

The two products are similar, but features are not identical. Their servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available. TikTok and Douyin have almost the same user interface but no access to each other's content. TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China however, it became available worldwide only after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018. TikTok is an international version of Douyin, which was originally released in the Chinese market in September 2016. It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance, and entertainment with durations from 15 seconds to ten minutes.

TikTok, known in China as Douyin ( Chinese: 抖音 pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese company ByteDance.
