Conference fellow.
Locket, who has just graduated from college, admits that it was a personal project And I didn’t mean for it to become a apps for all. In fact, he did as a birthday present for his girlfriend, that he was going to study abroad and they were going to be separated.
Moss thought having a photo of himself on the screen would be nice, and so have the thousands of users who are downloading it en masse. The couple used extensively the apps for months, exchanging about five photos a day, which they could see just by looking at the screen of their iPhone and thus knowing about the other.
Since Locket also stores sent and received photos in its history section, the apps it also became a fun way to look back at photos.
Number 1 in downloads thanks to TikTok
@locketcamera It’s been so much fun seeing everyone use Locket 💛 We can’t wait to keep making the app with your help. #locket #locketwidget #locketapp #widget
♬ original sound – Locket
Without Moss intending or planning, the application, which was officially released on the iOS store with the beginning of the year, began to be viewed and shared on TikTok videos. And thanks to that, he began his rise to dethrone the usual titans, WhatsApp, TikTok and Facebook. Some of those videos, like the one from an English user, have reached more than 5 million views in a very short time.
As we can see, and for once, TikTok has served as something useful. We will see if this positive trend continues, although I would not bet money, really.
