Musical.ly

Former Chinese social media service

Musical.ly was a mobile app available for phones where users could make short videos with music and slow motion. The videos would be sped up by the app to be at a normal speed. This allowed for lip syncing to be popular on the app. It is now known as TikTok.

Musical.ly
Original author(s)Alex Zhu, Luyu Yang
Developer(s)Musical.ly Inc. (April 2014–November 2017)
ByteDance (November 2017–August 2018)
Initial releaseAugust 2014; 10 years ago (2014-08)
Operating systemiOS, Android
Available in35 languages
List of languages
Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cebuano, English, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Persian, Odia, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
TypeVideo sharing
LicenseFreeware
Websitewww.tiktok.com