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GuaGuaLong
APP
Dead
ByteDance's cartoon-dragon tutoring app for kids 2-8. China's 2021 "double reduction" crackdown gutted it; ByteDance later shut it for good.
Fanqie Music (Tomato Music)
APP
Rebranded
ByteDance's free, ad- and coin-supported music streaming app. It launched in November 2022 as 番茄畅听音乐版 (a music module within the Fanqie audio platform) and was upgraded into a standalone app named 番茄音乐 in November 2025.
Fanqie Changting Music Edition / Tomato Audiobook Music Edition
APP
Rebranded
ByteDance's free, ad/coin-supported music streaming app, launched mid-November 2022 as a music-focused spin-off of the 番茄畅听 (Tomato Audiobook) platform.
Douyin Supermarket
SVC
Merged
抖音超市 (Douyin Supermarket) was ByteDance's self-operated online grocery/FMCG channel inside Douyin E-commerce, modeled on JD Supermarket and Tmall Supermarket, using ByteDance-built warehouses and a mixed self-operated/consignment fulfillment model with same-day delivery.
8th Note Press
SVC
Dead
ByteDance's US book imprint, built to sell #BookTok romance and YA. After ~2 years and 30-odd titles it barely used its TikTok reach and closed in 2025.
Doubao-PixelDance
SVC
Merged
ByteDance's AI video model, from its Make Pixels Dance paper, launched under the Doubao brand for multi-shot clips. Folded into the Seedance model line in 2025.
TikTok Notes
APP
Dead
TikTok's photo-and-text app, a grid-feed Instagram rival. Tested only in Canada, Australia and Vietnam, it closed in 2025; ByteDance pushed users to Lemon8.
Melolo (Melolo - Short Dramas & Reels)
APP
Banned
Melolo is ByteDance's first overseas free short-drama (micro-drama) streaming app, launched mid-November 2024 in SE Asia (Indonesia, Philippines) and modeled on its China-domestic app Hongguo Short Drama.
Naruto: Peak Showdown
GAME
Dead
An officially Naruto IP-licensed 3D open-world action RPG mobile game for which ByteDance's gaming subsidiary Chaoxi Lightyear (Nuverse) held exclusive China distribution/publishing rights.
Mytopia (MyTopia - My Utopia of Novels / MyTopia Books)
APP
Rebranded
Mytopia was ByteDance's overseas English-language web-novel reading app, launched Nov 11, 2021 (US/UK) under its Singapore subsidiary Poligon Pte. Ltd.
Writingo (Volcano Writing)
APP
Merged
火山写作 (Writingo) was ByteDance's free AI writing assistant for Chinese and English text, built on ByteDance's self-developed Yunque (云雀) large language model.
TikTok Music
SVC
Dead
ByteDance's paid music service and Resso's successor, tied to TikTok. ByteDance closed it after 16 months to steer listeners to Spotify and Apple Music.
Dragonheir: Silent Gods
GAME
Shut down
Dice-driven open-world RPG with a Dungeons & Dragons crossover, from ByteDance's Nuverse. US servers closed in 2024 as ByteDance quit gaming; Tencent took the IP.
Hippo Aixue (renamed Doubao Aixue)
APP
Rebranded
河马爱学 (Hippo Aixue) was an AI-powered homework-help / study app launched by ByteDance's Dali Education (大力教育) ZERO team in January 2024, targeting K-12 students with photo-based question answering, homework/mental-math/essay grading and Q&A.
TikTok Lite Rewards
SVC
Dead
A watch-to-earn feature in TikTok Lite paying users points to watch and invite friends. EU regulators flagged addiction risks; ByteDance pulled it in 2024.
Xuelang
APP
Merged
ByteDance's online-learning app, launched in 2020 and later rebuilt as a Douyin creator-course tool. The standalone app closed in 2024, absorbed into Douyin Classroom.
Sponge Music (formerly Sponge Band)
APP
Rebranded
A ByteDance mobile music-creation app first launched on 16 May 2022 as 海绵乐队 (Sponge Band), a recording-studio / vocal-optimization / one-click-Remix / auto-Mashup editing tool serving Soda Music and Douyin users.
Paopao Xinxuan / Zhuazhua Xinxuan / Guodong Xinxuan (Bubble / Paw Paw / Jelly Heart Select)
SVC
Dead
A trio of in-app-purchase (IAP) interactive-drama mini-programs embedded inside the Douyin app, developed by ByteDance's commercialization unit Ocean Engine (巨量引擎) and launched in early 2024 to test paid interactive/branching short-drama content monetized via in-app "看点" credits and memberships.
Zhu Xiaobang
APP
Merged
住小帮 (Zhu Xiaobang) was ByteDance's one-stop home-decoration and interior-furnishing content-and-services platform, launched September 2018 (originally named 生活始末).
Momoyu
APP
Dead
摸摸鱼 (Momoyu) was ByteDance's casual / instant-play mini-game platform ("game box") launched in April 2021. Users played lightweight casual games and earned a virtual reward token called 小鱼币 (Xiaoyu coins / "little fish coins") by completing tasks (browsing/launching/rating games, joining player…
LetsChat
APP
Dead
ByteDance's light WhatsApp rival for young Africans. After three years and ~7M downloads it never escaped WhatsApp; ByteDance closed it in 2024.
Warhammer 40,000: Lost Crusade
GAME
Dead
Warhammer 40,000 strategy mobile game from ByteDance's Nuverse. Its global servers closed in February 2024 when ByteDance wound down Nuverse.
Zhuhaojia
SVC
Dead
住好家 (Zhuhaojia) was ByteDance/Douyin's self-operated (自营) one-stop home-renovation service, offering whole-house design, standardized construction, and after-sales guarantees both online (within the 住小帮 app) and via an offline store in Beijing's Chaoyang district.
Resso
APP
Dead
ByteDance's social music app for emerging markets, built around scrolling lyrics. Folded into TikTok Music abroad; India pulled it in 2024 after a data probe.
Baike Mingyi (Baike Famous Doctors)
SVC
Merged
An authoritative online medical encyclopedia / health-science content platform, founded May 2010, that held China's largest independent-copyright medical knowledge graph and was the sole designated website for the National Health Commission's authoritative medical popularization project.
ChitChop
APP
Dead
ChitChop: ByteDance's overseas AI-assistant app, twin of China's Little Wukong, with 200-plus bots for work, study and creation. Quietly shut down in 2024.
Xingfuli (Happy Home)
SVC
Merged
幸福里 (Xingfuli) was ByteDance's real estate listings and transaction platform. It originated from Toutiao's property channel, launched in 2018 as 好房多 (Haoduofang), and was renamed 幸福里 in 2019.
Legend of the Spirit Cat
GAME
Dead
Chinese-style otome game from ByteDance's Nuverse, mixing cat-raising with five suitors. After losses Nuverse passed it to the developer; it closed on 2023-12-31.
Pico 5
HW
Dead
ByteDance's planned next VR headset, to follow the Pico 4. After weak Pico 4 sales it quit the Meta Quest fight and scrapped the Pico 5 in 2023; it never shipped.
Shandian Search
APP
Dead
A short-lived ByteDance search app built on Toutiao's content. It lasted barely three months before stalling at its 2023 update and vanishing from China's app stores.
Everphoto
APP
Dead
Everphoto (时光相册) was a Chinese intelligent cloud photo-album app offering AI face-recognition auto-categorization, encrypted cloud backup, and shared albums, and went viral with a Makoto Shinkai-style "Your Name" photo filter.
Wulin Xianxia (overseas: Fangsi Wulin)
GAME
Dead
武林闲侠 was a guofeng wuxia-themed idle/placement card RPG developed by Kingsoft's Seasun studio (西山居世游/金山世游) and published by ByteDance's game arm Nuverse (朝夕光年).
Wukong Search
APP
Rebranded
ByteDance's ad-free search app, a Baidu challenger. It never dented Baidu and, in the post-ChatGPT rush, was renamed Xiao Wukong in 2023 and made an AI assistant.
Banciyuan
SVC
Dead
A Chinese fan community for cosplayers, illustrators and fan-fiction writers, launched in 2014. ByteDance bought it in 2018 and shut it in 2023.
TikTok Now
APP
Dead
TikTok Now was TikTok's BeReal clone: at a random time each day it prompted users to capture a simultaneous front-and-back-camera photo or 10-second video of an "authentic" moment.
Fanno
APP
Dead
ByteDance's shopping app selling cheap factory-direct goods to Europe. Closed in 2023 over weak repeat sales, poor quality and slow shipping.
Toutiao Search
APP
Rebranded
ByteDance's web search app, built to challenge Baidu. It never displaced the leader and in 2023 became Youshi, a lifestyle community; web search lives on in Toutiao.
Qimiao Camera
APP
Dead
A ByteDance-owned camera/photo app (Android package com.ss.android.camera). Chinese tech/financial outlets 36Kr and Cailianshe both list it among ByteDance's discarded photo-related apps (alongside uoka有咔, 狸猫相机, Helo), while 轻颜相机 and Faceu激萌 remained operating.
Kuaipai
APP
Dead
快拍 (Kuaipai) was a photo/camera app launched by the team behind ByteDance's cloud photo-album product 时光相册 (Shiguang Album). It was one of several side products (alongside the photo-editor Luna and 时光相册极速版) that the team spun off; it performed poorly and was eventually delisted.
Luna
APP
Dead
Luna was a photo-editing (P图) app launched by the 时光相册 (Shiguang Album / Time Album) team, which became a wholly-owned ByteDance subsidiary after ByteDance acquired 时光相册 (developed by 上海时光无限科技有限公司) in 2017.
Douyin Xiaowo (Douyin Little Nest)
SVC
Dead
A virtual social space launched inside the Douyin app in October 2022, built for the 抖音仔仔 (Douyin Zizai) 3D avatar system.
OpenLanguage
APP
Dead
OpenLanguage (开言英语) is an adult English-learning app built around scenario-based audio dialogues hosted by North American native speakers, originating from founder Jenny's long-running podcast 《潘吉Jenny告诉你》 (started 2012).
Xiaohe Yidian (Xiaohe Medical Encyclopedia)
SVC
Merged
小荷医典 (Xiaohe Yidian) was ByteDance's medical-knowledge / health science-popularization content platform, launched January 30, 2021 by upgrading and rebranding the 百科名医网 (Baike Mingyi) encyclopedia that ByteDance had acquired for ~500M yuan in May 2020.
Mawf
APP
Dead
Mawf was a free machine-learning desktop audio plugin (VST3/AU, macOS-first with Windows promised) from ByteDance that used DDSP-style ML timbre transfer to morph any audio signal or MIDI input into realistic instrument sounds — e.g.
Lingxuan
APP
Dead
灵选 (Lingxuan) was a ByteDance TapTap/WeGame-style mobile game community and distribution app, launched in a closed test on Douyin in late January 2022 with the slogan "灵机一动,选到好游戏." It combined game discovery, reservations, downloads, rankings and user reviews, aiming to become a distribution…
BuzzVideo
APP
Dead
ByteDance's video app, launched in Japan in 2016 and renamed from TopBuzz Video in 2018. TikTok buried it; ByteDance closed it in 2022.
Shiqu
APP
Dead
A ByteDance reading app that dropped its algorithm for human-curated interest circles. Invite-only and slow to grow, it closed eight months after launch.
Pico Worlds
SVC
Dead
轻世界 (Pico Worlds) was a self-developed VR social UGC "metaverse" app announced by ByteDance's Pico at the Pico 4 launch event in September 2022, positioned as China's answer to Meta's Horizon Worlds — users hand-modeled their own 3D worlds, customized avatars across ~26 dimensions, and socialized…
BaBe
APP
Dead
Indonesia's top news app, pulling stories from hundreds of outlets. ByteDance, its owner from 2018, closed it in 2022 and moved users to Helo.
Party Island
APP
Dead
ByteDance's first metaverse-style app, a 3D world where avatars hung out and joined virtual concerts. ByteDance pulled it in 2022 and shut it after cutting the team.
DC Worlds Collide
GAME
Dead
DC superhero mobile RPG from ByteDance's Nuverse. Soft-launched only in Southeast Asia, it closed about five months later and never went global.
Douyin Box
APP
Merged
A fashion shopping app from Douyin's e-commerce arm, a Dewu/Xiaohongshu rival. ByteDance wound it down after ~9 months once Douyin's own shopping made it redundant.
Dali Smart Learning Lamp
HW
Merged
ByteDance's first hardware: a kids' smart desk lamp with a touchscreen and cameras for AI homework help. China's 2021 "double reduction" crackdown sank the line by 2022.
Qingbei Online School
APP
Dead
ByteDance's K-12 live-tutoring app, built from its 2019 buy of Hua Luogeng Online School. China's 2021 "double reduction" ban gutted Dali Education and closed it.
Art of War: Red Tides
GAME
Dead
Multiplayer strategy game from Game Science, later of Black Myth: Wukong, published in China by ByteDance's Nuverse. Its mainland servers closed on 2022-05-31.
Heipayun (HAP)
SVC
Shut down
Heipayun (黑帕云, brand HAP) was a Chinese no-code/low-code platform founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Chen Jinzhou (陈金洲, who earlier founded Jinshuju/金数据) for building enterprise applications without coding.
Sonic at the Olympic Games – Tokyo 2020 (China server)
GAME
Dead
A SEGA-developed mobile game tied to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the only officially licensed Olympic mobile game, published exclusively in mainland China by ByteDance's game brand Nuverse (朝夕光年).
Biao Ren
GAME
Dead
Wuxia mobile RPG from ByteDance's Nuverse, from the comic Blades of the Guardians. It topped China's iOS free chart on launch in 2021, then closed a year later.
Qingbei Xiaoban
SVC
Dead
清北小班 (Qingbei Xiaoban) was a ByteDance/Dali Education K-12 online tutoring app launched in August 2020 that used a small-class (≤25 students) live, interactive teaching model to bring premium Beijing teaching resources to primary and middle school students (Chinese, math, English) in lower-tier…
Dmonstudio
SVC
Dead
Global women's fast-fashion site, widely tied to ByteDance and built to fight SHEIN. It closed abruptly about three months after launch, having won few users.
Pixsoul
APP
Dead
ByteDance's camera app turning selfies into 3D avatars. Launched in Southeast Asia in 2021, it drew little interest; ByteDance dropped it by early 2022.
Xiaoquxing
APP
Dead
小趣星 (Xiaoquxing) was a children's interest/educational short-video app launched by ByteDance's Dali Education unit on ~September 20, 2021, billed as ByteDance's third short-video app after Douyin and Douyin Volcano version.
Dali Smart Eye
HW
Dead
A low-cost (~RMB99) tablet accessory consisting of a support stand plus a reflective mirror that redirects a tablet's front camera to read materials on the desk.
If Yooou
SVC
Dead
If Yooou was ByteDance's third cross-border fast-fashion attempt: a women's apparel DTC "independent site" (独立站) targeting Europe (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, plus Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Finland), positioned as a low-price/high-service Shein and Temu rival with most items priced roughly…
Songguo Clinic (Pinecone Clinic) / Xiaohe Clinic
SVC
Rebranded
松果门诊 (Songguo / "Pinecone" Clinic) was ByteDance's first brick-and-mortar comprehensive outpatient clinic, opened in Beijing's Zhongguancun in late 2020 under its 极光 (Aurora) health unit.
BeatDynamic
SVC
Dead
BeatDynamic was a music distribution platform that ByteDance was internally testing around January 2021 to pilot its music copyright/distribution business, as part of building an end-to-end music industry chain (playback, distribution, copyright operations) alongside the contemporaneous "Feiyue"…
Dolphin Wealth
APP
Dead
海豚财富 (Dolphin Wealth) was a financial-information / wealth platform in ByteDance's "Dolphin" (海豚) finance product line — the prefix personally chosen by founder Zhang Yiming — alongside the mock-trading app 海豚股票 (Dolphin Stock).
Rules of Survival
GAME
Dead
Mobile battle royale built by NetEase, licensed from Terminator 2. ByteDance's Nuverse ran the mainland version from 2020 until servers closed on 2021-12-29.
Feiliao / Flipchat
APP
Dead
ByteDance's messenger-plus-groups app, its second swing at WeChat. Apple pulled it within two months; it never caught on, and ByteDance killed it in 2021.
TikTok Top Moments
SVC
Dead
TikTok Top Moments was TikTok's first-ever (and only) NFT collection, announced Sep 30, 2021, with the first auction Oct 6, 2021.
Xindong Waimai (Heartbeat Takeout)
SVC
Dead
心动外卖 (Heartbeat Takeout) was ByteDance/Douyin's standalone food-delivery beta, launched as an internal test inside the Douyin app in July 2021 under the slogan "心动外卖,吃你所爱" (Heartbeat Takeout, eat what you love). The mini-program software was copyright-registered (reg. no.
Snapsolve
APP
Dead
ByteDance's photo-homework app for Indian students in grades 6-12. ByteDance closed it in 2021 when it quit India's edtech market.
Duoshan
APP
Merged
ByteDance's Snapchat-style messenger, one of three 2019 apps meant to topple WeChat. Tencent blocked it on day one; ByteDance folded it into Douyin in 2021.
GoGoKid
SVC
Dead
ByteDance's app pairing Chinese children with live North American English teachers, a VIPKid rival. China's 2021 "double reduction" crackdown killed it.
NPY
APP
Shut down
An animated math app teaching logic to kids 3-12 in small live classes. ByteDance bought it in 2020 and shut it in 2021 when "double reduction" outlawed it.
News Republic
APP
Shut down
A French-built global news app drawing on thousands of publishers. Cheetah Mobile then ByteDance owned it; ByteDance quietly closed it in 2021.
Wukong Q&A
APP
Merged
ByteDance's Quora/Zhihu-style Q&A app under Toutiao. Despite ~RMB 1bn in subsidies it never dented Zhihu; ByteDance closed it in 2021 and folded it into Toutiao.
Helo
APP
Banned
ByteDance's social app for India, sharing memes and Bollywood clips in 14-plus languages. India banned it in 2020; ByteDance killed it in 2021 when it quit India.
Haohao Xuexi
APP
Dead
ByteDance's paid-knowledge app for adult self-improvement, a Dedao rival. ByteDance closed it in 2021 after weak sales and no breakout courses.
Smartisan / Nut Phone
HW
Shut down
Chinese smartphone line, born as Luo Yonghao's Smartisan. ByteDance hired the team in 2019 and shipped Douyin phones, then killed it in January 2021 after weak sales.
Smartisan TNT Go
HW
Dead
Smartisan TNT go was a 12-inch 2K (2160x1440, 3:2) ten-point touch portable monitor/"extension notebook" released on Oct 20, 2020 alongside the Jinguo R2 phone, designed to pair with a TNT-OS phone to deliver a large-screen desktop computing experience.
Tangyuan English
APP
Dead
ByteDance's English app pairing a Douyin-style video feed with AI pronunciation scoring. Launched in 2019; China's 2021 "double reduction" crackdown closed it.
Toutiao Insurance
SVC
Merged
ByteDance's online insurance marketplace in Douyin and Toutiao. The 头号保 brand faded around 2021; ByteDance kept the broker license.
Fuxiang Haigou
SVC
Dead
福巷海购 (Fuxiang Haigou) was ByteDance's early cross-border IMPORT e-commerce experiment for Chinese consumers — a "cross-border boutique discount mall" mini-program carrying foreign brands from a dozen-plus countries, embedded inside the Douyin and Toutiao apps.
Jike Big Data
SVC
Dead
极课大数据 was a K-12 in-school big-data precision-teaching platform (its "EI" intelligent education system used image recognition and analytics to manage homework, exams and teaching data across 3,500+ schools reaching 5.7M+ teachers/students/parents).
AI Xue (Ai Study)
SVC
Merged
Ai学 (AI学) is a B-end, in-school AI learning-analytics and adaptive-learning platform — using big data, AI problem-solving and OCR handwriting recognition to provide personalized teaching/learning solutions for education regulators, schools, teachers, students and parents.
Strike Royale
GAME
Cancelled
Strike Royale (火力对决) was a cartoon-style 3v3 MOBA + third-person-shooter hybrid mobile game. It began as 超凡火力 ("Super Fire Force") at studio Shanghe Network (上禾网络); after ByteDance acquired the studio it became a Studio 101 / Nuverse project, was internally renamed 冲击同盟, and ran an overseas…
UOKA - Textured Life Camera
APP
Dead
UOKA (有咔) was a ByteDance AI-filter camera app offering "textured life" filters for food, landscape, portrait and lifestyle scenes, using AI scene-recognition to identify 20+ shooting scenarios and auto-match curated photographer-designed filters.
Manfen
APP
Dead
满分 (Manfen) was a standalone Android consumer-finance app quietly launched by ByteDance on 10 October 2019, offering cash installment loans (up to ~200,000 yuan), consumer credit/installments, and bank co-branded credit cards.
Vigo Video
APP
Dead
ByteDance's overseas app for 15-second clips, built from its Hypstar and Flipagram buys. ByteDance closed it in 2020 and moved users to TikTok.
TopBuzz
APP
Dead
ByteDance's overseas news and video app, the English-language Toutiao. An early pre-TikTok bet, it shut in 2020 as users drained away.
Hudong Baike
SVC
Rebranded
Chinese user-editable encyclopedia, founded 2005 as a Baidu Baike rival. ByteDance bought it in 2019 and rebranded it Douyin Baike.
Huoshan / Douyin Huoshan
APP
Merged
ByteDance's first short-video app, aimed at China's smaller cities with livestreaming and cash rewards. Folded into Douyin in 2020 and renamed Douyin Huoshan Edition.
Caicloud
SVC
Merged
Caicloud was a Hangzhou-based Kubernetes/container cloud-native PaaS startup (founded 2015 by ex-Google engineers, CNCF KCSP-certified) whose products included the Caicloud Compass container platform and Caicloud Clever AI middle platform, serving ~100 large enterprises such as China UnionPay…
Biu Campus
APP
Shut down
Biu校园 was a China-only campus social networking app (launched 2017) offering anonymous posts, confessions, campus circles, and 1v1 real-time quiz battles among university students.
Xincao
APP
Dead
Toutiao's Xiaohongshu-style lifestyle app where users found products but left to buy. ByteDance closed it after a year, having never dented Xiaohongshu.
SBLF
HW
Dead
A techwear fashion brand incubated by Douyin. Launched in summer 2018, it ended soon after for obvious reasons; its Tmall store later switched to selling Douyin merch.
Xintu
APP
Dead
ByteDance's Instagram-style photo community, launched days after Duoshan in 2019. Starved of support, it never caught on; ByteDance pulled it within six months.
Zhidian
APP
Dead
ByteDance's discount shopping app inside Toutiao, built to answer Pinduoduo. Lacking WeChat Pay and group-buying, it flopped; ByteDance pulled it within a year.
Paofu
APP
Dead
ByteDance's women-focused beauty community, built by its acquired studio Bcy. Its first stab at copying Xiaohongshu, it flopped and was pulled within a year.
Jukedeck
SVC
Shut down
Jukedeck was a London-based AI music startup (founded 2012 by Ed Newton-Rex, with Patrick Stobbs) whose flagship product "Jukedeck Make" let users automatically generate royalty-free background music using neural-network-based composition, with customizable genre, mood, instruments, length and…
aiKID
APP
Dead
aiKID was ByteDance's AI-powered online children's English-learning app launched in late 2018. Rather than live tutoring, it played pre-recorded North-American-teacher lessons paired with AI features (adaptive learning, speech recognition, attention modeling, post-class reports) to create a cheaper…
Musical.ly
APP
Merged
The 15-second lip-sync app that defined teen short video before TikTok. ByteDance bought it in 2017 and merged its ~100M users into TikTok in 2018.
Flipagram
APP
Rebranded
A US app for making music videos from photos and clips, an early TikTok forerunner. ByteDance's Toutiao bought it in 2017 and folded it into Vigo Video.
Live.ly
APP
Merged
Musical.ly's live-streaming app for broadcasting video and earning gifts. ByteDance closed it in 2018 and folded the streaming into Musical.ly.
Neihan Duanzi
APP
Banned
ByteDance's very first app (2012, before Toutiao), a hugely popular Chinese joke and meme community. China's regulator shut it for good in 2018 over vulgar content.
Million Hero
SVC
Dead
百万英雄 (Million Hero) was a free, large-scale live-streamed trivia quiz game show launched by ByteDance's Xigua Video in January 2018, riding the early-2018 China live-quiz craze.
VSCENE
SVC
Merged
VSCENE (维境视讯) was a Chinese VR-video startup founded in June 2016 that developed end-to-end VR live-streaming and VOD solutions, including VR video capture/stitching, high-efficiency compression and streaming distribution, with products such as the VliveCam panoramic camera, VLiveStudio software…
Chaoxi Calendar
APP
Shut down
朝夕日历 (Chaoxi Calendar) was a smart, WeChat-integrated social calendar and time-management app that used voice recognition, NLP and AI to help users quickly schedule events and coordinate group time.
MyOtee (international name: FaceQ)
APP
Dead
MyOtee (脸萌) was the viral cartoon-avatar maker by founder Guo Lie's team — users assemble a customized cartoon face from interchangeable parts.
Tuba
APP
Shut down
图吧 (Tuba) was an early Chinese photo-sharing / image community mobile app founded by Zhang Nan (张楠, later Douyin and ByteDance China CEO) in 2013; it reportedly grew to hundreds of thousands of users within months, catching Zhang Yiming's attention.
Neihan Comics / Gaoxiao Jiongtu (early ByteDance single-purpose content apps)
APP
Dead
A cluster of roughly a dozen single-theme content apps that ByteDance launched in its founding year (2012) — each pairing one topic with one content format (e.g.
Limao Camera
APP
Shut down
A Chinese beauty-selfie camera with live smoothing, face-swaps and filters. ByteDance bought it in 2019, then took it offline as one camera too many.
Ripple
APP
Dead
Ripple was a free AI-powered music-creation, composition and audio-editing iOS app from ByteDance, launched as a US invite-only closed beta on June 30, 2023.
Music Help (Yinyuebang)
APP
Dead
音乐帮 (Music Help) was an early ByteDance domestic music streaming prototype reported by Tech星球 (Tech Planet) in October 2019, ByteDance's first signal of entering China's online music market.
Galaxy Ark
SVC
Merged
银河方舟 (Galaxy Ark) was a ByteDance music agent-distribution/aggregation platform that entered closed website-only beta in July 2021, letting record labels and independent musicians upload songs and videos and distribute them across platforms including QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, KuGou, KuWo…
Douyin Monthly Pay
SVC
Rebranded
抖音月付 is ByteDance's "Huabei"-style buy-now-pay-later consumer credit product embedded in the Douyin app, offering an interest-free grace period and 3/6/12-month installments for in-app and Douyin e-commerce purchases.
Beiyong Jin (Petty Cash / Backup Fund)
SVC
Dead
备用金 (Beiyong Jin, "petty cash"/"backup fund") was a small short-term emergency cash-loan product launched by ByteDance on its Toutiao (今日头条) app on 24 July 2020.
ByteAir
SVC
Merged
灵驹 (English name ByteAir) was ByteDance's first B2B productization of its core recommendation algorithm — the same engine behind Toutiao and Douyin — packaged and opened to external enterprises in September 2019 as a customizable enterprise-grade recommendation-as-a-service.